Handyperson Service and Care and Repair Service.
The Highland CouncilEstimated Value
Not specified
Deadline
16 April 2025
Published
14 March 2025
Type
services
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Handyperson and Care and Repair services. Handyperson and Care and Repair Services
Handyperson and Care and Repair Services Handyperson and Care and Repair Services
Handyperson and Care and Repair Services Handyperson and Care and Repair Services
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- Handyperson Service
- Summary - A person-in-van/one-stop source of assistance to people aged 65+ or any age with a disability. Assistance ranges from a selection of minor household repairs and tasks to delivery, uplift, and demonstration of a selection of aids and equipment from the Community Store. Telecare/Telehealth Service Summary – Telecare and Telehealth is a range of equipment design to respectively; alert when an individual living alone has fallen, left the property is in distress or is in danger of a fire or other such harm. Devices are installed by Telecare Officers which are programmed to a hub in the Client’s home. If a device alerts the monitoring HUB in Aberdeen will call the Client to find out what’s happening and/or alert their list of first responders and/or the emergency services as appropriate. Telehealth works along similar principles but allows visiting Carers to undertake basic health checks using the equipment which will report the outcomes to trained staff monitoring the Client’s condition. It is used to maintain a Client’s health records and to prioritise in-person visits from Healthcare professionals. Telecare/Telehealth Service Digital Switch On Summary – By January 2027 it is anticipated that analogue connections will be permanently switched off and only digital communication equipment will work thereafter. Many analogue Telecare/Telehealth systems in Highland currently run on an analogue connection. Clients with an analogue connection will require to have new digital equipment installed ahead of the deadline Community Stores and Short Term Loan Service Summary – Currently there are a number of Community Stores managed by a variety of organisations pan-Highland, forming the NHSH Pan Highland Community Store offering. Ideally all Community Stores going forwards will be managed as part of this tender to ensure parity and greater integration of Stores facilities and Store activity pan Highland. It is anticipated that Bidders will identify approximate costs to set up a Community Store and be able to present those costs in terms of one-off, set-up or fit-out costs, along with anticipated running costs annually thereafter. Bidders may wish to offer an appropriate building/site as an example of the premises they would propose to use and around which their tender will be based. It is anticipated that if any of the premises selected are already operating as a Community Store, Bidders will be able to outline how they might seek to acquire/control the premises and follow TUPE to protect any individuals currently working there. Community Store Delivery and Collection Service Summary – This element of the Service is responsible for the Delivery of specified aids and equipment from the Community Store and their installation in the Client’s home (moving furniture etc as appropriate to make space, reach sockets and enabling Client to move safely around it). Staff will offer a demonstration to Client/Carer/Family and ensure that safe use is understood before leaving. This element of the service is also responsible for Collection of Used/Dirty equipment, bagging or otherwise containing it for transport and returning it to the Community Store where it will be cleaned, repaired and reset as appropriate Care and Repair Service Summary – The Care and Repair Service is available to Officers are in place to act on behalf of Clients needing to make an application for Financial Assistance from the Highland Council’s Scheme of Assistance towards eligible Repairs and Adaptations.
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Likely incumbents
Suppliers who won similar work from this buyer in the last 5 years.
- 1
New Start Highland
2 contracts wonlatest 7 Aug 2026£244,977
total awarded
- 2
Salvation Army Trustee Company(The)
1 contract wonlatest 7 Aug 2026£4m
total awarded
- 3
CrossReach (the operating name for The Church of Scotland Social Care Council)
1 contract wonlatest 7 Aug 2026£4m
total awarded
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The Highland CouncilKey Dates
Published
14 March 2025
Submission deadline
16 April 2025
Notice type
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