--- title: "Community Unit with Nursing" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-02cde8" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02cde8" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02cde8.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02cde8.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "THE ROTHERHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST" published: "2021-07-29" --- # Community Unit with Nursing Buyer: THE ROTHERHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02cde8 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02cde8) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02cde8.json) ## Summary The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is currently conducting a tender for a "Community Unit with Nursing" to provide short-term nursing care for individuals who cannot remain at home and do not require consultant-led acute care. This procurement falls under the health services category and has a total estimated contract value of £2,882,880. The procurement is in the Tender stage, with submissions due by 31st August 2021 at 17:00. The service is intended to support adults 18 years and over in Rotherham, aiming to facilitate safe discharges from acute care and enhance independence through tailored therapy programmes. This tender presents a significant opportunity for healthcare service providers, especially those with capabilities in community nursing and rehabilitation services. Businesses that can meet the criteria, including having a Care Quality Commission (CQC) registration and the ability to provide qualified staff, will find this an advantageous process. With the focus on integrated care models and support for individuals transitioning from hospital to home, providers specialising in reablement and recovery would be particularly well-suited to compete for this contract. ## Notice The Authority is looking to work with a capable provider to supply a community unit with nursing to support individuals on a short-term basis who either cannot remain at home but do not require consultant led acute care or who are being discharged from acute care but are not yet able to return home. The supplier will work with health and social care providers to support discharge to assess, recovery, rehabilitation and reablement care plans to facilitate independence and enable as many people to return home as is possible.Individual therapy programmes will be formulated with the individual to achieve the following objectives :-* Return home at the earliest opportunity and/or;* Increase or maintain independence, choice and control and/or;* Instigate planned treatment and care to manage deterioration in health and wellbeing. ### Lot Information Lot 1 The development of a new reablement and intermediate care offer is a priority within the Rotherham Health and Social Care Place Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan and, more recently, national discharge guidelines introduced in response to the Covid Pandemic, outline an integrated 'discharge to assess' model based on 'Home First' principles. The aim is to develop community services to support more people to be discharged home directly from an acute setting or to remain at home during an exacerbation or acute incident. However, this is not always possible and there will be times when a person does not require consultant led care in an acute hospital, but cannot be safely cared for at home. There is therefore a need to provide community beds with nursing for short-term care. The required service will sit within the overarching Discharge to Assess Framework, supporting adults aged 18 years and over, providing step up and step down beds for those people whose needs cannot be met at home. Where appropriate, there will be a particular focus on recovery, reablement and rehabilitation to the level the individual can achieve. Suppliers will work with a multi-disciplinary health and social care team to asses an individual's needs including their capacity for independent living and any potential ongoing care and support needs and the requirement will be to provide 24-hour nursing care beds support that focuses on reablement appropriate to each individual's need. Renewal: Option of 1 x 12 month renewal, subject to satisfactory provision of service. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018042-2021 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 29 Jul 2021 | | Submission deadline | 31 Aug 2021 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £2,882,880 | | Lots value | £2,882,880 | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Active | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | THE ROTHERHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | | Locality | ROTHERHAM | | Post town | Not specified | | Postcode | N/A | | Country | Not specified | | ITL 1 | Not specified | | ITL 2 | Not specified | | ITL 3 | Not specified | | Local authority | Not specified | | Electoral ward | Not specified | | Westminster constituency | Not specified | | Delivery location | TLE31 Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85140000 - Miscellaneous health services ## Release History - 29 Jul 2021 at 09:20 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018042-2021 ## Notice URLs - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/workingtogethernhs/aspx/home - https://www.therotherhamft.nhs.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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