Care home services and care home re-development opportunities in Cornwall

Concepts

• cornwall
• health and social work
• truro
• cornwall council
• available care home capacity
• date care homes
• operational management of the existing nursing care
• new build care
• provision of care services
• new build care homes

Location

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly: Site 1 – Trefula Nursing Home, St Day, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5ET Site 2 – Trengrouse, Trengrouse Way, Helston, Cornwall, TR13 8BA

Description

Cornwall Council (the ‘Council’) is working to ensure that the available care home capacity meets the current and future demand for services. To date care homes have not been developed at the pace required to meet the increasing needs of the Cornish population both now and into the future and there is a significant gap emerging between need and the availability of supply, particularly for people living with dementia. One of a number of approaches the Council is taking to address this gap relates to the following two Sites located in Cornwall: • Site 1 – Trefula Nursing Home, St Day, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5ET, and • Site 2 – Trengrouse, Trengrouse Way, Helston, Cornwall, TR13 8BA. The Council therefore wishes to procure one (1) Service Provider and award them a Contract that will require the Service Provider to deliver the following services at two Sites located in Cornwall: 1) Purchase the freehold interest in the two (2) Sites with a restriction for the Service Provider to build and operate a care home on each Site. Any disposal of the Council’s freehold interests in the Sites shall as a minimum: a) Be based on a conditional contract or option to be taken up at the point that full planning is achieved for the redevelopment of the Site(s), and b) Be at the Council’s valuation (restricted to care home use) for each Site(s), or where the sale of the Site(s) is at an undervalue within the terms of Section 123 of the Local Government and Property Act 1990 and therefore with a reduced or no capital receipts on disposal, so long as there is a contractually binding agreement which can demonstrate a sum equal to or in excess of the level of undervalue being received by the Council across the Council Contract with the purchaser of the Site(s) 2) Undertake the operational management of the existing nursing care home at Site 1 while the Service Provider redevelops Site 1 in accordance with the Contract that will include the provision of care services and dedicate access to a number of guaranteed beds for Council placements that must be priced either below or within the Council’s fee methodology, 3) Secure funding, to enable the Service Provider to design, obtain planning permission, redevelop and construct a scheme on each of the two (2) Sites. As a minimum each scheme must include a new build care home on each Site to provide accommodation that is fit for purpose, designed to modern standards and meets the Council’s design principles for new build care homes, good practice for dementia friendly environments and any relevant CQC and legislative requirements. In addition to providing a new build care home on each of the two (2) Sites, the Service Provider will also be required to gain the best possible use of the wider Sites, and 4) Following completion of the schemes, the Service Provider shall own and undertake the operational management of the scheme at each of the two (2) Sites and provide the provision of care services at the two (2) new build care homes developed on the Sites in accordance with the Council’s care services contract that requires the Service Provider to provide the Council with: a) Dedicated access to a number of the guaranteed beds for local authority placements that must be priced below or within the Council’s fee methodology, and b) The ability to spot purchase additional beds over and above the guaranteed beds at a confirmed fee that must be below or within the Council’s fee methodology.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Council wishes to procure one (1) Service Provider and award them a Contract that includes an agreement for the redevelopment of Trengrouse and Trefula care homes and the provision of residential and nursing care services, with the residential and nursing care contract having an initial term of 15 years with an option to extend to up to 25 years. The Council’s Contract requires the Service Provider to deliver the following services at two Sites located in Cornwall: 1) Purchase the freehold interest in the two (2) Sites with a restriction for the Service Provider to build and operate a care home on each Site. … b) Be at the Council’s valuation (restricted to care home use) for each Site(a), or where the sale of the Site(s) is at an undervalue within the terms of Section 123 of the Local Government and Property Act 1990 and therefore with a reduced or no capital receipts on disposal, so long as there is a contractually binding agreement which can demonstrate a sum equal to or in excess of the level of undervalue being received by the Council across the Council Contract with the purchaser of the Site(s). 2) Undertake the operational management of the existing nursing care home at Site 1 while the Service Provider redevelops Site 1 in accordance with the Contract that will include the provision of care services and dedicate access to a number of guaranteed beds for Council placements that must be priced either below or within the Council’s fee methodology. 3) Secure funding, to enable the Service Provider to design, obtain planning permission, redevelop and construct a scheme on each of the two (2) Sites. … (2) Sites, the Service Provider will also be required to gain the best possible use of the wider Sites. … Full details of the Service Providers role and the Council’s requirements and minimum standards are provided in the Draft Procurement Documents which are made available for the purpose of Public Contract Regulations and are set out in Appendix 2 of the Selection Questionnaire guidance document, and include: • Volume 1: Invitation To Participate in Negotiation (the ITPN), • Volume 2: Descriptive Document, • Volume 3: Site information, • Volume 4: Specifications, • Volume 5: Council’s Contract, • Volume 6: Response Forms. The Council anticipate that Bidders will, • Either be led by or involve a CQC registered care home provider with the experience and established partnerships/contacts required to meet the Council’s requirements. • Involve a developer with the experience and established partnerships/contacts to construct the buildings associated with the schemes at the two Sites. • Involve any other consortium members required to be able to secure funding, design, develop, own and operate the existing care home at Site 1, and the new schemes at the two Sites.

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 45000000 - Construction work
• 50000000 - Repair and maintenance services
• 70000000 - Real estate services
• 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

Indicators

• Variant bids may be considered.
• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** 1) To access this procurement opportunity, you are invited to: a) Register on the Council’s e-tendering system https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk b) Express an interest in the project titled “Care services and the re-development of two care homes in Cornwall - DN635670” c) Download, read and carefully consider the Council’s Selection Questionnaire Guidance Document and Draft Procurement Documents d) Complete all parts of the Council’s Selection Questionnaire (Part 1, 2 and 3) and return your completed Selection Questionnaire using the Council’s e-tendering system https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk by the Selection Questionnaire Return Date. 2) The value provided in II.1.5 includes is a pre-estimated contract value for the care services associated with Council's procurement process and assumes that the maximum number of guaranteed beds are provided to the Council over the contract term in accordance with the care mix% and are priced at the top of the expected range. Given that the Council’s requirement also includes a minimum number of guaranteed beds a pre-estimated value on the same basis has also been calculated resulting in a pre-estimated contract value between £110 million and £172 million. 3) The Council is conducting this procurement in accordance with the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation as set out in the regulation 29 of the Regulations on the grounds that the Council cannot award a contract without prior negotiation because of specific circumstances related to the nature, the complexity or the legal and financial make-up or because of risks attaching to them. Applicants/Bidders are asked to note that: • Although the Council is utilising the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation, it intends to undertake a streamlined process, limiting negotiations to matters that are strictly necessary and which would benefit from discussion between the parties, and • The Council reserves the right to identify a Preferred Bidder following the evaluation of Initial Tender responses. In such a scenario Bidders would not be required to undertake the negotiation meetings or submit a Final Tender.