Published date: 21 April 2023

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: 26 May 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

  • Physiotherapy services - 85142100

  • Social work and related services - 85300000

    • Social work services - 85310000

    • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

B4 7DJ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-100-3940-P0704

Published date

21 April 2023

Closing date

26 May 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 July 2023

Contract end date

30 June 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure (above threshold)

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

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

Birmingham Children's Trust (BCT) (the Trust) is responsible for discharging the statutory Social Care duties of Birmingham City Council towards its Children, Young People and Families, among them the duty to provide an Adoption Service.

In 2015 the Department for Education introduced the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) for eligible Adopters and Special Guardianship (SGOs) families across England. This fund is designed to offer families specialist therapeutic support following adoption.

The purpose of this specification is to ensure quality provision for eligible Adopters and Special Guardianship (SGOs) families across England. This service provision is designed to offer families specialist therapeutic support following adoption in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families in line with statutory legislation and guidance.

This requirement has emanated from the Government's initiative to provide an Adoption Support Fund to Local Authorities and Children's Trusts to support adoptive families.

BCT is seeking to commission a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for organisation(s) to provide Therapeutic Interventions for children adopted from care and their adoptive families in response to funding available through the Adoption Support Fund (ASF).

The DPS will be established on the following categories of therapeutic services:

- Category 1 - Therapeutic/Attachment Focused Parenting Support
- Category 2 - Therapeutic Life Story Work
- Category 3 - Psychotherapy
- Category 4 - Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Category 5 - Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
- Category 6 - Solution Focussed BRIEF Therapy
- Category 7 - Sensory Integration Processing Therapy/Therapeutic Listening Programme/ Sensory Integration Attachment Therapy
- Category 8 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for the Child
- Category 9 - Systemic / Multi Systemic Family Therapy
- Category 10 - Video Interaction Guidance
- Category 11 - Dialectical therapy (branch of CBT)
- Category 12 - Reducing Anxiety Management Plan (RAMP)
- Category 13 - Neuro Integration System Therapy (NIS)
- Category 14 - Lego Therapy
- Category 15 - Dance Movement Therapy
- Category 16 - Group Programmes
- Category 17 - Educational Psychotherapy
- Category 18 - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Category 19 - Creative Therapy
- Category 20 - Theraplay
- Category 21 - Mindful Yoga
- Category 22 - Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)
- Category 23 - Training for Adoptive Parents (eg. Secure Base / SafeBase Parenting Programme)
- Category 24 - Play Therapy
- Category 25 - Therapeutic support for sexualised behaviour/ sexually harmful behaviour
- Category 26 - Specialist Assessment
- Category 27 - Filial Therapy
- Category 28 - Further or more complex assessme...

More information

Links

Additional text

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.

Delivery Notes

Birmingham

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Carol Woodfield

Address

1 Lancaster Circus
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7DJ
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 303 2913

Email

Carol.Woodfield@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk