Supported housing for families

Portsmouth City Council ('the council') is inviting tenders from suitably qualified suppliers to provide a comprehensive and flexible family support service for families across a range of accommodation settings and tenures. The Service shall provide housing-related and parenting support to families who may be at risk of homelessness, with the overall aim of developing essential living skills, resilience and increasing independence.

The Council currently has three contracts in place for the provision of tenancy-related support for families. A decision has been made to tender for a new, comprehensive service which will bring all commissioned family support provision together under one contract with a single provider.

Portsmouth City Council requires a range of accommodation-based and dispersed floating support services to meet the needs of vulnerable families in the city who may be homeless, threatened with homelessness or in significant need of accommodation with additional support. The service will comprise of;

• oElement 1: Accommodation-based support for families with significant support needs (minimum 45 units)
• oElement 2: Dispersed tenancy support for families living in Local Authority sublet tenancies (minimum 32 units)
• oElement 3: Floating family support for families in other housing tenures (minimum 14 units)

An organisation wishing to bid for this contract will need to be able to evidence it can provide accommodation which meets the requirements of element 1 of the Service and the provision of accommodation-based support. Portsmouth Churches Housing Association currently provides 24 units of accommodation across two locations in the city for use as family supported housing under the existing service arrangements. These units are available for use under this new contract should providers wish to use them. Portsmouth City Council will provide local authority housing stock for use by the provider to accommodate families with supported sublet tenancies.

This contract is being tendered under two lots. Tenderers can bid under both lots and indicate a preference.

• oLot 1: 3-year initial term with the provision to extend for 5 further years up to a maximum term of 8 years
• oLot 2: 5-year initial term with the provision to extend for 3 further years up to a maximum term of 8 years

Whilst it is the council's preference to award from lot 1 the council will consider a longer initial term under lot 2 where additional benefits can be realised. The Council reserves the right to award under either lot.

The estimated value of the contract is ?631,200 per annum, ?5,049,600 over the maximum 8-year term.

Tenderers will have the option to request 1-2-1 clarification meetings with the council, time has been set aside w/c 28 Mar 2022 for these meetings and is expected that they will take place via Teams.

Tenderers will need to request these meeting via the correspondence function on Intend g...

Additional information:

Portsmouth City Council is currently in the process of seeking expressions of interest for the following project - Supported housing for families.

The full details and ability to express an interest will be via our e-sourcing system Intend. This filepath will take you to the relevant area of Intend,

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/portsmouthcc/aspx/Tenders/Current

Once on the page you can either scroll down or use the search function to find the relevant project.

Should you have any problems with the above link, please contact us on 023 9268 8235 or email: procurement@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : Yes