Also in this section
Resources - Provider Guides
Housing, Care & Support
A Provider's Guide to Procurement:
Sitra June 2008-12-08 Sitra is an umbrella organisation committed to raising standards in the housing, care and support sector. We are a membership organisation and registered charity with over 20 years experience of influencing policy makers and providing capacity building support to practitioners. This guide aims to help managers of organisations that provide welfare services to respond to the procurement practices of the public sector bodies that commission services and offers guidance to help in preparation of bids. The information and guidance it contains will be of value to all service managers, finance and human resources staff involved in preparing to bid for or negotiate contracts for new or existing services.
It focuses on the commissioning of housing related support by local authorities, although it has wider application. The regulations it describes apply to other public sector bodies such as central government departments, NHS Trusts and others, and while the welfare services which local authorities commission include residential and domiciliary care, day care and advice services as well as housing related support, it is in the commissioning of housing related support where there has been most recent change and which provides most of the examples of current practice in this guide. Download document from:
http://www.sitra.org.uk/fileadmin/sitra_user/TEMP/A_Provider_s_Guide_to_Procurement_for_website.pdf
National occupational Standards NOS : Commissioning, Procurement & Contracting for the Social Care, Children's and Young People's Workforces - CWDC
See website http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/nos/commissioning
Homeless Link
This web briefing is primarily for providers of homelessness services. There is a wealth of information regarding commissioning and tendering for the third sector and this briefing attempts to bring together the main sources of information that are relevant to homelessness services. It will outline the main issues and the main sources of information and possible practice solutions.
