Highlights
- 34 New Opportunties
- Potential Total Contract Value Available of £970m
- 25 Council Opportunities
- 8 NHS Opportunities
Top Council Framework
- Commissioner – Staffordshire County Council
- Service – Home Care including Carers Home Based Respite Services in Staffordshire
- Contract Value – £163.2m to £506m
- Contract Start – 1 September 2021
- Contract End – 31 August 2028
- Deadline Date -26 February 2021
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The Council are commissioning Care in the home services including a Carers home and community respite service across Staffordshire for Carers who have been assessed as having Support needs.
Respite Care and support enables Carers to take a break from their caring role and evidence suggests that this can help to achieve positive health, wellbeing and quality of life outcomes for Carers. Fewer Carers experienced mental health problems if they had taken a break since beginning their caring role.
The purpose of Care in the home and Carers home and community respite Services are to enable Service Users to remain in their own homes, living as independently as possible and to achieve and maintain their autonomy, independence, personal identity and assessed outcomes.
Top NHS Framework
- Commissioner – NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
- Service – Provision of Community Audiology Services
- Contract Value -£28,390,375
- Contract Start – 1 September 2021
- Contract End – 31 August 2026
- Deadline Date – 2 March 2021
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The broad outcomes required of the service are specified below:
• Increased choice and control as to where and when their treatment is delivered
• Personalised care;
• Timely access
• Benefits from chosen interventions.
• Reduction in communication difficulties due to poor hearing;
• Timely direct referral or signposting to other local;
• Direct onward referral to secondary care as appropriate
• Clear guidance and information for patients and their families
• Choice of hearing intervention;
• High levels of satisfaction when accessing the service;
The aim is to provide a comprehensive and seamless service for adults experiencing hearing and communication difficulties where they might benefit from hearing assessment and rehabilitation including the option of trying hearing aids with aftercare and support.
The vision for people with hearing problems is for them to receive high quality, efficient services aligned to their social and psychological needs, delivered closer to home, with short waiting times and high responsiveness to the needs of local communities, free at the point of access.
Top Single Supplier Council Opportunity
- Commissioner – City of York Council
- Service – Lowfield Green Extra Care Housing Scheme
- Contract Value – £28.4m
- Contract Start – 15 December 2021
- Contract End – 13 December 2030
- Deadline Date – 22 February 20201
- Link
The procurement of a developer/operator to construct and operate an extra care housing development on the Lowfield Green site in York, North Yorkshire and to provide extra care accommodation support on the land provided by City of York Council.
Top Single Supplier NHS Opportunity
- Commissioner – NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
- Service – Online Counselling Services for 11-18 Year Olds in NHS Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland
- Contract Value – £700k
- Contract Start – 1 June 2021
- Contract End – 31 May 2026
- Deadline Date – 17 February 2021
- Link
The online counselling service will provide children and young people (C&YP) from the ages 11-18 years old resident and registered with a GP in Leicestershire County, Leicester City and Rutland who are experiencing emotional and or mental wellbeing/ mental health issues with direct access to friendly safe information, support and advice, including:
• access to web chat,
• one to one chat sessions,
• email correspondence,
• Easy to use website for information and articles,
• An online one-to-one counselling service which is delivered via instant messaging,
• live chat session with trained counsellors according to each client’s needs in an age-appropriate way,
• a secondary intervention of signposting to other local and national agencies for ongoing support, advice and information to address client’s needs.
An Interesting New Opportunity
- Commissioner – Strategic Crime Intelligence, Security and Welfare in the Southern Region
- Service – Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
- Contract Value – £3.4m to £32.5m
- Contract Start – 5 July 2021
- Contract End – 4 July 2025
- Deadline Date – 19 February 2021
- Link
Lot 1 – Lineside Services:
Encompasses predominantly mobile security operatives patrolling a defined geographical area to achieve and provide the following:
– Deter crime, trespass and reduce anti-social behaviour on and around Network Rail infrastructure
– Identify potentially suicidal persons and make interventions
– Assist other parties (TOCs, BTP etc)
– Assist with major incident response
– Provide support to other stakeholders in joint operations and major incident response
– Support railway staff in keeping the infrastructure and railway environment safe and secure
Lot 2 – Stations Services:
Encompasses predominantly static welfare officers located on railway station platforms to achieve and provide the following:
– Identify potentially suicidal persons and make interventions
– Assist with disorderly persons on the railway
– Reduce acts of anti-social behaviour
– Respond to potential acts of trespass
– Potential to deliver an enhanced customer service experience at stations.
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