UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

The LGA will engage contractors selected under this brief to support those councils identified or self-identified as being in need of specialist support. These may include, for example, councils that have identified particular financial challenges or risks that they need to manage or overcome, or that may lack financial strategic or technical capacity. There is a need to work with these councils to design strategic financial advice and support to those councils and, in many cases, to provide that support. This work requires specialist financial experience and skills, and the credibility to work with senior stakeholders within local authorities.

The Council has ambitions to deliver a technology enabled lives programme at scale to drive its prevention agenda and support people who may draw on care and support to maximise their level of independence and autonomy and reduce the need for paid for care services. The support ERYC require to start this process is the development of a business case that includes: STAGE ONE • Establishment of the goals for the work/establishing the problem statement • An overview of the landscape for delivery of technology enabled lives STAGE TWO • The financial cases for or scaling up technology enabled care in terms of reducing existing support requirement. • A recommended way forward or list of options for consideration The contractor is also required to develop products/opportunities that can be shared with other councils, as a result of this work. Outcomes: • ERYC have a clear view of the current issues that they intend the development of assisted living technology will have impact upon • EYRC have a robust business case, developed to meet their specific needs and wishes, that can be used to present to corporate leaders and elected members. • The business case can be used to direct the implementation of the next stage of assistive technology in ERYC Outputs • A Stage one report • A business case, on the template provided by ERYC (with appropriate appendices) • An end of project report that encapsulates Stage One and Two learning and outcomes Products (these could be publications, webinars, slides, templates) that can be used by other councils to further develop their understanding and planning in the area of assisted living technology. The specifics of these will be decided in conversations with PCH and the contractor, at commencement and during the work. Mandatory: • previous, relevant experience and current knowledge of the assistive technology landscape. • Knowledge of adult social care and the priorities and responsibilities of councils. • Experience of working with a council to improve/develop their Assistive Technology offer In you submission please incorporate examples and evidence of all of the above within your answer to the following: In no more than 650 words, explain how you would undertake each stage of this proposal, including working with stakeholders, risk management and scope management. Describe how you might go about developing resources for wider use, alongside this specific work with ERYC. Please submit your tender documents along with the completed relevant documents as requested in the ITT on the Panacea procurement portal.

PCH wish to procure an operational review of the Long-term care and Support Service on behalf of Medway council to enable • A clear understanding of why the large backlog of reviews persists (further described below) • Evidence-based options to restore compliance and performance and variability of experience • A realistic plan to reduce the backlog at pace • Improved workforce deployment and operational grip • Reduced statutory and regulatory risk This work aims to provide an understanding of the issues causing the backlog, a number of options for improving the situation and reduce the risk of Statutory non-compliance and poor experiences of residents of Medway. We require an experienced contractor that can work alongside Medway’s Leadership and PCH to develop and deliver a focused, time-limited operational review of the Long-Term Care & Support Service Outputs. There will be a mid-point report, which will alert Medway to any early findings. In addition, there will be a final report (in a format to be agreed with Medway and PCH) that will cover: • An evidence based and detailed assessment of the root causes of backlogs • An assessment of workforce deployment and whether it could be improved • An assessment of whether management oversight is sufficient and how it can be improved • A rigorous testing of current plans to address the backlogs and their likelihood to succeed (including the impact and risk of transferring staff to the Targeted Review Team) • An assessment of statutory and regulatory risk (including DOLS) • A set of recommendations that bring together findings and maps out a proposed plan. You will need to demonstrate with evidence that you meet the below mandatory criteria. • Senior level experience of adult social care • Previous relevant experience and understanding of statutory guidance and regulations in adult social care that are relevant to this task • Previous relevant experience of data analysis, process flow and causal analysis within a similar environment and task In less than 600 words please describe, with examples, how you would: • Devise the methodology for this task • Present the outline methodology including what you believe to be the key issues and risks • Describe how you would present a final report that was of immediate use to Medway (what aspects would be essential and how might you do this?) Your tender documents along with other completed documents as requested in the ITT will need to be submitted on the Panacea procurement portal before the closure date.

The Council has ambitions to deliver a technology enabled lives programme at scale to drive its prevention agenda and support people who may draw on care and support to maximise their level of independence and autonomy and reduce the need for paid for care services. The support ERYC require to start this process is the development of a business case that includes: STAGE ONE • Establishment of the goals for the work/establishing the problem statement • An overview of the landscape for delivery of technology enabled lives STAGE TWO • The financial cases for or scaling up technology enabled care in terms of reducing existing support requirement. • A recommended way forward or list of options for consideration The contractor is also required to develop products/opportunities that can be shared with other councils, as a result of this work. Outcomes: • ERYC have a clear view of the current issues that they intend the development of assisted living technology will have impact upon • EYRC have a robust business case, developed to meet their specific needs and wishes, that can be used to present to corporate leaders and elected members. • The business case can be used to direct the implementation of the next stage of assistive technology in ERYC Outputs • A Stage one report • A business case, on the template provided by ERYC (with appropriate appendices) • An end of project report that encapsulates Stage One and Two learning and outcomes Products (these could be publications, webinars, slides, templates) that can be used by other councils to further develop their understanding and planning in the area of assisted living technology. The specifics of these will be decided in conversations with PCH and the contractor, at commencement and during the work. Mandatory: • previous, relevant experience and current knowledge of the assistive technology landscape. • Knowledge of adult social care and the priorities and responsibilities of councils. • Experience of working with a council to improve/develop their Assistive Technology offer In you submission please incorporate examples and evidence of all of the above within your answer to the following: In no more than 650 words, explain how you would undertake each stage of this proposal, including working with stakeholders, risk management and scope management. Describe how you might go about developing resources for wider use, alongside this specific work with ERYC. Please submit your tender documents along with the completed relevant documents as requested in the ITT on the Panacea procurement portal.