Extra Care Housing - Care and Support

Contracts

• Contract 027465-2024-18 166-1 · GP Homecare Ltd

  Signed

  10 Jun 2019

  Value

  £8,100,000

  Status

  active

  • Change Extend Lots 2-5 for a further 13 months until 01 September 2025., Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: In July 2023, a decision was made to simplify the tendering process for external Adult Social Care (ASC) providers. It is planned to develop a single set of Contract Terms and Conditions covering all ASC care provision to include Accommodation with Care, Care at Home, Complex Care and Extra Care Housing (Care and Support). As a result of this plan, there is a need to: • develop the overarching documents in time for the recommissioning of Extra Care Housing (Care and Support), Care at Home and Accommodation with Care. Under the current timeline there will not be sufficient time to undertake the development of these documents to ensure that all ASC contracts are covered robustly, especially as the contract term will be for 5 + 2 years. • ensure that the above documents are developed with full integration between Health and Social Care in mind. This will ensure that those individuals moving between linked Health and Social Care services can do so seamlessly and the providers that support them adhere to the same terms and conditions as far as possible. • Work with Small Medium Enterprises (SME's) as they require more comprehensive support in relation to tendering for Public Sector contracts. Therefore, an external organisation has been found who will support all providers (especially SME's) through the procurement process. CEC need to find £3,500 of funding to pay for this support, and this is ongoing. More time is required to secure the funding and implement the training and support for providers to enable all providers to have the skills to tender for the contracts. Given the unprecedented challenges the social care section as a whole continues to experience, it would be unfair and unrealistic to expect providers to be able to submit an informed/successful tender application with these skills and knowledge. • Amalgamate and optimise the consultation and engagement with providers and those who use the services, enabling each of the services to work collaboratively. A range of activities is planned to inform the procurement and wider transformation planning. • Provide more extensive engagement with people who use services, carers and providers. This will include (easy read) surveys, engagement sessions and face-to-face meetings. Aligning the Accommodation with Care, Care at Home, Extra Care Housing (Care and Support) and Complex Care contracts is intended to provide a clearer environment for the Council to work with the care market to overcome the above challenges and work on a transformation plan to create sustainable improvements in the overall care market picture across the Borough. Without implementing this modification the Council would struggle to satisfy its statutory duties in relation to meeting the needs of extra care residents who have an assessed need for care and support. Whilst alternative provision has been considered, it could be extremely disruptive to the residents in receipt of care and support from the current provider. The current provider is very experienced in working within extra care housing schemes and this experience would be difficult to replicate within the timescales of the modified contract. Recommissioning the existing contract was also considered but the importance of aligning the Extra Care Contract with the Accommodation with Care, Care at Home and Complex care contracts and realising the potential benefits of doing this made this option unattractive.

Dispute resolution & review bodies

• Royal Courts of Justice (High Courts)Review body London