Published date: 11 December 2024

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 31 March 2027, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

  • Social work and related services - 85300000

Location of contract

IP1 2BX

Value of contract

£0 to £26,000,000

Procurement reference

IT-368-18555-CD1420

Published date

11 December 2024

Closing date

31 March 2027

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2027

Contract end date

2 April 2027

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?

No

Description

Tenders are invited for inclusion on a Rolling Select List of approved, quality assured providers of Social Care Community Support intended to facilitate the provision of:

o Support for Children open to Social Care's Disabled Children and Young People's Team (DCYP) (Lot 1)
o Social Care Support for children (Lot 2)
o Crisis Support for children (Lot 3)
o Supervised Family Time Support (Lot 4)

Lot 1 is expected to provide support within a family or residential setting, by staff trained to provide personal care and administer medication. The children may be physically disabled, be neurodivergent, have specific sensory/communication needs, have learning disabilities and/or life limiting illnesses.

Lot 2 is expected to proactively support children within their family home, enabling reunification and preventing admission into care.

Lot 3 is expected to support children in care at short notice (e.g., to prevent emergency or admissions into care) following placement breakdowns. The children may have a history of criminal exploitation, behavioural and emotional dysregulation, mental health issues and/or neurodivergence. The support will take place in a residential setting and may exceed 28 days duration.

Lot 4 is expected to provide suitably trained staff to carry out Family Time sessions following Suffolk County Council's Family Time protocols.

Providers can apply to join the Rolling Select List or amend which lots they have bid for at any time, however their applications once the Rolling Select List is live will only be considered on an annual basis. An overview of the process and the anticipated timescales can be found at Appendix A to the Invitation to Participate document. Bidders will be notified no later than the end of the calendar month following submission of their Request to Participate. E.g., if the submission is received in January, then bidders should be notified by the end of February. This Rolling Select List complies with the Light Touch Regime under the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

More information

Links

Additional text

This opportunity is available in the `Current Tenders` area of www.suffolksourcing.uk.

Interested parties are invited to express their interest in order to gain full access to the tender documentation.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

Neil Holland

Address

Russell Road
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 2BX
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1473264785

Email

Neil.Holland@suffolk.gov.uk

Website

https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/business/tenders-and-supplying-us