Published date: 6 August 2021

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 23 August 2021

Contract summary

Industry

  • Social work and related services - 85300000

Location of contract

South East

Procurement reference

2021/S 000-019118

Published date

6 August 2021

Closing date

23 August 2021

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Brighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. We took over the responsibility for the delivery of children's services in Reading in December 2018. We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including the council, police, public health and voluntary groups.

We are responsible for the delivery of children's social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Offending Service and traded services with schools. Brighter Futures for Children is considering options for commissioning supervised contact services and welfare visits.

Commissioners would like to undertake a soft market testing exercise. This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about a potential service model and service definitions. The commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the specification.

Please refer to our In-Tend portal where a questionnaire is available for download and completion as part of our market engagement exercise

More information

Links

Additional text

This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract. The commissioners are using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this type of service. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses, responses will not be scored and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.

About the buyer

Contact name

Ginny Thorne

Address

Brighter Futures for Children
Civic Offices,Bridge Street
READING
RG12LU
England

Email

Ginny.Thorne@brighterfuturesforchildren.org

Website

https://brighterfuturesforchildren.org/