Published date: 16 May 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: 6 June 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£0 to £216,000

Procurement reference

tender_354161/1214271

Published date

16 May 2023

Closing date

6 June 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

31 July 2023

Contract end date

30 January 2025

Contract type

Service contract

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

The Strategic Improvement Advisor (SIA) in the North West region pilot was announced through the Departments strategy; Stable Homes, Built on Love, and aims to drive improvements in children's services in the region.
The Departments Improvement and Interventions programme in Children's Social Care (CSC) uses expert advisers and commissioners (typically from within the children's social care sector) to work with those authorities judged inadequate by Ofsted and, in certain instances, those judged as 'RI', as set out in Putting Children First (2016).
The Independent Review of Children's Social Care (Care Review) emphasised the important role that commissioners and advisors play in providing challenge, scrutiny, and leadership to support improvement in Local Authorities CSC. To capitalise on their expertise, the review recommended that DfE bring in-house our existing improvement Commissioners, creating nine Regional Commissioner roles. DfE wants to test a variation of the proposed Regional Commissioner model, by introducing a senior Children's Social Care expert to provide dedicated improvement support and guidance to a single region, with the aim of improving regional performance. The SIA will work in collaboration with regional stakeholders, the DfE and cross-governmental colleagues to deliver on regional improvement.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Strategic Improvement Advisor's primary role will be two-fold.
1. Act as a unifying figure in the region; promoting joined-up working between key partners in the North West, across health, police, education and other key sectors. They will facilitate new relationships between these strategic partners and work towards a shared set of goals, that ultimately help the region to improve its ambitions.
2. Responsible for developing and co-ordinating the delivery of a region-wide improvement plan that highlights the key ambitions for children in the region and the key outcomes and actions that the region will work towards.
The Requirements that are the subject of this procurement are captured by PCR 2015 Chapter 3, Section 7 (Social and Other Specific Services); the so called "Light Touch Regime". The Department is committed to engaging and working with Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's). A pro-active approach is being taken in stipulating that this procurement is open to SME's and individuals only.

To register your interest to tender and view the tender documents, you will need to be registered as a supplier on the DfE Jaggaer eTendering portal, available at
https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
Once registered the information will be accessible via the View Opportunities link on the Homepage. Select the Opportunity Notice for North West Strategic Improvement Advisor (ITT_2252) and this will take you directly to the live tender. The closing date for submitting your tender is 12:00 GMT on 6th June 2023.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

North West Strategic Improvement Advisor (SIA) Project_7977

  • Early engagement
  • Published 27 March 2023, last edited 24 April 2023

Links

Additional text

Please register with and use the Jaggaer e-procurement system to submit your bids and ask any questions you may have about the requirements and tendering procedure at this time.

About the buyer

Contact name

Sam White

Address

DfE Head Office, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street,
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

sam.white@education.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education