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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Provision of Independant Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS)

HealthcareCPV 85000000 98000000
Value£224k
Awarded5 Nov 2018
Published11 Jan 2019
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£224ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (the Council) is looking to recommission it's contract for delivery of an Independent Complaints and Advocacy Service (ICAS).

In 2013 responsibility for the provision of an independent advocacy service became the responsibility of individual local authorities.

This contract is funded directly by the NHS.

In addition to the ICAS service Barnsley has two other advocacy services, commissioned under a separate contract specifically; • Statutory Independent Mental Health Advocacy and Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy service for qualifying people; and • General Adults Advocacy service.

This ICAS Service is not commissioned to operate a general advocacy service and is required to sign-post to and work with providers of the services detailed above.

This ICAS service is required to develop close working relationships with other similar local services to support the development of pathways and improve customer journeys.

Please visit https://www.yortender.co.uk for more information.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This ICAS Service is not commissioned

This ICAS Service is not commissioned to operate a general advocacy service and is required to sign-post to and work with providers of the services detailed above.

02

This ICAS service is required to develop

This ICAS service is required to develop close working relationships with other similar local services to support the development of pathways and improve customer journeys.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
NPSBARNS001-DN357522-03681548
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