Parkholme Care Home Service in Moray

Parkholme requires to provide a 24 hour service for a small number of adults with complex physical and learning disabilities. This includes accommodation, care and support and clinical oversight on an individual basis, in accordance with the outcomes and assessed needs detailed in the support plan, and agreed with the individual and their Guardian. This Care Home setting must be managed in accordance with the National Care Standards http://www.

nationalcarestandards. org/ and national quality outcomes including but not limited to the National Health and Wellbeing Outcomes. Individuals that live in Parkholme require to be supported to achieve outcomes out with the care home setting and there is an expectation that they will receive a variety of 1:1, group and background support including overnight whereby two staff members will be required to respond when needed.

Parkholme is a well established Care Home in Moray and the building is owned by a Housing Association.

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

The Moray Council are a full member in the Supplier Development Programme http://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/home.aspx which provides a range of specialist business support activities including the provision of advice, information and training support including webinars with the aim of assisting businesses to become more capable of accessing and competing for public sector contracts.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 55393. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:

Not applicable, no sub-contracting.

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

Moray Council have included a technical question regarding community benefits.