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Procurement Reform Bill. Annie Gunner Logan Director, CCPS 12 December 2013. Re-tendering of care and support. Causes instability, uncertainty and anxiety Has driven down hourly rates to unsustainable levels, with a particular impact on the workforce
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Procurement Reform Bill Annie Gunner Logan Director, CCPS 12 December 2013
Re-tendering of care and support • Causes instability, uncertainty and anxiety • Has driven down hourly rates to unsustainable levels, with a particular impact on the workforce • Takes up management and staff time that could be better used improving and developing services • Clashes with principles and practice of SDS
CCPS Procurement Survey 2013 • 2% of providers engaged in developing service specifications • 12% confident that service users and families are notified appropriately • 84% chose not to submit, typically because of price cap/ total contract value • 34% asked to drop price after contract award
CCPS Provider Survey 2013 • Some movement towards outcomes in contracts • Big shift to frameworks rather than service contract tenders • Trend towards generic services • Minimal adjustments for SDS • Still largely about cost “There’s a lot that doesn’t go out to tender”
Procurement Reform Bill • Applies EU Treaty principles (equal treatment of suppliers, non-discrimination) to all contracts over £50,000 • Sustainable procurement duty • Procurement strategies and annual reports • Ministerial guidance on selection of tenderers, including “recruitment and terms of engagement of the workforce”
Cabinet Secretary response Infrastructure & Capital Investment Committee 11/12/13 Scottish Government will introduce an amendment at Stage 2 to take social care contracts out of scope of the requirement for advertisement and competition (but leave them in scope for everything else).
Merry Christmas! “We will introduce n amendment at Stage