Short-term residential care and enhanced support for people with Learning Disabilities / Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Lancashire and South Cumbria (LSC) Transforming Care Partnership (TCP) is one of 48 TCPs across England tasked with re-shaping local services in line with the national plan, Building the Right Support.

Our aim is to achieve the Transforming Care Programme as well as deliver wider oversight, service development and improvements for people in Lancashire and South Cumbria with a Learning Disability and / or Autism.

Aims and objectives of service:

This community service provision is one component offered from within the pathway for people with learning disabilities and learning disabilities with autism. It has two primary aims:

With a key focus on recovery & overall wellbeing, this service will support people at an appropriate time through effective assessment & short-term interventions (i.e. fewer than 8-12 weeks) that will enable them avoid hospital admission to remain in the community and live well. There may be exceptions to the length of stay given individual circumstances. Where this is considered appropriate, it will form part of a multi-agency discussion, & be agreed & documented by all parties beforehand.

This means that people who use the service can expect to leave having received the following care and support options:

There may be exceptions to the length of stay, however where this is the case, this will form part of a multi-agency discussion, and be agreed by all parties.

Service description/care pathway

This accommodation service will be available 24 hours a day with an underlying objective to support people and enable them to return home as quickly as possible with ongoing support where needed.

The service will offer a therapeutic and robust environment in which person-centred assessments and care plans can be developed that address the root cause of the presenting issue.

The service will be provided from single-occupancy, self-contained accommodation

There is an expectation that the service will work with the individual MDT and follow the directions of the NHS professionals involved to plan for discharge on admission.

Providers are requested to email to mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net to register their interest. Deadline Friday 21st February 2020 12:00pm

Indicative Contract TValue

Contract Duration (1+1 year)

Anticipated patient placement value:£125,000-£175,000 Expected requirement for maximum occupancy rate of 8 placements

Additional information: This procurement is for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made

Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made

The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.

The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents.

As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.

Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.

The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.

Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.