SCC IC Extra Care Housing Care and Support

The Council has established an Accommodation with Care and Support (AwCS – which is now referred to as Right Homes Right Support) Strategy, which details Surrey County Council’s strategic objectives in respect of its long-term commissioning of services for the vulnerable residents of the county. The strategy documents the Council’s intentions to work jointly with the supply market to develop partnerships that will facilitate the council’s desire to move away from dependence on residential care and nursing care.

The AwCS Strategy was presented to the Council’s Cabinet in July 2019 and included the ambition to develop an additional 725 affordable unit of extra care housing in Surrey by 2030.

The Council has proceeded to identify various sites for development and sought to procure development and operational partners to undertake the design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) of extra care housing provision. As at October 2024, approximately 530 affordable extra care housing units are in the pipeline of development across Surrey.

For the purposes of enabling the Council to make efficient use of existing commissioning models in respect of the provision of care services to vulnerable older persons and to align the care provided to the occupants of the extra care housing with that provided more widely, the Council shall be procuring the care service separately.

The object of this tender opportunity is to identify suitably experienced CQC-regulated providers to deliver care and support to residents in these new extra care housing settings. The Council may also make use of this Light-Touch Contract for sites outside of this programme where it has a requirement for care and support.

Successful bidders will be awarded a Light-Touch Contract which incorporates elements of a Framework Agreement. The Light-Touch Contract will allow the providers to respond to future mini competitions for extra care housing settings, which are scheduled in advance of their anticipated opening date in the construction pipeline. In response to SCC’s service and strategic needs, Call Offs under the Light-Touch Contract could be for one or more settings (i.e. a bundle of locations).