Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (the Council) is a unitary, metropolitan authority located in the West Midlands. SMBC is made of 6 towns (West Bromwich, Oldbury, Tipton, Wednesbury, Smethwick, Rowley Regis). SMBC employs over 4500 people. The Borough Council of Sandwell (the Council) wishes to invite interested parties (“Tenderers”) to participate in a Tender exercise to establish a single supplier for the provision of a STAR (Short Term Assessment and Reablement) Call monitoring and Care Planning System(“the Invitation to Tender”)