Published date: 6 April 2018

Last edited date: 6 April 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 23 April 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

WR5 2NP

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

WCC 00000600

Published date

6 April 2018

Closing date

23 April 2018

Contract start date

14 May 2018

Contract end date

30 April 2019

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Worcestershire County Council's Children's Services is working to improve the quality and effectiveness of its services including social work practice. As part of this improvement journey, and in response to both the Ofsted inspection (judgement published 24 January 2017) and the Department of Education (DfE) Commissioner's report (published 19 September 2017), the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Children and Families has recommended that the Council voluntarily considers Alternative Delivery Models (ADM) for children's services in order to both accelerate and sustain improvement.

Worcestershire County Council has initiated a programme to appraise, design and implement an alternative delivery model for Children's Social Care. Phase 1 was the completion of an Options Analysis to decide the highest scoring ADM Option(s) (completed in December 17). Phase 2 was the completion of a Detailed Business Case on the final option chosen (to be completed by 31 March 2018). Subject to Cabinet Approval on the 29 March 2018 (papers available publically from 21 March 2018) and sign off by the Secretary of State, implementation will begin from April 2018, with an aim to go live in April 2019.

The purpose of the Tender is to identify a suitable organisation to support the Council in the next stage of our journey towards implementation of an Alternative Delivery Model (ADM) for Children's Services in Worcestershire.

If you wish to view the documents for this opportunity please click 'Express Interest'.

Following this, if you wish to apply for this opportunity please click 'Opt in' which will then enable you to view and complete the Standard Questionnaire and upload the relevant documents.

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Suppliers will receive a system generated email to confirm successful submission of their return.

Any questions or clarification should be conducted via 'Correspondence' through this portal.

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Jill Hobbins (CCO)

Address

Spetchley Road
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 2NP
United Kingdom

Telephone

01905 843620

Email

jhobbins@worcestershire.gov.uk