LPS Care - Living Well at Home PDPS - LCC15131

Living Well at Home

Lancashire County Council is establishing a Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (PDPS), "the Living Well at Home PDPS" to enable the purchase of various Services for adults.

Summary of the Living Well at Home PDPS

The aim of the Living Well at Home PDPS is to support the delivery of the Authority's vision to enable Individual's to live as independently and healthily as possible. It will provide Individuals and their informal carers with the right level of care and support with prevention, early intervention, and the promotion of independence.

The Services have been divided into the following Lots:

Lot 1 - Regulated Care Services by the Care Quality Commissioner Lot 1a - Short Term Care at Home Lot 1b - Homecare Services Lot 1c - Extra Care Services Lot 2 - Non-Regulated Support Services Please see procurement documents below for more information.

Applicants are invited to apply for all or any of the Lots, there are no restrictions on the number of Lots that Applicants apply for, however the Applicant must ensure they meet the relevant Core and Lot Specification(s) for the Lot they choose to apply for. Additionally, the Applicant needs to ensure they have the resources available to carry out work in their chosen Lot(s).

The Living Well at Home PDPS will be an open arrangement with no restrictions on the number of Service Providers who can be awarded a place on the PDPS. There will be an initial application phase to award places on the Living Well at Home PDPS within the Lots. Please see procurement documents below for details.

Following the initial application phase (Round 1), the PDPS will reopen, and evaluations of new Applications will be held annually approximately between May and September of each year. The Authority reserves the right to evaluate new Applications sooner and/or amend the evaluation dates. Evaluation dates will be published on the Authority's e-tendering portal as a message or any other format which the Authority stipulates.

This Living Well at Home PDPS Agreement is for use by each of the Contracting Bodies identified in the contract notice.

Lancashire County Council NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) Blackburn with Darwen Council

Tender Briefing

Interested care and support providers are invited to attend a Tender Briefing, please see details below.

The Authority is offering a briefing for Applicants. All interested care and support providers are recommended to attend.

Monday 17th April 10.30am-12pm Virtual Teams Meeting

Please confirm who will be representing your organisation (name and status) by registering a place via email to [email protected] using ref: Living Well at Home Tender Briefing.

Additional information: How to Apply To participate and join the Living Well at Home PDPS, please read all documents listed below. Applicants must complete all the required documents (as stated in the ITP) and must be returned via Oracle Fusion:

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/fusion-supplier-portal/ under LCC15131.

You must also check Oracle Fusion on a regular basis for 'messaging function', this will provide a log of any clarification questions raised by Applicants and the Authority's responses.

All aspects (documents/attachments/responses) of the application can and must be submitted via Oracle Fusion. The Authority will not accept email or hard copy/paper applications in relation to this process and you must submit your application electronically via Oracle Fusion.

All instructions on how to apply to join the Living Well at Home PDPS, evaluation criteria, terms and conditions and documents to be returned can be downloaded from the list of documents below. Please check the e-tendering portal on a regular basis.

You can access the e-tendering portal and access other useful information in relation to the e-tendering portal via the LCC website:

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/fusion-supplier-portal/