Pre Tender Market Engagement for the Provision of Rapid Response Domiciliary Care Service in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust (“the Trust”) Area

Concepts

• health and social work
• provision of rapid response domiciliary care service
• armagh
• pre tender market engagement
• northern health and social care trust
• northern health
• social work
• social care trust
• geographical service localities
• rapid response domiciliary care service

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

Provision of Rapid Response Domiciliary Care Service in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust area. It is intended that the Service will be split into 4 geographical service localities: • Lot 1: Antrim and Ballymena • Lot 2: East Antrim • Lot 3: Causeway and The Glens • Lot 4: Mid-Ulster Provision of Rapid Response Domiciliary Care Service in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust Area

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 85300000 - Social work and related services

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This Prior Information Notice (“PIN”) has been published by the Procurement and Logistics Service (“PaLS”) Regional Business Services Organisation (“BSO”) on behalf of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust. This notice relates to the planned procurement of services classified as ‘Social and Other Specific Services’ under Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“the PCR”) which will be subject to the provisions of Chapter 3, section 7 of the PCR, otherwise known as the Light Touch Regime (“LTR”). It is anticipated that the tender will be advertised in early autumn 2023. Please note the ‘Estimated date of publication of contract notice’ in Section II.3) of this notice is estimated and is subject to change. This notice has been placed for advertising purposes only. The procurement exercise will be conducted in accordance with the information contained in any final published tender documentation. Interested tenderers are advised to ensure they are registered on the eTendersNI portal where any tender opportunity will be advertised. There is no guarantee a procurement process will run. The Trust wishes to carry out pre tender market engagement with interested Providers using a pre tender market engagement paper. The purpose of this PIN and pre tender market engagement paper (CfT reference 4916122) is to engage with and receive feedback from the market by outlining the Trust’s proposals for the delivery of rapid response domiciliary care services in the Trust area including the proposed model and key elements of the service, and its procurement plans and requirements. The pre tender market engagement paper and questionnaire will be available on eTendersNI (https://etendersni.gov.uk) under CfT reference 4916122. Potential providers are asked to submit their responses to the questionnaire on eTendersNI via the messaging area under CfT reference 4916122 by 15:00 on 14 August 2023. Any interest shown in the pre tender market engagement does not constitute a commitment to participate in a procurement exercise. Failure to show interest does not restrict providers from participating in any future procurement exercise. The figure shown at 11.1.5 is a nominal figure.