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Direct Payment Payroll and Banking Services

Description: This is not a call for competition and is not yet a contract opportunity. Somerset Council is reviewing how it delivers support for people who receive a Direct Payment or other personalised budget. From 2027, the Council intends to bring the advice and guidance element of the current service in house and procure a separate external payroll and banking service. We are seeking early feedback from providers who deliver payroll, holding account, managed account or third-party banking services. This feedback will help us test whether the proposed service specification is clear, realistic and comprehensive, and whether it reflects the requirements needed to support a good, robust and compliant service.

Summary: Somerset Council is planning a separate external service for people in Somerset who receive Direct Payments or personalised budgets. The service will support adults, children and young people, carers, and people with Education, Health and Care Plan payments where appropriate and safe. It may be delivered by one provider or split between providers. The payroll element will support people employing Personal Assistants or other directly employed support staff, including payroll processing, payslips, tax, National Insurance, pensions, statutory payments and deductions. The banking element will provide holding, managed or third-party accounts, receiving Council payments, making agreed payments, maintaining financial records and retaining invoices and receipts. The service is classified as health and social work services (CPV 85000000) and will be delivered in Somerset.

Provision of Educational Psychologists to carry out Statutory Assessments

Description: The Provider shall supply suitably qualified and HCPC-registered Educational Psychologists (EPs) to undertake Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA) work and produce Psychological Advice on behalf of Somerset Council. The overarching aim of the service is to support the timely completion of statutory EHC needs assessments and contribute to improved outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The Provider will be expected to work collaboratively with Somerset Council to reduce delays within the EHC assessment process and support compliance with statutory timescales.

Summary: Somerset Council is procuring educational psychology services to support statutory Education, Health and Care Needs Assessments (EHCNAs) for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. The provider will supply suitably qualified Educational Psychologists to carry out assessments and produce psychological advice for the Council. The service is intended to help complete statutory assessments on time, reduce delays in the EHC assessment process and contribute to improved outcomes for children and young people. Work will be delivered for Somerset Council in Somerset, under a health and social work services classification. This is a public-sector service requirement managed by Somerset Council, rather than a supply of goods or construction works.

Provision of a Mental Health Crisis House in Somerset

Description: Contract for the provision of a Mental Health Crisis House in Somerset. The successful provider will proactively manage and deliver all care and support required, within a residential setting based in Taunton or Yeovil.

Summary: Somerset NHS Foundation Trust procured a mental health crisis house service in Somerset, classified as residential health facilities services (CPV 85144000). The requirement is to provide an existing residential service in Taunton or Yeovil, proactively managing and delivering all care and support needed for people experiencing a mental health crisis. The Trust is the buying organisation and the service is delivered within Somerset. This is a healthcare services opportunity under the Provider Selection Regime, focused on patient care and links with the Trust’s own services. The requirement covers a single service rather than separate geographic or functional packages, and the selected provider is expected to operate the residential setting and manage the associated care and support provision.

Construction of Community Hub South West England

Description: This tender is to appoint a main supplier for the construction of a new single storey (with attic storage) Village Hall and football changing facilities at the Recreation Ground, Whitcross, Barwick, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 9TQ Works include building construction, utilities, external areas, and access/parking provision all as detailed and described in the attached documents. The hall is intended as a flexible, multiuse facility supporting community groups, the Parish Council, wellbeing activities, small events, family programmes, and general local services, with additional provision of changing room facilities for teams and officials for the adjacent football pitch. The tender process is a below-threshold Open Procedure (single-stage). The contract will be a JCT intermediate contract with Contractor Design Portion applicable in respect of some elements as defined in the accompanying documents. (read more...)

Summary: Barwick and Stoford Parish Council is seeking a main contractor to construct a new single-storey village hall with attic storage and football changing facilities at the Recreation Ground, Whitcross, Barwick, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 9TQ. The works cover building construction, utilities, external areas, access and parking. The completed hall is intended to provide a flexible, multi-use facility for community groups, parish council activities, wellbeing sessions, small events, family programmes and local services, alongside changing rooms for teams and officials using the adjacent football pitch. This is a construction works opportunity in South West England, procured by the parish council.

Canon Street Changing Places refurbishment

Description: We are seeking a supplier to refurbish a changing places public facility in Canon Street Taunton to include the works plumbing electricals and furnishing, please see attached brief for further details

Summary: Taunton Town Council plans to refurbish and complete a Changing Places public toilet at the Canon Street toilets in Taunton. The works category covers minor enabling construction, plumbing and electrical works, furnishings, and the supply, installation and commissioning of a complete accessible facility. The scope includes Changing Places equipment to Changing Places Consortium standards, including a wash/dry toilet; CAME KMS key-fob access integrated with existing Simplekey Web software; monitored emergency alarms coordinated with the Somerset Council Lifeline team; an open-protocol fire alarm linked to the access-control Mag Lock for automatic door release; and clear equipment instruction signs. The council wants one main contractor to manage the complete installation, including any required door, structural, electrical and plumbing adaptations.

Digital Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People

Description: NHS Somerset Integrated Care board (ICB) is seeking to secure a Prime Provider who has the capability and capacity to deliver a Digital Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People. The Service will provide a digitally enabled emotional wellbeing and mental health support offer for children and young people in Somerset. The Service should contribute towards the outcomes outlined within this specification by improving access to timely emotional wellbeing support, supporting early intervention and prevention, reducing inequalities in access and experience, and helping children and young people access the right support at the right time. The Service should operate as part of Somerset's wider emotional wellbeing and mental health system and complement, rather than duplicate, existing statutory, education, community and voluntary sector provision. The (read more...)

