Older People Day Opportunity Services 2025

Complete

Buyers

Westminster City Council

Value

£23,193,918

Classifications

Social work services without accommodation

Tags

tender

Submission Deadline

8 months ago

Published

9 months ago

Description

Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are recommissioning the older peoples’ day opportunity services across the Bi-Borough area to offer a wide range of flexible services that can adapt to people’s changing needs whilst offering targeted support where required. 
The procurement opportunity is divided into three lots: Community Support, Age Well Centres/Hubs, and Day Centres.  Each lot has multiple ‘sub-lots’ with additional service specific requirements.  

        
This tender is an open procedure under the ‘light touch regime’ in accordance with the Procurement Contract Regulations 2015.  Selection criteria include a turnover threshold, and tenderers can apply for more than one sub-lot, but restrictions will be applied as per the ITT documents.
Tenderers can bid for one sub-lot or all 12, however, award restrictions apply.
The contract term is 5 years with the option to extend for an additional 2 + 2 years, starting on 1st October 2025.

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