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Grounds Maintenance Community

Description: Wye Valley NHS Trust invites suitably qualified and experienced contractors to submit a tender for the provision of comprehensive grounds maintenance and gardening services across its healthcare estate. The successful contractor will be responsible for maintaining safe, attractive, and environmentally sustainable external areas that support patient wellbeing, staff welfare, and visitor experience while ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation.

Summary: The County Hospital, part of the Wye Valley NHS Trust, is procuring comprehensive grounds maintenance and gardening services for its healthcare estate in Hereford. The work covers the upkeep of external areas used by patients, staff and visitors, with the aim of providing safe, attractive and environmentally sustainable grounds. Services are classified as grounds maintenance services (CPV 77314000) and fall within the public services category. The requirement is suited to contractors able to manage healthcare-site grounds and routine gardening operations while supporting patient wellbeing, staff welfare and the visitor experience. The estate-wide scope means the supplier will be responsible for maintaining external areas rather than delivering a single isolated landscaping project.

Tender for Childrens Rights and Advocacy Services and Independent Visitors Service

Description: Herefordshire Council is inviting tenders for the provision of Childrens Rights and Advocacy Service and Independent Visitors Service. The procurement is divided into two lots: * Lot 1 - Childrens Rights and Advocacy Service * Lot 2 - Independent Visitors Service Bidders may submit a tender for one or both Lots depending on the services they are able to deliver and their capability and capacity to meet the requirements of the relevant Lot(s). The Council intends to appoint a maximum of one supplier for each Lot.

Summary: Herefordshire Council is procuring two children’s social care services in Herefordshire: a Children’s Rights and Advocacy Service and an Independent Visitors Service. Lot 1 covers advocacy for eligible children and young people using children’s social care, including children in need, children subject to child protection plans, children looked after, care leavers up to age 25, and 16- and 17-year-olds presenting as homeless. Lot 2 covers independent visiting for care-experienced children and care leavers, providing a consistent, independent and trusted adult relationship to promote wellbeing, resilience and positive outcomes. These are health and social work services. Suppliers may bid for either or both lots, with no more than one supplier intended for each lot.

Residential and Nursing Care Home Partnership Framework in Herefordshire

Description: Herefordshire Council is seeking to establish an Open Care Home Partnership Framework for the provision of residential and nursing care placements for Older People, Working Age Adults, and short-term discharge and reablement placements. The framework will support long-term partnership arrangements with providers to improve market sustainability, quality, outcomes for residents, and value for money. The framework will operate as an open framework, allowing providers to apply to join at defined intervals throughout its term.

Summary: Herefordshire Council intends to establish an open care home partnership framework for residential and nursing care placements in Herefordshire. It will cover older people, working-age adults, and short-term placements supporting hospital discharge and reablement. The service is classified as health and social work services. The framework is intended to support longer-term partnerships with care providers, improving market sustainability, quality, resident outcomes and value for money. It will be used for care activity delivered in Herefordshire. The council is seeking providers able to deliver residential care, nursing care, or short-term discharge and reablement support across the needs covered by the framework. This is a single service lot and the procurement is regulated as a light-touch service arrangement.

Residential and Nursing Care Home Partnership Framework in Herefordshire - Meet the Buyer / Market Engagement Event

Description: Herefordshire Council will be running a Market Engagement event for all businesses interested in delivering Residential, Nursing and short stay services in Herefordshire. This event is the final opportunity for providers to engage directly with commissioners and senior Council leaders before the tender is launched. The event will provide information on the Council's commissioning intentions, strategic priorities and future service requirements, together with details of the planned procurement process, tender documentation and indicative timetable. Providers will have the opportunity to ask questions, provide feedback and engage directly with commissioners and Council representatives.

Summary: Herefordshire Council intends to establish an open care home partnership framework for residential and nursing care placements in Herefordshire. It will cover older people, working-age adults, and short-term placements supporting hospital discharge and reablement. The service is classified as health and social work services. The framework is intended to support longer-term partnerships with care providers, improving market sustainability, quality, resident outcomes and value for money. It will be used for care activity delivered in Herefordshire. The council is seeking providers able to deliver residential care, nursing care, or short-term discharge and reablement support across the needs covered by the framework. This is a single service lot and the procurement is regulated as a light-touch service arrangement.

Potential Procurement Opportunity for Open Framework for the Provision of Passenger Transport Services

Description: Herefordshire Council wishes to establish an Open Framework ("the framework") for the Provision of Passenger Transport Services. The new framework will replace the Council's Passenger Transport Dynamic Purchasing System and will form part of a mixed-economy model approach for the Council. At this stage, it is anticipated that the framework will comprise 3 Lots: Lot 1 - Passenger Carrying Vehicles contracted transport (including an option for provision of passenger assistants). For the provision of Admitted Participant supplied vehicles 9 passenger seats or more and drivers. Services commissioned will include mainstream and college transport but may also include Special Educational Needs and social care transport. Lot 2 - Hackney/Private Hire Transport (including an option for provision of passenger assistants). For the provision of Admitted Participant supplied vehicles of up (read more...)

Summary: Herefordshire Council intends to establish an open framework for passenger transport services across Herefordshire, replacing its Passenger Transport Dynamic Purchasing System as part of a mixed-economy model. The anticipated scope covers three service areas: contracted transport using vehicles with at least nine passenger seats, for mainstream, college, special educational needs and social care transport; hackney carriage and private hire transport using vehicles with up to eight passenger seats, mainly for special educational needs and social care transport; and public transport, using vehicles from minibuses to double-deckers to operate registered local bus services. Passenger assistants may also be required. The council is the buyer and the services will be delivered in Herefordshire. The procurement is for transport services rather than vehicle supply alone.

