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Background:

This report provided the outcome of the procurement for joint services across the Council and NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) as part of the implementation programme contained in the joint Intermediate Care and Reablement Strategy.  The strategy had been referred to the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee for comment on 11 August 2015, prior to formal consideration and approval by Cabinet on 25 August 2015.  It had also been approved by the CCG Governing Body on 26 August 2015.  It was presented to the Health and Wellbeing Board on 15 September 2015.  Progress on implementation and the proposed procurement was referred to the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 17 December 2015. An assessment then concluded the service change was unlikely to lead to a substantial variation in health services.

The procurement would enable Medway Council and CCG to improve outcomes for patients/service users who had advised that they wish to be supported at home wherever possible.  The emphasis of the service was to promote independence and reduce the need for long term reliance on health and social care.  It was consistent with good practice and national models of integrated care.

An Invitation to Tender (ITT) was issued to four providers after a period of

Competitive Dialogue – the first time Medway had used this process and the first time it has been used anywhere for this type of service.  A Diversity Impact Assessment had been carried out following the evaluation of all tenders as part of the implementation process and this provided a positive analysis of equality issues and was attached as an Appendix to the report.

Officers were anticipating the implementation of this service would improve outcomes for vulnerable service users by supporting more people at home and less people in hospital beds/residential care homes/nursing homes.  As the emphasis of this service was upon reablement, officers expected more people to become independent and less dependent upon Social Care and Health Services.  Health and Social Care officers were therefore expecting this programme to realise benefits which would be measured through the work of the Better Care Fund.

The four suppliers’ tenders were assessed according to evaluation criteria.  The evaluation criteria used were 60% quality 40% price.  Full subcriteria and individual performance were available to the Cabinet in the exempt appendix to the report.

This report was considered by the Procurement Board on 30 June 2016.  The Board supported the recommendation set out in paragraph 8 the report – ie to award the contract to the supplier which achieved the highest score in the evaluation process.

The Council's decision to award this contract would be subject to observing the procurement standstill period of a minimum of 10 working days in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Council would be unable to enter into the contract before the end of the standstill period.