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Westmorland and Furness Council

Westmorland and Furness Council - Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Framework for the provision of Home Care Services

HealthcareCPV 85300000
Value£41.1m
Deadline31 Mar 2027
Published28 Sept 2023
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 28 Sept 2023248 days leftCloses 31 Mar 2027
Who to contact
Supply Chain Team
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Contract value in context
£41.1mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£44.4m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Social care support during the day for people living in their own homes.

Main place of delivery will be at the residence of the service user, within the Westmorland and Furness footprint.

Providers who currently have call off contracts on the current Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Framework for the provision of Home Care Services, who successfully join the new framework, will have those call-off contracts transferred.

The AQP Framework is available for use by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and future successor organisations.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Social care support during the day

Social care support during the day for people living in their own homes.

02

The AQP Framework is available for use

The AQP Framework is available for use by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and future successor organisations.

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

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidCQC registration / safeguarding policies
  • Plan for deliveryDBS-checked staff & vetting process
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-040602
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
028607-2023
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