Children and YP residential and supported living
Dear FOI Team,
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.
Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Health and Social Care. DPS 3 — Independent Living Services:
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:...
The details we require are:
• What are the contractual performance KPI's for this contract?
• Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages
• Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date
• Start date & duration of framework/contract?
• Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
• Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension?
• Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?
• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract?
Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely
Helen Skea
Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA
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Dear Helen Skea
Freedom of information request - FOI/9106
Subject: FOI - Children and YP residential and supported living
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Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA
Contact: Information Team
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Dear Helen Skea
Request FOI/9106
Freedom of Information Request
Your request has been considered under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act. Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding
to you. Specifically, you have requested the following information:
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of
Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.
Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Health and Social Care. DPS 3 —
Independent Living Services:
[1]http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:...
The details we require are:
• What are the contractual performance KPI's for this contract?
Please see attached. Despite the header referring to Support living this
attachment is the same spec for all three lots below.
• Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were
successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages • Actual spend on this
contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to
the current date • Start date & duration of framework/contract?
(i) Successful providers:
Lot 1: Supported Living
Active Prospects
Allied Health services Ltd
Alpenbest Care
Brandon Trust
Care Management Group
Care Tech Community Services Ltd
CN Healthcare
Consensus Community Support Ltd
Evolve Housing and Support
Frontier Support Service Ltd
Gracefield Home Care Services Ltd
Heritage Care
Home Group
KeyRing Living Support Network
Lifeways Community Care
Lone Care Services
Look Ahead Housing and Care
MCCH
Metropolitan Housing Trust
MidCo Care Ltd
Northern Healthcare Ltd
Phoenix
Precious Homes Ltd
Sanctuary Home Care t/a Sanctuary
Support
Spencer and Arlington
Star Care UK Ltd
The Camden Society (London)
Voyage
Wisdom Support Ltd
Lot 2 – Housing Related Support:
CAYSH
EVOLVE
Hestia Housing and Support
Home Group
Look Ahead Housing and Care
Sanctuary Support
Thames
Chatfield House
Langley House Trust
Penrose Options
Caridon Young Living
Crossways supported Housing Limited
Immediatesocialcare ltd
TEAM A5 SUPPORT
Yvonne Lewis Limited
CAYSH
Bromley and Croydon Womens Aid
KeyRing Living Support Network
Thames Reach
Ambient Support
OTCS-EMINENT DOMICILIARY CARE AGENCY
MCCH
Ability Housing
Grove Care Agency
Careessence
CSN Care Group t/a Carewatch
Premier Care Services Limited
Lot 3 – Young Peoples Semi Independent Accommodation:
Asphaleia
CAYSH
Evolve Housing & Support
Green Harvest Capital Consulting
Ltd
JEM Support
Look Ahead Housing and Care
My Life Semi Independent Project
Oasis UK Ltd
Own Life Ltd
Key2Futures
Asphaleia
Barnardo's
CAYSH
Evolve Housing + Support
Green Harvest Capital Consulting
Ltd
My Life Semi Independent Project
Oasis UK Ltd
Pathways to Independence Housing
UK
Own Life Ltd
(ii) Unsuccessful providers:
The Council considers this to be commercially sensitive information and
covered by the exemption provided in Section 43 of Freedom of Information
Act. This exemption applies to information which if disclosed would, or
would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person,
including the Council.
In deciding whether to apply this exemption the Council is expected to
balance the public interest test in withholding the information against
the public interest in disclosing the information. The information is
considered, by the Council, to be commercially sensitive as its disclosure
would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of the of
Council, as it is considered that if the information is disclosed to you
it could potentially weaken the Council ability to obtain value for money
in respect of any future purchases of this type.
Furthermore, these companies details are provided in confidence. The
council is therefore of the view that it could be subject to an actionable
breach of confidence if it were to disclose information relating to
companies to third parties without their authorisation. The Council would
look to claim an exemption for this under Section 41 (Information Provided
in Confidence) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
(iii) Spend:
‘’Current’’ spend to date data, would need to be obtained from Finance
Dept
We do not hold this information separately in order to run a report or
withdraw it from our finance systems, therefore we are not able to answer
this question.
(iv) Contract Value:
Life of Contract of all three Lots ‘’Estimated value’’ - £350,000,000.00
Start date & duration of framework/Contract?
Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given
to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so,
the duration of the extension?
Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are
being either extended or renewed?
Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this
contract?
All/Any data (as listed below), relating to frameworks in relation to
Contracts, can be found at the website listed below, where the enquirer
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• Express interest in a particular tender or quotation.
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• Send and receive correspondence.
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Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 therefore applies,
‘Information reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means’. This
acts as an exemption notice. Section 21 is an absolute exemption and
therefore does not require the public interests balancing test to be
applied.
This means that the Council is relieved of the duty to communicate the
requested information to an applicant if there is an existing method by
which the information can be obtained, outside of the operation of the
Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations.
Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this
contract?
Shelley Prince - Integrated Commissioning & Procurement
Children, Young People, Education and Health – Croydon Council and South
West London ICB, Croydon Place
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Yours sincerely
Croydon Council
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