Published date: 29 February 2024

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


Closing: 28 February 2024, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£750,000

Procurement reference

Phase 3

Published date

29 February 2024

Closing date

28 February 2024

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 March 2024

Contract end date

28 February 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Deliver activity and principles for continued support, with a particular focus on sustainability and embedding the Valuing Care approach within practice, process and commissioning.

Provide support to realise the full benefits of the Valuing Care approach and to embed this systemically through children's services. Critically support to help establish the conditions and foundations for the trusts to sustain the approaches delivered without external support. To support the Trust to:

• Embed Valuing Care in practice, process and commissioning, ensuring that care and support matches the need of children and young people and that they are supported to live in suitable homes.
• Embed processes to enable systemic identification of children and young people who can benefit from targeted intervention, on an ongoing basis.
• Establish a process for collating Valuing Care data at a system level to inform and strengthen strategic decision making on commissioning and sufficiency
• Strengthen sufficiency within foster care to enable opportunities for step down from residential care (currently 18 children and young people in residential care have been identified as would benefit from family homes, but no fostering placements immediately available).

Award information

Awarded date

28 February 2024

Contract start date

1 March 2024

Contract end date

28 February 2025

Total value of contract

£750,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Impower Consultancy Ltd

Address

181 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4EG

Reference

Companies House number: 03876501

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

North Northamptonshire Procurement Team

Address

The Cube,George Street
CORBY
NN168TL
England

Telephone

0300 126 3000

Email

procurement@northnorthants.gov.uk