FOI Request - Care Commissioning Framework

Request 101003729681

Please provide the following information relating to how the Council commissions social care via its Framework Providers, to address and service the adult social care services it is responsible for:

1. Regarding the current framework for providers:

a) How many framework providers does the Council have?
b) When is the current framework for providers due to end?
c) Does the Council have any plans to procure a replacement framework for providers to deliver adult social care services in:
i) 2024/2025, or;
ii) 2025/26?

2. How many service users (recipients of adult social care services funded by the Council) does the Council typically have at any one time during a year currently?

Response 20-03-2025

1.a) All our providers are listed in our contracts register which is published on our website. This information is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page here: http://www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file101332.pdf

b) please refer to contracts register

c) we currently use the Scotland Excel frameworks as needed as a first port of call. Developing our own framework would be the result of commissioning activity and options appraisals and advertised via Public Contracts Tender

2. For Moray there were 3,815 people were in receipt of support or services during the year

In order to be helpful we advise having a look at this useful tool: Social Care Insights, to be found here: https://scotland.shinyapps.io/phs-socialcare-people_supported-app-2023-24/