Published date: 28 January 2016

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: 24 February 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

S60 1AE

Value of contract

£590,324 to £885,486

Procurement reference

A6DG-TG0IOU-A6DH-FURD0J

Published date

28 January 2016

Closing date

24 February 2016

Contract start date

2 March 2016

Contract end date

31 March 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

RMBC is seeking to commission Providers to deliver a range of non-specialist short break services for disabled children and young people, including Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The contract(s) as a whole will be for 330 individuals to receive a short breaks service with each individual having a standard entitlement of 18 hours of short break provision per annum. The standard entitlement is to be delivered as a mix of group, outreach and individual sessions as required to meet the need of service users and their families. All tenderers must bid for a mixed provision of group, outreach and individual sessions. Key times for service delivery will be weekday evenings, weekends and school holidays. Tenderers should set out how much of the short break activity they wish to bid for and what form their proposal will take. For example whether the provision is to be weekend and/or weekday, term time or non-term time activity, for the whole or part of the cohort of individuals. Tenders should detail how many sessions they will hold, where and when, numbers of children and young people to attend each session and/or individual activity and their age range. Tenderers should detail how they plan to move the service to income generation as well as plans to accommodate young people in receipt of direct payments.

More information

Additional text

Instructions to Suppliers: Please submit on YorTender before deadline.

About the buyer

Contact name

Sarah McCall

Address

Riverside House
Main Street
Rotherham
S60 1AE
UK

Telephone

01709 254529

Email

sarah.mccall@rotherham.gov.uk