Published date: 1 July 2019

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 8 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Social services - 85320000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£360,000 to £600,000

Procurement reference

CS14308

Published date

1 July 2019

Approach to market date

8 July 2019

Contract start date

1 December 2019

Contract end date

30 November 2022

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Under the Children and Families Act 2014 Local Authorities must make disagreement resolution services available to parents and young people. The Local Authority must commission the service, but the service must be independent of the local authority.
As part of this service specification, the service provider must comply with the requirements of the Children and Families Act 2014 and take account of the current Special Educational Needs Code of Practice.

SUPPLIER INFORMATION DAY

Suppliers are invited to attend a Supplier Information Day on Monday 8th July commencing at 13.30 hours (please see below for full details):

8th July 2019
13.30 - 16.00
Cheriton Room,
Capital House,
48-52 Andover Road,
Winchester,
Hampshire
SO23 7BH


To participate and book your place, please register at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire/ and express an interest in the SEN Mediation tender
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire/aspx/ProjectManage/14308
(see also instructions below).

If your organisation is not registered on the Hampshire In-tend portal, please go to the website stated above and click on the `Register` tab - registration is free.

Logging into In-Tend (once registered)
- To view this opportunity please click on `Tenders` then `Current` and then scroll down to the project
- Selecting 'View Details' on the relevant opportunity
- Clicking the 'Express Interest' tab
- Following the on-screen instructions

Booking Instructions
In order to book a place(s) please confirm your attendance via the Correspondence function on the project. You must provide the intended attendee's name, their job/role title, organisation name, email address and contact telephone number.

Due to limited space in the venue, we would request that only one employee from each organisation attends the event to ensure that all parties who may be interested are able to attend.

If you would like to attend please confirm by Friday 5th July 2019.

We recommend that you refer to the e-tendering guidance for suppliers which can be found by clicking on `Information for Suppliers` at the top of the In-Tend home page.

Receiving Notification Emails
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More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2019/2020 £120,000
2020/2021 £120,000
2021/2022 £120,000
2022/2023 £120,000
2023/2024 £120,000

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Simon Blachford

Address

The Castle
WINCHESTER
SO238ZB
England

Email

simon.blachford@hants.gov.uk