Published date: 10 July 2017

Last edited date: 10 July 2017

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 17 June 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Primary education services - 80100000

  • Secondary education services - 80200000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£900,000

Procurement reference

SEFT001-DN128684-91486709

Published date

10 July 2017

Closing date

17 June 2016

Contract start date

1 September 2016

Contract end date

31 August 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Sefton Council intends to secure the services of an experienced and suitably qualified organisation to deliver outreach support services for children and young people who experience difficulties with social communication, social interaction and/or who have been identified as having an autism spectrum disorder, ASD. This outreach service will work in collaboration with Sefton SEN and Inclusion Service to provide support for practitioners in mainstream schools and other educational settings in order to remove barriers to learning and optimise the educational outcomes for children and young people experiencing these types of difficulties.
Current arrangements for the provision of outreach support for children and young people with social communication, social interaction and/or ASD are supplemented through the use of an external provider, Autism Initiatives. This educational outreach service is delivered through a service level agreement and focuses on the development of bespoke packages of support for individual pupils that are implemented, for the main part, by school based staff. This service is an important element of the Sefton Local Offer and is available to children and young people living in Sefton across the borough. It ensures that families can choose to have their child's needs supported in their local school, which is in line with the general presumption in law of mainstream education in relation to decisions about where children and young people with special education needs should be educated.
The existing arrangements will remain in place until 1st September 2016, by which time it is anticipated that Sefton Council will have awarded a new contract for an outreach service for schools, to support children and young people experiencing difficulties with social communication, social interaction and/or who have ASD, that meets local needs. The procurement and award of the contract will be achieved through an OJEU Light-Touch Regime tender process. Submissions will be invited from suitably experienced and qualified organisations to deliver this service as the sole contractor.
 

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Award information

Awarded date

26 July 2016

Contract start date

1 November 2016

Contract end date

31 October 2019

Total value of contract

£900,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Together Trust

Address

SK8 1JE

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Jane Taylor

Address

7th Floor Merton House
Stanley Road
Bootle
L203UU
UK

Telephone

+44 1519344282

Email

jane.taylor1@sefton.gov.uk

Website

http://www.sefton.gov.uk/