Official UK procurement notice
Sheltered Housing – Call Monitoring, Welfare Check call and Responder service
Authority: Reading Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWe are seeking a three-year initial contract with an option to extend for a further two years to commission an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to provide:
- 24/7 emergency alarm (warden call) monitoring service
- Daily welfare check calls – weekends, bank holidays and office closures
- Site responder service
- across the portfolio within the sheltered housing service. The Sheltered Housing Service provides a variety of services to people living within RBC owned accommodation. These include: 1. General Sheltered, 2. Cedar Court Sheltered Extra Care scheme, 3. Phoebe Cusden House. Full details of the requirement can be found in Annex 1 - Specification.
CPV: Social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1We are seeking a three-year initial contract with an option to extend for a further…RenewalPublished value£300,000
We are seeking a three-year initial contract with an option to extend for a further two years to commission an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to provide:- 24/7 emergency alarm (warden call) monitoring service - Daily welfare check calls – weekends, bank holidays and office closures- Site responder service across the portfolio within the sheltered housing service. The Sheltered Housing Service provides a variety of services to people living within RBC owned accommodation. These include:1. General Sheltered, 2. Cedar Court Sheltered Extra Care scheme, 3. Phoebe Cusden House. Each site currently has an analogue Tunstall warden call alarm system which monitors door entry, fire alarm systems, lift alarms, communal call points, individual flat call points, pendants, intruder alarms, the master key safe, and other assistive technology/telecare devices such as falls monitors and flood detectors. Conversion to enable digital working is being installed via an IP connector to enable working in a digital environment, whilst we review our longer-term provision of warden call equipment.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 7 Aug 2024, 10:07 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Aug 2024, 10:07 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 25 Sept 2024 – …
- Authority reference
RBC 00001997- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-024784- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-048851Find a Tender
- Review procedure
The relevant deadlines depend on the specific nature of the remedies required and are defined in Regulations 93 & 94 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 25 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 25 Sept 2024, 13:00 BST
Timeline
7 Aug 2024 → 1 Apr 2025 · 4 dates- Notice published7 Aug 2024, 10:07 BST
- Submission deadline25 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened25 Sept 2024, 13:00 BST
- Contract starts1 Apr 2025, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of Justice of England and WalesReview body
- The Cabinet OfficeReview contact point
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.