Tender for Strategic Partner: Delivery of Residential and Nursing Care in Gloucestershire County Council Estate.

Descriptions

Gloucestershire County Council are seeking interest from suitably qualified tenders from the market to enter into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) for the delivery of Residential and Nursing care services. The Procurement is being run by the Council on behalf of itself. The Council will act as the sole lead organisation throughout the Procurement and for management of the Contract.

The ITT has been developed to achieve the selection of a single provider to enter into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) (referred to as the "Contract" throughout this ITT) for the delivery of residential and nursing services at Council homes (the "Services").

The Council is using the competitive flexible procedure under S20(2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023. For the purposes of the Procurement Act 2023, the Contract is a Light Touch Contract; as such, the Council is only bound by the Procurement Act 2023 to the extent that it regulates Light Touch Contracts.

This Procurement provides for:

a) the selection of Suppliers to submit an Initial Supplier based on the conditions of participation as set out in the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (see Appendix H) such that only those Suppliers who meet the conditions of participation are invited to respond to the Invitation to Submit an Initial Tender (ISIT);

b) an intermediate stage involving the submission of a response to the ISIT, evaluation of all responses and only those three Suppliers whose responses to ISIT achieve the highest scores proceeding to the next stages of the Procurement;

c) a dialogue stage with the same three top-scoring Suppliers to discuss approaches the specific aspects of the requirement such as the staffing mix, governance arrangements and pricing;

d) a final stage involving the submission of a Final Tender in response to the Invitation to Submit Final Tenders (ISFT), evaluation of all responses to the ISFT and the award of the Contract to the Supplier whose Final Tender achieves the highest score.