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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Reading Borough Council

Adult Social Care and Health Policies and Practice Guides Project

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£50k
Awarded23 Mar 2020
Published4 Mar 2020
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£50ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits below the typical range for Health & Social Care contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Reading Borough Council is looking to work with a suitable provider to refresh (and in some cases write) the Council's Directorate of Adult Social Care & Health (DASCH) policies and staff practice guides.

The aim is to ensure that they are clear, informative and accessible whilst setting clear expectations of working practices for adult social care staff at all levels from senior managers to operational and business support staff.

The Council wishes to gain the potential interest of experienced providers to deliver a refreshed suite of policies and staff practice guides for Adult Social Care & Health staff.

The scope of the work is to review and develop the following: o Policies Overarching policies (documents that provide staff with the framework to meet statutory and legal requirements.

E.g.

Safeguarding, Finance and Moving & Handling) and o Practice Guides Practice guidelines (guidance that is sometimes called protocols / guides / frameworks / templates / forms or checklists).

They cover work undertaken by certain staff or teams.

Often it is the 'translation' of a policy or procedure into local language and within local workflows.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The aim is to ensure that they

The aim is to ensure that they are clear, informative and accessible whilst setting clear expectations of working practices for adult social care staff at all levels from senior managers to operational and business support staff.

02

The Council wishes to gain the potential

The Council wishes to gain the potential interest of experienced providers to deliver a refreshed suite of policies and staff practice guides for Adult Social Care & Health staff.

03

Overarching policies (documents that provide staff

Overarching policies (documents that provide staff with the framework to meet statutory and legal requirements.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
87d17a60-aadb-454a-aaf7-1cafd3df48b0
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
RBC 00000734
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