Agenda item

Commissioning and procurement of a new delivery model for Home Care and Support Services

Report of the Strategic Director of Adult Care, Housing and Public Health

 

Recommendations:-

 

1.    That approval be given to the commencement of a competitive tender process for the home care and support service from April 2019.

 

2.    That it be noted that the new home care and support delivery model has been defined following the completion of a co-production exercise with a range of stakeholders, which informed the specification for the new contractual arrangements.

 

3.    That a further summary contract report be submitted to Cabinet detailing the outcome of the tender process and the steps required to mobilise the new framework following contract award.

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the report which provided an overview of the current home care and support service in Rotherham, particularly the state of the local market in terms of ability to meet current demand for service and the pressures that providers were facing. The report also highlighted the case for change, focused on the key principles and approaches underpinning a new delivery model for home care and support services. These were to be incorporated into a new service specification produced following a co-production exercise with a range of stakeholders.

 

The intention was to procure a new model of home care and support through a competitive tender process, with alternative service arrangements in place from November, 2019.

 

This report had been considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board as part of the pre-scrutiny process who were in support of the recommendations and subject to performance outcomes in respect of the contracts being reported to the Health Select Commission in November, 2020.

 

Resolved:-  (1)  That commencement of a competitive tender process for the home care and support service from April 2019 be approved.

 

(2)  That the new home care and support delivery model defined following the completion of a co-production exercise with a range of stakeholders, which informed the specification for the new contractual arrangements, be noted.

 

(3)  That a further summary contract report be submitted to Cabinet detailing the outcome of the tender process and the steps required to mobilise the new framework following contract award.

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