London Borough of Haringey (‘Haringey’) is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to procure and commission accommodation based supported living service for vulnerable adults in the borough.
Haringey invites suitably qualified suppliers of supported living services to submit a request to participate in the DPS, for the provision of the range of services to over 18 service users. This will cover provision of services to users with physical disabilities, mental health issues, learning disabilities and adults with various support needs due to issues around rough sleeping and homelessness.
These services relate to the statutory duties of local authorities under the Housing Act 1996 Part VII as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002) and Care Act 2015 to provide support based accommodation to vulnerable adults over the age of 18 with varied levels of support needs.
The DPS will be used as the mechanism to procure the required services, with emphasis on enabled choice, flexibility and outcome driven bespoke services taking a person-centred approach. Haringey will also aim to drive improvements in quality of available capacity in the market. Potential suppliers will be required to go through an accreditation and enrolment process which sets out the minimum quality standards required to join the DPS. By applying for inclusion on the DPS and subject to meeting the minimum entry standards set out in the tender documentation, suppliers will be invited to submit tenders. Haringey will issue requests for tender to suppliers enrolled to the DPS as and when a requirement arises and will be able to start participating in delivery of services to the Haringey’s service users in the borough through individual packages.
The DPS shall be divided into the following service categories:
A. physical disability:
(i) core support plus additional 1:1 as defined in the support plan;
B. learning disability:
(i) core support plus additional 1:1 as defined in the support plan;
C. mental health:
(i) core support plus additional 1:1 as defined in the support plan (iv) specialist support;
D. positive behavioural services:
(i) accommodation-based 18 years+,
(ii) community-based 18 years+,
(iii) community-based under 18 years.
The contracts to be awarded under this DPS will be subject to the ‘Light Touch Regime’ under sections 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘2015 Regulations’). Accordingly the full scope of the 2015 Regulations do not apply. Nothing in this OJEU notice or any other document issued during the procurement process (which refers to the process regarding admission to the DPS, to the award of contracts under the DPS or otherwise) shall be taken as acceptance that the full scope of the 2015 Regulations applies nor is it intended to create any contract (express or implied) that Haringey is conducting the procurement in accordance with the full scope of the 2015 Regulations. In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the above, although the DPS that is being procured is modelled on a Dynamic Purchasing System under regulation 34 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Haringey is not bound by regulation 34 in relation to the establishment and operation of the DPS.
The following contracting authorities shall also be permitted to award contracts under the DPS for the provision of services in its own geographical area upon entering an access agreement with Haringey:
• the following local authorities: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, London Borough of Barnet, London Borough of Bexley, London Borough of Brent, London Borough of Bromley, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Croydon, London Borough of Ealing, London Borough of Enfield, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London Borough of Hackney, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London Borough of Harrow, London Borough of Havering, London Borough of Hillingdon, London Borough of Hounslow, London Borough of Islington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London Borough of Lambeth, City of London, London Borough of Lewisham, London Borough of Merton, London Borough of Newham, London Borough of Redbridge, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London Borough of Southwark, London Borough of Sutton, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Borough of Waltham Forest, London Borough of Wandsworth, London Borough of Westminster; and
• any local authority in the following counties: Hertfordshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Berkshire.
