How to win: Residential and Nursing Care Home Services

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Staffordshire County Council (the Council) has put in place a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) arrangement for the provision of residential and nursing care home services for its clients. The Council has received applications to join the DPS from providers registered with the Care Quality Commission and has entered into a DPS Agreement for the provision of Residential and Nursing Care Home Services (the DPS Agreement) with each of the successful applicants in respect of one or more of ten lots. The DPS arrangement will remain open up to 30 September 2019 with an option to extend and the Council will continue to receive and consider applications to join the DPS until such closing date. The DPS is split into the ten (10) lots described below: Lot: 1: Residential - Older People Lot 2: Residential - Dementia Lot 3: Residential - Physical Disability / Sensory Impairment Lot 4: Residential - Learning Disability / Autistic Spectrum Disorder Lot 5: Residential - Mental Health Lot 6: Nursing - Older People Lot 7: Nursing - Dementia Lot 8: Nursing - Physical Disability / Sensory Impairment Lot 9: Nursing - Learning Disability / Autistic Spectrum Disorder Lot 10

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Staffordshire County Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £247,330,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 14 July 2017 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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