Published date: 5 October 2022

This notice was replaced on 21 February 2023

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Awarded contract (published 21 February 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£224,541,000

Procurement reference

DVNCC001-DN623550-11604264

Published date

5 October 2022

Closing date

4 November 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 February 2023

Contract end date

31 January 2028

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

To put in place a Flexible Purchasing System, with multiple partners across the Peninsula of Devon, Somerset, Torbay and Plymouth, to deliver residential children's services.

The aim of this service is to increase sufficiency of high quality placements to enable children and young people to remain as close to their home community as possible.

This is based on the principle of accessing the right placement at the right time. Placements offer an asset-based model of service, where the child or young person is supported to achieve positive outcomes, with a focus on supporting placement stability and Permanence.

The Flexible Purchasing System aims to achieve improved value for money for placing authorities through greater transparency of pricing and competition through call-off. The proposal is for this to be a continually open framework, the aim to speed up the process for new homes to become available for placements by the authorities.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

CP2216-22 Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)

  • Early engagement
  • Published 25 July 2022, last edited 23 September 2022

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About the buyer

Contact name

Jolene Roberts

Address

County Hall, The Annexe
Topsham Road
Exeter
EX2 4QD
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1392383000

Email

jolene.roberts@devon.gov.uk

Website

http://www.devon.gov.uk