Hampshire Carers Support Services (Market Engagement)

Hampshire County Council is intending to procure countywide service provision that provides a range of information, advice and support activities to individuals in a caring role - and also to individuals with Dementia (and those caring for them).

Contracts for the current provision of these services are due to expire at the end of March 2019 and a procurement exercise will be taking place ahead of this to enable new service provision to take effect from April 2019. Service delivery activities under consideration include: • Emergency planning for carers. • Carers advice and information provision (on a generic basis). • Specialist dementia advisor services that provide a mechanism for facilitating access to appropriate care, support, information and advice.

We would like to invite providers to participate in a market engagement event to consider the nature of this future service provision. The event will be taking place on :

Wednesday 6th June 2018, 10am-12pm, in the Chilworth Room, Ground Floor, Hampshire House, 84-98 Southampton Road, Eastleigh, S050 5PA.

Booking Instructions: Please see In-Tend Project : Hampshire Carers Support Service (Market Engagement). The In-Tend Project Reference for this market engagement opportunity is AS12531. Instructions regarding how to use In-Tend can be found at the Council's e-tendering website: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire . We recommend that you refer to the e-tendering guidance for suppliers which can be found by clicking on 'Information for Suppliers' at the top of the In-Tend home page. To view this market engagement opportunity please click on 'Tenders' then 'Current' and then scroll down to the project (AS12531), then click 'View Details' and then 'Express Interest' and follow the on-screen instructions.

If your organisation is not registered on the Hampshire In-tend portal, please go to the website stated above and click on the 'Register' tab (registration is free).

Attendance is limited to two representatives per organisation and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. In the event that the meeting is oversubscribed attendance may have to be limited to 1 representative per organisation. As a result we would recommend places are booked as soon as possible. Booking confirmations, where applicable, will be provided.

In order to book places please confirm your attendance via the Correspondence function on the In Tend project. You must provide the name, job/role title, organisation name, email address and contact telephone number for those you wish to attend from your organisation. Please confirm by the end of Friday 1st June 2018.

Receiving Notification Emails: To ensure you receive email alerts and notifications from our system, please add the email domain `@in-tend.co.uk` to your Safe Senders list.

It is neither the intention nor the purpose of this event to confer any advantage upon its participants in any future procurement process.