2223-0170 Home Care Flexible Framework

Description

Home care is a key component of Islington’s Adult Social Care vision to support residents to
live healthy, fulfilling and independent lives; maximising independence and connecting them
with their community, ensuring equality and fairness throughout.
Home Care, also known as Domiciliary Care, covers a wide range of activities, including but
not limited to, personal care; reablement; support with medication and household tasks to
support people with long-term care needs in the community. Residents may require these
services for a short period to recover from illness or injury for example, or for a longer period
to allow them to remain safe, independent and living in their own home.
Our ambitions for Home Care centres around four key areas:
• Improving outcomes for residents through a personalised, strengths-based approach that
maximises wellbeing and independence for all
• Ensuring capacity within high quality provision able to meet diverse needs and fluctuations
in demand
• Driving a more inclusive economy through fair pay and good conditions for the care
workforce; and community wealth building
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• Delivering greater value for money by better managing demand, preventing or delaying
escalation of need
To enable an integrated approach to home care, through locality-based provision the
borough will be divided three localities: North, South and Central.
As the value of the contract is above the threshold for wider advertising of the opportunity, a
Contract Notice will be published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (FTS).
This procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations
2015 (the PCR). The procurement is subject to the ‘light-touch regime’ under Section 7
Social and Other Specific Services of Part 2 of the PCR. Under Regulation 76 the Council is
free to establish a procedure, provided that the procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance
with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service
providers) and is initiated by a contract notice. The Council has utilised the flexibility allowed
under the ‘light-touch regime’ to design a process that will ensure a robust assessment of
providers prior to being appointed to the framework agreement, and to allow flexibility
around procedures for placement of individual service users. The procedure the Council has
designed is based on the open procedure.