NSW Department of Communities and Justice / Ability Links NSW Registration of Interest - ADHC.13.24

Ability Links NSW (ALNSW) is a new initiative created to support the ongoing reforms of the disability service system in NSW.  The NSW Government has committed $28.7 million per year for a total of 248 ALNSW Coordinators, known as Linkers, across the state.

ALNSW is one of a number of decision-support resources available to help people with disability by providing a locally based first point of contact to improve access to and engagement in local community and mainstream services, as well as disability services where necessary.  By 1 July 2014, families in every part of the state will have access to an ALNSW Linker who will work with them to help plan for the future, build on their strengths and skills, and develop networks in their own communities to do what they want with their lives outside of the traditional disability service system.  

With the ALNSW Hunter procurement process now finalised, the NSW Government is undertaking procurement activities throughout 2013 and early 2014 for delivery of ALNSW across the remainder of NSW – Ageing, Disability and Home Care’s (ADHC) Metro South, Metro North, Northern, Southern and Western Regions.

ADHC is undertaking a staged procurement process for the delivery of ALNSW across the state, except in the Hunter Region, which includes:

• pre-market engagement and communication – including 13 information sessions held across the state in August;
• call for Registrations Of Interest;
• a final select tender procurement process with shortlisted candidates identified from Registration Of Interest submissions;  
• negotiations.

 

Registrations Of Interest are now being sought from organisations for the provision of Ability Links NSW across the state (excluding the Hunter launch site).

For further information about the Ability Links model, please see the attached document titled ‘Ability Links NSW Specification and Guidelines  August 2013’.

Registrations of Interest close at 2pm on Friday 15 November 2013.

Please upload completed ROI Application Forms to RFT ID ADHC.13.24 on this site.

NSW Regions: Far North Coast, Mid North Coast, New England, Cumberland/Prospect, Nepean, Northern Sydney, Inner West, South East Sydney, South West Sydney, Central West, Orana/Far West, Riverina/Murray, Illawarra, Southern Highlands

Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.