Framework of Community Equipment Suppliers

Description: Herefordshire Council is seeking to establish a framework of community equipment suppliers to provide a wide range of equipment, including moving and handling devices, pressure care, bathing and toileting aids, beds, mattresses and chairs, for use by the Community Equipment Service in Herefordshire to enable residents to live independently at home for longer.

Summary: Herefordshire Council intends to establish a framework of community equipment suppliers for its Community Equipment Service. The framework will cover a broad range of equipment used to help residents live independently at home for longer. Requirements include moving and handling devices, pressure-care equipment, bathing and toileting aids, beds, mattresses and chairs. This is a goods procurement, with the equipment to be supplied for use in Herefordshire. The council is the public-sector buyer and service owner. The opportunity is relevant to manufacturers, distributors and specialist suppliers able to provide community-care, mobility, daily-living and related personal-care equipment across this range. Suppliers may need to support the service with several equipment categories rather than a single product line.

Bosbury CE Primary School - Toilet Block Refurbishment

Description: Toilet Block Refurbishment at Bosbury Primary School, Herefordshire.

Summary: Herefordshire Council is procuring works to refurbish the toilet block at Bosbury CE Primary School in Bosbury, Herefordshire. The requirement is classified as construction work and covers the school’s toilet-block refurbishment rather than a wider education or facilities-management service. Herefordshire Council is the public-sector buyer and the work is to be delivered at the primary school in Herefordshire. This opportunity is therefore relevant to building contractors, refurbishment specialists and construction firms able to carry out school premises works. It may also suit firms that regularly work in occupied or operational education settings, where careful planning and safe delivery around pupils, staff and school activities are important considerations for the contractor.

Community Family Help Service for Children and Families in Herefordshire

Description: Herefordshire Council is seeking to appoint a service provider to deliver a countywide Community Family Help Service for Children and Families aligned to the Families First Partnership reform in Herefordshire. The new contract will commence in April 2027, with a minimum term of 3 years, with an option to extend the contract for up to an additional 2 years. The service will provide a single, integrated early support service for families with multiple and/or complex needs, with the service taking on the role of Family Help Lead Practitioner for the majority of families it supports. The Provider will also be required to deliver an agreed programme of work to families on reducing parental conflict and an agreed training programme for other professionals

Summary: Herefordshire Council intends to commission a countywide Community Family Help Service for children and families across Herefordshire. This is a public-sector early support and health and social work service, aligned with the Families First Partnership reform. The provider will deliver one integrated service for families with multiple or complex needs, acting as Family Help Lead Practitioner for most families it supports. The scope also includes an agreed programme to help families reduce parental conflict and an agreed training programme for other professionals. The work is classified under CPV 85000000, health and social work services. It will be delivered throughout Herefordshire, with the council based in Hereford. The procurement is subject to the light-touch regime and concerns one service lot.

Tender for Domestic Abuse Support Services in Herefordshire

Description: Herefordshire Council is inviting tenders for the provision of specialist domestic abuse services to meet its statutory duties under Part 4 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. The procurement is divided into two lots: Lot 1 - Safe Accommodation Service Lot 2 - Whole Family Community-Based Domestic Abuse Support Service, Dispersed Safe Accommodation and Housing Advocacy Support Prospective suppliers must demonstrate the ability to secure and maintain suitable accommodation within Herefordshire for the duration of the contract or provide evidence of robust arrangements to do so. Bidders may submit a tender for one or both Lots depending on the services they are able to deliver and their capability and capacity to meet the requirements of the relevant Lot(s). The Council intends to appoint a maximum of one supplier (read more...)

Summary: Herefordshire Council is procuring specialist domestic abuse support services in Herefordshire, covering health and social work services. The requirement has two lots. Lot 1 is a safe accommodation service providing refuge and dispersed accommodation, an emergency unit and specialist support for victim-survivors and their children who face immediate or high risk of harm. Lot 2 is a countywide whole-family and community-based service, including prevention and early intervention, floating and outreach support, Sanctuary Scheme support, structured group and whole-family interventions, housing advocacy and dispersed safe accommodation. Both lots include accommodation and support designed to enable safety, recovery and move-on. Lot 1 requires at least 20 accommodation units plus one emergency unit; Lot 2 requires at least eight dispersed properties. Delivery is throughout Herefordshire.

Provision of Childrens Rights Advocacy and Independent Visitors Services

Description: This is NOT a call for competition or request to participate. Herefordshire Council intends to commence a competitive procurement for the provision of the Children's Rights and Advocacy Service and the Independent Visitors Service. It is anticipated that the procurement will be carried out using the open procedure under the Procurement Act 2023 using the Light Touch Regime permitted under the Procurement Act 2023, Section 9, and therefore applying the flexibilities afforded under the above regulation. The Children's Rights and Advocacy Service supports children and young people to understand and exercise their rights, ensuring that their views, wishes and feelings are heard and represented. The Independent Visitor Service provides children and young people in care with access to a consistent, independent and trusted adult relationship that promotes their (read more...)

Summary: Herefordshire Council is procuring two children’s social care services in Herefordshire: a Children’s Rights and Advocacy Service and an Independent Visitors Service. Lot 1 covers advocacy for eligible children and young people using children’s social care, including children in need, children subject to child protection plans, children looked after, care leavers up to age 25, and 16- and 17-year-olds presenting as homeless. Lot 2 covers independent visiting for care-experienced children and care leavers, providing a consistent, independent and trusted adult relationship to promote wellbeing, resilience and positive outcomes. These are health and social work services. Suppliers may bid for either or both lots, with no more than one supplier intended for each lot.