The Help to Live at Home Open Framework has been developed by Hampshire County Council (The Council), in conjunction with The Council's partners (the 5 Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's), current providers of Homecare services), to help meet the challenges of providing Adults' home-care services over the next 5-7 years. It is an opportunity for providers to work with The Council and CCG's to develop these services in Hampshire moving forward.
The Open framework has been set up to be used for personal care and support services by both the Council and the CCG's. The services under the Open Framework cover the Council's domiciliary care requirements (including the replacement of the Care at Home service), reablement services (currently contracted as REACT), the care element of extra care and the CCGs Continuing Healthcare requirements. This is not a comprehensive list and the Open Framework will be flexible to capture emerging requirements throughout it's lifetime.
The Open Framework is a multiple stage process conducted under the ‘light touch regime’ (details of the light touch regime can be found in section VI.3) of this notice). The first stage for Providers interested in delivering work through this Open Framework is to register with In-Tend as detailed in section VI.3 and then complete an enrolment questionnaire. The enrolment questionnaire will require providers to submit details relating to their organisation which will be assessed by the Council and successful providers will be admitted onto the Open Framework. The Open framework will always be open meaning that providers can apply at any time and providers who have previously been unsuccessful may re-apply once they have taken any corrective action..
Being accepted onto the Open Framework is no guarantee of work, but will allow providers to view and tender for Call-Off contracts for both The Council and the CCG's. Call-off contracts may be available at any point during the life of the Open Framework and will only be available for those providers on the Open Framework. Specific details for individual services will be published at call-off stage, this will include pricing, contract length, specification and call-off terms and conditions. Tenders submitted at call-off stage will be assessed against appropriate criteria relating to how the provider will deliver the specific opportunity. Call-Offs terms and conditions will take precedent over the Open Framework terms and conditions.
Some of the services likely to be called-off the Open Framework are detailed in the short description however the Open Framework will be flexible to accommodate emerging requirements as well.
Services called off this Open Framework will require CQC registration for Personal Care.
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Social work and related services
Hampshire County Council have taken the decision to explore the idea of seeking organisations to deliver domiciliary care services, commencing April 2018. The objective will be to both build on the successes of our current arrangements under Care at Home and apply, where applicable, lessons learnt by the Council into any new arrangements.
Any future partners would be expected to:
— Deliver services across the County Council area
— Work with the Council to shape our domiciliary care services
— Engage with the Council to accept new clients
— Potentially to cover;
- zonally based services
- specialist domiciliary care services
- domiciliary care services that complement other existing services
- Re-ablement services
- out of hours domiciliary services
— this opportunity may include the requirements of the NHS
— Provide and/or subcontract for the above
This list is not exhaustive and may be amended or include other elements as a result of broader market engagement.
The Council is currently exploring it's options regarding the best route to market, including considering the use of lots to meet the requirements. As such the Council can not confirm if the contract will contain lots at this point. Details will be confirmed in the contract notice when the opportunity is advertised.
