Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Cambridgeshire County Council
New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald
Huntingdon
PE28 4YE
UK
Contact person: Miss Meera Maisuria
E-mail: procurement2@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
NUTS: UKH
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/
I.1) Name and addresses
Peterborough City Council
Sand Martin House Bittern Way
Peterborough
PE2 8TY
UK
E-mail: procurement2@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
NUTS: UKH
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=2085b69a-219e-ec11-8112-005056b64545
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=2085b69a-219e-ec11-8112-005056b64545
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
21129 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Individual Service Funds
Reference number: DN601140
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Individual Service Funds (ISFs) were formally introduced in the Care Act (2014), as an option for commissioning self-directed support.
They are a mechanism by which an individual’s Personal Budget, agreed by a Social Worker, is held by a third party organisation (i.e. neither by the Local Authority nor the Service User) who is trusted by the client to help them find the care and support they need in the local community, be it access to Day Services, a Personal Assistant (PA), equipment needs, live-in care, social prescribing or signposting to other services and voluntary organisations that will help them achieve their agreed outcomes, or indeed a combination of all of the above.
It is a form of Self-Directed Support. ISFs are particularly appropriate when service users do not feel confident enough or have the capacity to manage the financial and employer responsibilities of a Direct Payment on their own but still prefer to exercise personal choice and control over how their agreed care and support needs are met.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85300000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKH
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The DPS is for an initial period of 3 years, with an optional extension of a further 2 years, making 5 years in total.
Potential providers are asked to identify whether they are:
1. ISF Providers delivering care themselves
2. ISF Providers exclusively brokering care and support delivered by other providers
The estimated value stated includes VAT as per the recent government guidance. The estimated maximum value of the DPS excluding VAT is £18,000,000.
It is expected that the first round of the DPS will close on 06/05/2022.
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
21 600 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 60
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.11) Main features of the award procedure:
This tender is the setting up of a pseudo DPS under the light touch provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Section 7.
Potential providers that score 60% or more will be accepted on the DPS.
The DPS will remain open for new applications but will be evaluated every three months, or at other intervals at the councils discretion.
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
31/07/2025
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
08/04/2022