Summary: NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board is procuring a digital mental health and emotional wellbeing service for children and young people in Somerset. The service will offer accessible information, advice and guidance, early intervention, prevention and timely support for emerging, low-level and moderate needs. It should provide a safe, confidential and inclusive digital environment, help users build resilience and self-management skills, support those awaiting other services, and provide signposting, navigation and referrals. The provider will work within Somerset’s wider mental health system, complementing statutory, education, community and voluntary-sector services rather than duplicating them. NHS South, Central and West is carrying out the procurement for the commissioners. The service is classified as health services.

Provision of Dairy, Bread and Associated Products Across Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Description: Provision of Dairy, Bread and Associated Products Across Somerset NHS Foundation Trust including community sites.

Summary: Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is procuring the supply of dairy, bread and associated products for its hospital and wider healthcare operations. The requirement covers Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and the Trust’s community and mental health sites across Somerset. The associated product categories include dairy products, bread and vegetables, with related supply services. This is a food supply opportunity rather than a construction or clinical services contract. Suppliers would need to support deliveries to multiple NHS locations in Somerset and provide the product range required across both the main hospital site and community-based settings. The buyer is Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, based at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

Storage, fulfilment and worldwide freighting

Description: Storage, fulfilment and worldwide freighting of our Nautical Book Publications, comprising of: Stock management and handling *Receive stock deliveries from multiple print suppliers. *Securely store approximately 450-500 unstacked pallets of publications. *Maintain accurate stock records through a front-end system that provides live reporting on stock holdings. Fulfilment objectives *Daily orders will be provided by the Authority via email as XML files, with one XML file per order. Order quantities may be as low as a single item. *Orders must be packed in bespoke cartons with a maximum weight of 30kg and sealed using the Authority's branded packing tape. Each consignment must include a branded packing list detailing the items ordered. *Items are predominantly A4 book publications. Other fulfilled items include A4 ring binders, A2 spiral-bound catalogues, and similar (read more...)

Summary: The UK Hydrographic Office is procuring storage, fulfilment and worldwide freighting for its nautical book publications. The service covers receiving stock from multiple print suppliers, securely storing approximately 450–500 unstacked pallets, maintaining accurate stock records and providing a digital system with live visibility of stock, orders and despatch tracking. The contractor will fulfil daily XML orders, including single-item orders, using bespoke cartons, branded packing tape and branded packing lists. Items are mainly A4 publications, with A4 ring binders, A2 spiral-bound catalogues and similar smaller items also included. The service must support traceable global distribution, customs documentation, British Forces Post Office deliveries, worldwide express courier and customer-arranged ex-works delivery. The work is based in Taunton and serves customers worldwide.

Bailiff Services

Description: Taunton Town Council manages parks, open spaces, recreation grounds and public assets across Taunton. From time to time these sites experience unauthorised encampments and traveller incursions, which may restrict public access, create safety and environmental issues, cause damage to land or infrastructure, and generate operational and reputational impacts. TTC is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced enforcement provider to deliver a responsive, professional and legally compliant traveller incursion management service. The successful contractor will be expected to work closely with TTC officers, Avon and Somerset Police, Somerset Council, legal representatives and other relevant agencies to secure the timely and lawful removal of unauthorised encampments while maintaining appropriate engagement, community relations and staff safety. 2. Scope of Services 2.1 Reactive Response * 24/7 response capability, including evenings, (read more...)

Summary: Taunton Town Council is procuring a responsive bailiff and traveller-incursion management service for its parks, open spaces, recreation grounds and other public assets across Taunton and Somerset. The service will address unauthorised encampments and incursions that restrict access or create safety, environmental, land and infrastructure risks. Requirements include 24/7 reactive response, site attendance and risk assessment, welfare signposting, evidence gathering, enforcement advice, notice service, eviction and enforcement activity, legal liaison, post-eviction reporting and prevention advice. The provider will also recommend site-hardening measures such as barriers, bollards, gates and security enhancements, attend review meetings, issue an incident update within four hours of attendance and provide an eviction outcome report after resolution.

Provision of Discharge to Assess Services (Night Services)

Description: Pathway 1 in Somerset is the Discharge to Assess (D2A) service and is the route for all supported discharges back to usual place of residence, excluding fast tracked End of Life. The Discharge to Assess model ensures no assessment for ongoing care happens in an acute hospital setting but happens in a person's usual place of residence instead. This enables speedy discharge and prevents the overprovision of long-term care. The ethos of the service is to provide high quality personalised reablement, to be outcome focused, and to enhance what the Individual can do themselves or with help from their support network.

Summary: Somerset Council procured a night-time reablement and intermediate-care service for its Discharge to Assess (D2A) pathway in Somerset. The service supports people discharged from acute hospitals back to their usual place of residence, excluding fast-tracked end-of-life cases. It provides personalised, outcome-focused support so that assessments for ongoing care take place at home rather than in hospital. The aim is to enable speedy discharge, avoid unnecessary long-term care provision and help individuals do as much as possible independently, with support from their own networks where appropriate. The procurement is classified as rehabilitation services and falls within the services category. The work is therefore suited to providers delivering community-based discharge support, reablement and night-time intermediate care for older people and other adults requiring assistance after hospital discharge.