Gloucestershire Independent Health and Social Care Advocacy service for Adults.
Gloucestershire County CouncilEstimated Value
£3,400,000 – £3,500,000
Deadline
24 April 2017
Published
22 March 2017
Type
services
Overview
Gloucestershire County Council are tendering for an Independent Health and Social Care Advocacy service for Adults. This will cover: 1.
Independent Care Act (2014) Advocacy including 2. Independent Advocacy for Adult Social Care Complaints (for those eligible for independent care act advocacy) 3.
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) including Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) 4. Independent Mental Health Advocacy 5.
Additional details
Independent Health Complaints Advocacy We expect potential contractors to meet a number of minimum standards; these are detailed in the ITT. We advise all interested contractors to read the entire ITT and all documents referenced or linked to within the ITT carefully, to inform themselves about the opportunity and whether they would be interested in submitting a response.
Deadline for submitting a tender response: 24th April 2017 at 10am. Please login to Procontract via www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk and register your interest in the opportunity.
You will then be issued a confidentiality agreement which needs to be completed and sent via ProContract, in order to access the ITT documents. All questions related to this contract should be sent using the discussions function which will be available once you have logged in and registered your interest.
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Likely incumbents
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- 1
Young Gloucestershire
2 contracts wonlatest 23 Jul 2026ends 29 Jul 2027£149,199
total awarded
- 2
People, Potential, Possibilities (P3)
2 contracts wonlatest 10 Feb 2026£64m
total awarded
- 3
Elim Housing Association Group
2 contracts wonlatest 10 Feb 2026£64m
total awarded
- 4
The Riverside Group Ltd
2 contracts wonlatest 10 Feb 2026£64m
total awarded
- 5
Cheltenham YMCA
2 contracts wonlatest 10 Feb 2026£64m
total awarded
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Gloucestershire County CouncilKey Dates
Published
22 March 2017
Submission deadline
24 April 2017
Notice type
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