The Provision of Home Care and Reablement Services

The City of London Corporation (the City) invites Tenders for the provision of Home Care and Reablement Services which is split into two Lots as follows:

Lot 1: Home Care Services

The Corporation is looking to appoint a primary service provider organisation that will have the skills and capacity to deliver home care services within the City of London Corporation boundary. Service users will have a range of needs, some of which may be more complex as a result of one or more condition, and for whom home care support will be necessary

The estimated total value of this service (including extensions) is circa £1,600,000

Lot 2: Reablement Services

Reablement works with adults who have left hospital or are recovering from a recent illness or injury, providing short-term, intensive support to help with everyday tasks. The service is delivered in the service user's home and focuses on helping them to achieve everyday tasks so independence, health and wellbeing aren't affected in the long term. The reablement offer from the Corporation is for all adult service users coming out of hospital or prevented from being admitted, with reablement potential.

The estimated total value of this service (including extensions) is circa £300,000

The duration of the contract for both Lots is 3 years with an option for two further years at the City's discretion (3+1+1), commencing 1st June 2022.

Additional information: This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system 'CapitaleSourcing' (url:www.capitalesourcing.com). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.

This is a one stage procurement process; therefore, suppliers will need to register an interest on the system and submit a tender submission no later than 12.00 on 17.03.2022 in order to participate.

Tender submissions cannot be uploaded after the return deadline.

The estimated value given at II.2.6) is for the full duration of the contract (including extensions), which is up to £1,900,000 across both lots.

The contracting authority reserves the right at any time to vary the timescales in this notice, cease the procurement process and not award the contract or to award only part of the opportunity described in this notice. If the contracting authority takes up any of these rights then it will not be responsible for, or pay the expenses or losses, which may be incurred by any candidate or tenderer as a result. Economic operators are solely responsible for their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of their tender submissions and all stages throughout the procurement. Under no circumstances will the contracting authority be liable for costs or expense borne by the economic operators.

The Service advertised in this notice fall under the services listed in Annex XIV to Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and the contracting authority is not obliged to follow The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in full. The procurement process that will apply to the Service is specified in the procurement documents accordingly.

Organisations should be aware that due to the contract value (of the Service), any contract formed as a result of this procurement process shall be executed as a deed. Organisations should seek independent legal advice on the implications of this prior to submitting their tender, where appropriate.

Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the Capital eSourcing system.