CBC-1111-T-BA Supply of domestic furniture and appliances to promote independent living

Local Welfare Provision is provided in Central Bedfordshire for the purpose of assisting vulnerable people in meeting their needs for subsistence where they are unable to meet their immediate short-term needs or where they require assistance to maintain their independence within the community. Leaving Care Grants are also provided by Children's Services to assist young people to live independently is to ensure all of our children and young people in Central Bedfordshire are happy, safe and healthy. A significant element of both schemes is to provide essential domestic furniture and appliances.

Council owned and managed Independent Living schemes offer the independence, privacy and security of self-contained units both on a long term and transitional basis. Domestic furniture and appliances are required from time to time to maintain our services within our schemes and for eligible customers in need of assistance.

Central Bedfordshire Council wish to appoint a supplier(s) to provide domestic furniture and appliances and to support an individual into independent living or to prevent an individual from falling out of independent living. Due to the nature of this service we operate to short timescales. Suppliers must be able to achieve these and be willing to assist with the occasional emergency situation.

The services that we wish to procure are divided into two lots. Prospective providers are invited to tender for one or both lots. Tenders for lots one and two will be evaluated separately.

Lot 1 - Furniture Lot 2 - Appliances

It is anticipated that the contract will start in June 2020, and is for a period of 2 years, plus the option of an extension of up to one year.

Please see the tender documents and specification for full details of this project.

Help and Support - The Council will provide as much support and information as it can to help guide you though the Tender process. Questions asked together with the response, will be made available to all firms quoting, to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all. If there is anything you are not sure of or need clarification of, then please contact us using the correspondence facility within the In-tend system.

Please review the 'Clarification' tab for any update or responses to any questions raised.

Deadline for Expressions of interest and availability of downloading documents 10th March 2020.

Please ensure that you inform us of your decision to participate. To submit a response, you will be required to Opt In.

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Additional information:

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Please note that once you have registered on In-tend a separate action (expressing an Interest) is required to access the documents, you must click on the actual Tender you wish to access. We accept no liability if you have not expressed an interest in the tender.

Please ensure that you inform us of your decision to participate. To submit a response, you will be required to Opt In.

Opt In- This will confirm to us of your involvement and your intention to submit a return.

Opt Out- This will confirm to us that you are not submitting a return. You will be able to provide a reason as to your decision and have the option to cease any system-generated communication. You will be able to opt back in at any point.

Once you are logged in to the system, tender documents can be accessed from the "My Tenders" area of the website.

Please allow sufficient time to make a return via the system; late returns will not be accepted and the system will automatically prevent returns after the deadline time.

Any questions should be raised via the correspondence facility

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No