Health, social care and community contracts
Case reference FOI2023/00796
Published 31 May 2023
Request
Please send the following information relating to all contracts active during Financial Year 2023/24 procured under either:
1. Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes 85000000 (Health and social work services) and 98000000 (Other community, social and personal services), and/or
2. ProClass Classification codes ranging from 32100 to 40999 (Level 1 Social Community Care) I require for each contract:
1. The name of the contract
2. A brief description of the contract
3. The value of the contract per annum
4. The start date of the contract
5. The end date of the contract including any extension opportunity
6. The awarded contract provider
7. Any contract breaches during the course of the current contract
I specifically wish to ensure all contracts are included that the Local Authority Commissions for:
1. Hospital Discharge services
2. Adult and Young Carers Information Advice Guidance services
3. Carers Respite Break services
4. Carers Grants provision
If any of these are not commissioned by the Local Authority, can you explain how this provision(s) is supported in the local area?
Finally, can you detail:
1. Which tendering portal the Local Authority uses to publish contract opportunities, and
2. The web address for the Local Authorities' public contract register
Response
Please send the following information relating to all contracts active during Financial Year 2023/24 procured under either:
1. Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes 85000000 (Health and social work services) and 98000000 (Other community, social and personal services), and/or
2. ProClass Classification codes ranging from 32100 to 40999 (Level 1 Social Community Care)
I require for each contract:
1. The name of the contract
2. A brief description of the contract
3. The value of the contract per annum
4. The start date of the contract
5. The end date of the contract including any extension opportunity
6. The awarded contract provider
7. Any contract breaches during the course of the current contract
I specifically wish to ensure all contracts are included that the Local Authority Commissions for:
1. Hospital Discharge services
2. Adult and Young Carers Information Advice Guidance services
3. Carers Respite Break services
4. Carers Grants provision
If any of these are not commissioned by the Local Authority, can you explain how this provision(s) is supported in the local area?
Please see the attached spreadsheet which lists all of the contracts procured under either the Common Procurement vocabulary codes 85000000 and 98000000 or the Proclass Classification codes ranging from 32100 to 40999.
Regarding respite for carers of adults there is no commissioned service. Usually respite is arranged on an individual basis through direct payment.
Regarding carers' grants provision (short breaks for carers of disabled children) the council operates its own Targeted Short Breaks Allowance Scheme rather than a contracted service. Further details are available via the following link: www.herefordshire.gov.uk/family-support/short-breaks-scheme/3
Finally, can you detail:
1. Which tendering portal the Local Authority uses to publish contract opportunities, and
Herefordshire Council uses the Supplying the Southwest portal: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk
2. The web address for the Local Authorities' public contract register
The contract register can be found via the following link
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/downloads/download/3/contracts_register
The register is updated quarterly. The next update is due July 2023.
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