Official UK procurement notice
Open Age Older People’s Preventative Services
Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Integrated Commissioning Department of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster (the Authorities) have awarded two contracts to Open Age for the provision of a Bi-borough Older People's Preventative Service. The first contract will cover services delivered within the City of Westminster and the second will cover services delivered within Kensington & Chelsea.
CPV: Physical well-being services · Residential health facilities services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The main outcomes for the bi-borough preventive service are to:Awarded
The main outcomes for the bi-borough preventive service are to:
- Keep older residents healthy and independent
- Reduce loneliness and isolation
- Deliver services in a way to suit resident needs
- Ensure quality
- Meet increasingly complex needs
Open Age will deliver on the objectives and outcomes outlined above through the provision of a broad range of high-quality group activities. These will be positioned at the early stages of prevention and aimed at those older people who do not currently have high levels of health or care needs, or significant cognitive decline. Activities will be required to be easily accessible to all through a combination of dedicated older people’s spaces, operate in a wide variety of community settings, and offer a remote (telephone and on-line) delivery strand.
Open Age will also provide support to target harder to reach groups or those who may need additional support to access the service. Open Age will work with Health, Social Care, voluntary sector providers and other partners to ensure easy referral routes into and out of the service.
Each contract will be for an initial period of 18 months, with the option to extend for a further 6 month period. During this term, services will be redesigned following significant changes caused by the pandemic, and a competitive procurement exercise will be undertaken for future service provision which continues to meet the needs of residents.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Jul 2021, 22:45 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Jul 2021, 22:45 BST
- Authority reference
prj_WCC_18116- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-017136- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ca5eFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
A service review was carried out in 2019 with the intention to conduct a procurement exercise for services commencing 1st April 2021. These services required Open Age to deliver a range of face to face services in addition to a tele-befriending service, however due to restrictions imposed by the pandemic these were no longer suitable options. Instead commissioners worked with Open Age to develop a hybrid model to ensure continuity of services within government guidelines.
There were also capacity issues with a number of providers likely to bid. Continuing with a procurement exercise would have put increased pressure on a number of local providers when responding to the pandemic and a procurement exercise.
During this extension period, commissioners will work to understand the lessons learned from the pandemic, and how newly commissioned services can continue to reduce health inequalities accentuated by the pandemic and associated lockdowns, and demand on ASC and PH services. The intention is to update the service review previously completed and redesign services across the Older People’s Preventative portfolio. Findings from this exercise will inform the procurement strategy and approach taken to reprocuring older people’s preventative services within The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and the City of Westminster in the most streamlined and cost effective way. The updated service review will consider various options for service design such as borough-specific models, bi-borough models, targeted vs more generic models, and the integration of services across the Older People’s Preventative portfolio. Following this a competitive procurement exercise will be carried out.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open AgeSMEOpen Age Older People’s Preventative Services - RBKC Contract | £698,326 † | — | Awarded |
| Open AgeSMEOpen Age Older People’s Preventative Services - WCC Contract | £435,572 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- The Royal Borough of Kensington and ChelseaContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of JusticeReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Open AgeAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.