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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Buckinghamshire County Council

A specialist Residential Short Breaks Service for Learning Disabled Young People aged 11 - 19 with Complex Behavioural Needs (to be referred to hereafter as the Vines)

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£1.2m
Awarded7 May 2019
Published22 Jul 2019
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.2mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) is tendering for the provision of a Specialist Residential Short Breaks Service for Learning Disabled Young People aged 11 - 19 with Complex Behavioural Needs.

This will be provided in a specifically designed 6 bedded residential unit that will be leased to the provider from the Local Authority.

The provider will need to demonstrate a high level of skill in delivering a service to young people with high levels of complex needs.

Whilst maintaining the current service delivery the provider will be required to work with Buckinghamshire County Council to optimise service delivery to deliver savings.

The current specialist residential short breaks provision for complex behaviour needs is contracted to an external provider which is due to expire and therefore TUPE may apply.

The contract start date is 1 October 2019.

The contract term is 18 months with the option to extend for up to a further 12 months.

A budget cap has been set at £1,314,507.00 for the initial contract term (18 months).

If your organisation wishes to participate in this process, please register on Buckinghamshire Business Portal and express and interest in this opportunity.

You will be unable to take part of you do not register on the Portal and express an interest in the opportunity.

Link to the Portal http://www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk Tenders must be returned via Buckinghamshire Business Portal.

The tender return deadline is noon 8 May 2019.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The provider will need to demonstrate

The provider will need to demonstrate a high level of skill in delivering a service to young people with high levels of complex needs.

02

Whilst maintaining the current service delivery

Whilst maintaining the current service delivery the provider will be required to work with Buckinghamshire County Council to optimise service delivery to deliver savings.

03

Tenders must be returned via Buckinghamshire Business

Tenders must be returned via Buckinghamshire Business Portal.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

TUPE transferContract conditions
The current specialist residential short breaks provision for complex behaviour needs is contracted to an external provider which is due to expire and therefore TUPE may apply.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Stage
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Source
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Buyer ref
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