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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Blackpool Council

Step Up/Step Down Service

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£1.0m
Awarded21 Sept 2017
Published8 Dec 2017
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.0mtotal 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

Blackpool Council is looking to appoint a single supplier to provide specialist care and support for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, who display behaviour that challenges, including those with a mental health condition, following an inpatient stay.

The Council has developed a suitable property within Blackpool, with the intention of establishing a step up/step down service for up to four people with a learning disability and/or autism who are currently placed out of area in either low secure or specialist placements.

This facility will offer individuals appropriate levels of care or therapeutic support to enable them to live well and access their local communities.

It is anticipated that the contract term will be from 27 November 2017 to 26 November 2019, with the option to extend incrementally for a period of three years (2 + 1 years) (subject to contract review and budget availability).

The procurement is conducted under the arrangements for Light Touch procurements.

It is a restricted 2 stage process, which has included principles from the negotiated procedure, in that suppliers may be invited to submit a final tender.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Blackpool Council is looking to appoint

Blackpool Council is looking to appoint a single supplier to provide specialist care and support for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, who display behaviour that challenges, including those with a mental health condition, following an inpatient stay.

02

This facility will offer individuals appropriate levels

This facility will offer individuals appropriate levels of care or therapeutic support to enable them to live well and access their local communities.

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Source & provenance
OCID
c2a15143-3c59-4eb2-9f88-be1c004e6543
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
BLACK001-DN293887-57315660
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