Published date: 7 January 2021
Last edited date: 7 January 2021
This notice was replaced on 1 June 2021
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Awarded contract (published 7 January 2021, last edited 1 June 2021)
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Contract summary
Industry
Administrative educational services - 75121000
Location of contract
North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West
Value of contract
£1,500,000 to £2,000,000
Procurement reference
tender_255981/916589
Published date
7 January 2021
Closing date
8 February 2021
Closing time
12am
Contract start date
12 April 2021
Contract end date
11 April 2022
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The government is committed to creating more high quality, affordable and flexible childcare, including before and after school and during the school holidays.
Our Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) will provide free childcare, structured activities and food for those on free school meals (FSM), during the Easter, Christmas and summer holidays.
The Department is running a procurement for support, advisory and performance monitoring services to assist local authorities with ensuring holiday provision for school-age children across England.
This will include (but is not limited to) -
1. Supporting local authorities with the tools and practical guidance on rapidly mapping the current sufficiency of school-age childcare within their region.
2. Providing practical planning and delivery advice to support local authorities in increasing the sufficiency of school-age childcare in their region. This may include identifying potential gaps in provision, supporting the creation of new childcare places, enhancing existing offers and making best use of partnership arrangements with local bodies, schools and other relevant organisations.
3. Regular reporting to DfE against the contract and progress in local authorities.
4. Helping local authorities to create and implement a local communication plan to target parents and hardest to reach communities.
5. Setting up a system of peer-to-peer support amongst local authorities.
More information
Links
Additional text
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In the 2018 Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents, parents report that the most helpful changes to local childcare provision to make it better suited to their needs would be affordable childcare (26%) and more childcare available during the school holidays (19%) - with summer holidays reported as the main time of year that improvements could be made.
The same survey also found that 15% of parents thought childcare which operated for longer hours would make provision better suited to their needs; with almost a fifth of parents (18%) wanting to use more after school club provision.
This open tender competition is being run via the DfE's e-procurement portal, Jaggaer. Links to the site and related guidance can be found via the link above. The deadline for bids is 12noon on Monday 8th February 2021.
About the buyer
Address
Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England
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