Published date: 22 January 2018

Last edited date: 22 January 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 5 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data preparation services - 72312100

  • Data capture services - 72313000

  • Data collection and collation services - 72314000

    • Welfare services for children and young people - 85311300

    • Daycare services - 85312100

    • Child daycare services - 85312110

    • Daycare services for disabled children and young people - 85312120

    • Guidance services - 85312310

Location of contract

B4 7WB

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

QU098

Published date

22 January 2018

Closing date

5 February 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Birmingham City Council Early Years and Childcare Service (EYCC) requires a supplier for the provision of Supporting Quality Improvement, Sufficiency and the Information Duty in the Out of School Sector.

It is the intention of the EYCC service to commission a contract to provide the following:

• Support, advice, guidance and challenge to support the continuous quality improvement cycle in the private and maintained OOS and holiday scheme sector as, evidence shows that higher quality provision has greater developmental benefits for children, particularly for the most disadvantaged children leading to better long term aspirations and outcomes.
• Support in meeting the sufficiency duty relating to the private and maintained OOS sector because parents and carers require high quality, flexible and accessible childcare to enable them to work and train. Improving accessibility to work and training will reduce the negative impacts of poverty on child and family well-being.
• Contributing to the information duty, by supporting the collection of reliable data relating to the availability of out of school and holiday care provision available in Birmingham. Previous sufficiency assessments have informed that parents have difficulty accessing information relating to childcare and holiday play schemes. This difficulty increases for families with children with special educational needs or a disability creating a barrier to returning to training and work.

The commissioning arrangement will ensure best value for service provision and will enable the on-going provision of sufficient high quality out of school childcare services.

This contract will be for a period of 12 months commencing 1st April 2018 until 31st March 2019.

BCC will be using its e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. The web address is: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc

Registration and use of In-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the In-tend correspondence function. If you are unable to register with In-tend please either email cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 464 8000.

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Councils tender Portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register as a bidder. We will send you a log on and password so you can download the quotation documentation. Requests to participate must be by way of completion and return of the quotation documentation no later than 12:00 hours on 5th February 2018 using the Supplier Portal.

More information

Links

Additional text

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.

Delivery Notes

Birmingham

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Manjit Samrai

Address

10 Woodcock Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7WB
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 303 0349

Email

manjit.samrai@birmingham.gov.uk