Market Engagement Event (Rescheduled) - Dudley Disability Service Complex Needs Project

Dear Providers,

Following on from our initial engagement in October 2018, where Dudley Council held an event to bring together: Service Users, Families, Providers and other Stakeholders to gather ideas and to develop services that will be delivered in an innovative way to support people with complex needs. We are pleased to announce we are about to commence a tender process in July 2019. We would like to invite potential providers to meet with the Commissioning Team to give us the opportunity to update you and for a questions and answers session regarding this tender project.

Information Dudley MBC are inviting providers with proven experience and specialism in providing domiciliary care and supported living services to people with a learning disability and complex needs. We are particularly keen for as many organisations to attend who may be interested in this tender and who have worked innovatively with people with complex needs and can demonstrate how this has made a meaningful improvement in people's lives.

The service will be tendered in co-production with all stakeholders and will include 'Competitive Dialogue' as part of the tender process. This is an opportunity for inspired innovative organisations to work with Dudley, developing new and exciting ways to meet our customer's individual ambitions and goals. This may include different payment mechanisms, contract durations and other flexible arrangements.

There is approximately 2700 care and support hours per week for 21 people with learning disabilities and complex needs. The procurement will be separated into lots that can be broadly categorised as`:

o Complex Needs and Challenging Behaviour o Complex Physical Health Needs and Profound Learning Disabilities

The services operate from different locations in the Dudley borough, mainly clustered in locations Brierley Hill and Wall Heath with a few people dispersed in the community.

Details of the Market Engagement Event:

Date: Thursday 11th July 2019 Time: 10.00am - 12 noon Venue: The Dudley Archives, Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SQ

Contact: [email protected] **Please confirm the number of places required, the attendee's Names, the Company Name and Location, Contact Number and Email Address.

**We are aware that this is short notice (we do apologise as the previous market engagement was rescheduled due to ill health) and we would appreciate at your earliest opportunity if you could confirm your attendance. This will give us an indication of the interest and attendance numbers**.

We look forward to meeting you all.

Additional information: Organisations will need to confirm their attendance for this Market Engagement Event Day.

Please email Hannah Forrest at: Hannah [email protected] confirming your attendance and the following:

Your name / names of attendees, contact details, the name of your organisation and the number of people that will be attending on the day from your organisation.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No Registration on to the Dudley Black Country Business Website

The Tender process for this contract will be completed electronically via the Dudley Council in-house e-procurement system 'Intend', therefore providers that are interested in taking part will need to register on the: 'Dudley Black Country Business Website' via this link: http://www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk/Dudley.aspx

Once the tender documents are published providers will be notified automatically electronically. Providers can then login and access the tender documents.

If you are already registered please check / update your contact details.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No