Published date: 20 February 2024

This notice was replaced on 21 May 2024

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 21 May 2024)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

  • Social work and related services - 85300000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£125,000

Procurement reference

S8601

Published date

20 February 2024

Closing date

22 March 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 August 2024

Contract end date

31 August 2025

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?

Yes

Description

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our Local Offer for children and young people with SEND and our current involvement with the Delivering Better Value Programme, we are seeking an experienced external specialist organisation in sensory processing and integration therapy to deliver our Sensory Inclusive Environments Pilot. This pilot will consist of:
- Supporting the development of setting wide policy guidance for schools/settings
- Developing resources for schools/settings
- Delivering face to face and recorded training for professionals
- Supporting schools/settings in assessing their environments with a view to making them more sensory inclusive
- Completing assessment of children and young people with complex sensory processing needs that may require specific techniques and strategies to support them.
We will ask the successful organisation to work closely with our Access & Inclusion Service and our schools/settings to deliver the above, providing written reports for settings and an evaluation at the at the end of the pilot period with recommendations for how to implement learning across all schools/settings.

Suppliers will be required to express interest in this opportunity on the NEPO ProContract system. If not already registered on ProContract please register at the following link: https://procontract.due-north.com. Suppliers will then be granted access to the tender documentation - Project Number DN709785. Please note that registering on ProContract and expressing interest does not mean that you have bid for the tender - once the above steps are complete you will be required to complete and submit the tender documentation.

About the buyer

Contact name

Karen Dixon

Address

Town Hall,Westoe Road
SOUTH SHIELDS
NE332RL
England

Email

karen.dixon@southtyneside.gov.uk