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Gateway 3 Contract Award: Assessment Bed Service

Meeting: 27/08/2024 - Cabinet (Item 9)

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Minutes:

Background:

 

This report requested the Cabinet’s agreement to approve the contract award for the Assessment Bed Service.

 

The report advised that the provision of the Assessment Bed Service was key to Medway Council achieving its strategic objective of ensuring adults maintained their independence in the community and lived healthy lives.

 

An exempt Appendix to the report set out financial analysis in relation to the procurement and recommended the provider the contract should be awarded to.

 

Decision

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Decision:

 

110/2024

The Cabinet agreed to award the contract for the Assessment Bed Service to Agincare Homes Holdings Ltd as they had been evaluated as the most economically advantageous against the Council’s award criteria as per the evaluation table set out in the Exempt Appendix.

 

Reasons:

 

The procurement of the Assessment Bed Service will deliver a service that will enable the following:

 

Outcomes Focused Care – To ensure the care received supports the achievement of individual outcomes to maximise independence, wellbeing and choice.

Introduce an Alternative Pathway – Working alongside existing rehabilitation and reablement services, to maximise options in our local health and social care system.

Maximise Independence – For residents, who, following a stay in the service return to their own home; requiring none, or some ongoing care, or discharged into alternative accommodation in the community e.g. extra care, or residential care.

Digital Innovation/Transformation – To ensure that patients returning home are supported to remain as independent with the use of assistive technology, such Telecare or Telehealth equipment.