Provision of Floating Support for adults with Mental Health problems living in their own homes.

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DescriptionCity of Cardiff Council seeks to appoint a provider to deliver a Floating Support Service to individuals with Mental Health problems living in their own homes.The Mental Health Floating Support project is committed to providing a better quality of life to adults with mental health problems, to live independently in the community within their own homes. The Flexible Floating Support is intended to reduce the risk of hospital admissions and institutional care while assisting people to maintain a stable home in the community. The Floating Support project can compliment but does not replace personal care or other statutory services.City of Cardiff Council’s Health & Social Care Directorate has undertaken an Achieving Better Outcomes (ABO) project to review of the range of commissioned community care provision for adults with mental health problems and identified a gap for move on provision within the current services.The directorate currently procures circa 130 placements in 24 hour care settings which provide a highly valued service for people with critical social care needs. These services work in partnership with the local Community Mental Health teams by providing rehabilitative interventions to enable independent living skills and maintaining safety in the community. However, the ABO project observed that people were prevented from moving on from 24 hour care because a lack of specialist and flexible provision to support people through the transition into their own homes and to maintain their independence within the community.City of Cardiff Council recognises the essential role it has in providing alternative housing options for people with Mental Health problems that enable individuals to live full and active lives within their local communities. The Strategy for people with Mental health sets out a number of key commissioning intentions for Adult Health and Social Care which include a user-led approach to increasing citizen support, offering choice, and avoiding need for specialised care through the development of more responsive universal services. The proposed Floating Support project also meet the aims of the City of Cardiff Council:- ensuring people have access to a range of services and options which maximise their independence and choice of tenure;- making best use of the resources available to ensure accommodation and support services offer quality outcomes and value for money; and- ensuring activity is reflective of what people say they need and wantThe project aims to develop support options that meet people’s needs and aspirations including:(a) enabling individuals to make decisions relating to their own lives and providing information, support and assistance where needed;(b) providing opportunity for greater access to facilities and services, in particular those that maintain the physical wellbeing;(c) providing individuals with a home of their own in safe and secure non institutional environments;(d) meeting an individual’s specific needs whilst maximizing the use of mainstream resources;(e) Working in partnership with housing providers to provide mainstream, flexible housing options that allow people to be part of their community.City of Cardiff Council is therefore seeking the appointment of a provider to deliver specialist recovery focussed floating support to up to 20 service users that is inline with the individual service user’s identified need. The support required by each service user will vary but it will include support to manage their accommodation; to live within the community and access community activities and facilities and to maintain good links with the local multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Teams to ensure that the needs of the service user are met.Bidders should note that Cardiff Council requires one contractor to provide the service. Cardiff Council welcomes bids from all tendering organisations, including consortia, lead contractor organisations and sole tenderers.Additional InformationWe will evaluate the provider’s ability to meet minimum selection criteria, such as insurance, financial standing, past experience, equalities and health & safety record, and to satisfactorily deliver the requirements of the service specification.To express an interest and download the tender documents for this opportunity, please go to the Council's e-tendering website http://appswales.alito.co.uk and if you are not already registered, please complete the free registration process ensuring that you select Cardiff and the category code SA08 – Domiciliary Care Services.Once you have registered, please go to tender “10531CCC: Provision of Floating Support for adults with Mental Health problems living in their own homes” and express an interest. You will then be able to download the documentation.Please ensure that you read the tender documents carefully in order to be aware of the requirements of the process and all the relevant deadlines.***** Tender Documentation can only be accessed through the Website ***The services being procured fall within Part B of the Procurement Regulations and, as such, the Procurement Regulations only apply in part to this procurement. Accordingly tenderers should note that the Council has chosen voluntarily to issue an OJEU Notice and for the avoidance of doubt this action shall not give rise to any further obligations other than those applicable to Part B services.Given this is a voluntary OJEU notice, bidders should note that all dates relating to the process are subject to change. The Council will use a fair, transparent and proportionate procedure with timescales and processes chosen by the Council. For the avoidance of doubt the Council will not be bound by and statutory time limits as this is a contract opportunity which for the purposes of the Public Contracts regulations is a Part B Service, and therefore not subject to the full extend of the Public Contract Regulations (as amended) is not required to be tendered under the Public Contract Regulations (as amended) and accordingly the Council is only obliged to comply with those parts of the Regulations (as amended) which apply to Part B Services.The Council reserves the right to award all, part or none of the business forming the subject matter of this procurement and to abandon, halt, postpone this procurement at any time. Under no circumstances will the Council incur any liability (including, but not limited to, liability as to costs) in respect of this procurement exercise, the abandonment of the same, or any documentation issued as part of this procurement exercise.Lodging of AppealsThe Authority will incorporate the mandatory standstill period as directed by the Public Contracts Regulation 32 (1) to 32 (2A) and send the award decision notice which will include: the award criteria, the reasons for the decision including the characteristics and relative advantages of the successful winner; the recipient of the notice and any reasons why the recipient did not meet the technical specification; the name of the party to be awarded the Contract, and a precise statement of when the standstill period is expected to end, including any reasons that it may not end when envisaged. Applicants will have the duration of the standstill period to ask further questions or bring proceedings. Such information should be sought from the contact named in Section 1.1 of this notice. The Authority is now automatically obliged to refrain from entering into a Contract when proceedings are brought in respect of the award decision and the Contract has not been entered into or the framework concluded. The Contractor must serve the legal claim form on the contracting authority (in acc or dance with rules of court) that represents the formal trigger for the Authority to suspend the Contract-making. The automatic suspension remains in force until either the court terminates the suspension or the proceedings come to an end.