P0905 - Birmingham Carers Hub - AWARD

The Council wishes to establish a Contract for the provision Birmingham Carers Hub delivering services for adult carers including mental health carer services. The services will include;

information advice and guidance, advocacy, emergency and planned response services wellbeing assessments and payments, wellbeing breaks, carers cards, specialist dementia

support, health liaison projects, small grants, a transition service for younger adult carers, support for parent carers and statutory carer assessments.

This procurement falls under the Light Touch Regime Design Procedure and the procurement process will be based on a 3 Stage process which may include negotiation). There will be an initial Selection Stage (due diligence assessment), with suppliers failing this stage not taken through to the tender evaluation stage.

The Contract will last for 5 years with the option to extend for a further two years (unless terminated under the terms and conditions of contract).

The contract will be awarded to one lead supplier via a consortium or managed service provider.

The Council will be using its free to use e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and potential suppliers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. If you wish to express an interest in this opportunity please click on the following link to access in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ ↗ and submit your details to register. You will then be sent details on how to log on which will enable you to download all relevant Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation.

Please note TUPE will apply to this contract. The TUPE information will be released to you upon receipt of a signed copy of Appendix 4 - TUPE Confidentiality Agreement. You are advised to fill this in as soon as possible on receipt and return via in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc ↗

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Your completed tender submission should be returned by noon on 27th October 2022 via the 'in-tend' system in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc ↗