Additional block homecare provision for winter pressures

Concepts

• health and social work
• huntingdon
• month contract
• nhs
• month break clause
• winter
• winter pressures
• additional block homecare provision
• expected increase
• support hospital discharge

Location

Cambridgeshire CC:

Description

A 12 month contract, with a six month break clause, to a current provider to allow for additional provision of homecare to support an expected increase in the number of people who will need this service this winter. Working and funded in partnership with the NHS, this provision will ensure people continue to return home from hospital as soon as they are able to do so despite rising demand for services. To support hospital discharge throughout the County and meet the Councils statutory duty, it is vital that this provision is maintained.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Legal Justification

This contract has necessitated the the use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a call for competition due to the urgency of requiring the provision at extremely short notice. The provision supplied by the Provider has been guaranteed for immediate commencement, that would otherwise would not have been able to be achieved through regular procurement. The delay caused by procuring a service of this magnitude would have been considerable, and would not have met the requirement of an immediate start due to the nature of the service. A full procurement would have taken at least three months, following governance approval, and again further delay due to the mobilisation of such a contract by the Provider. With the existing pressures in the homecare market due to lack of workforce and rising costs, this was the only option available to meet the demand of increasing and forecasted winter pressures now.

Other Information

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