Published date: 3 April 2023
This notice was replaced on 16 August 2023
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Awarded contract (published 16 August 2023)
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Contract summary
Industry
Administration services - 75100000
Education and training services - 80000000
Health and social work services - 85000000
Health services - 85100000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£1,083,333.33
Procurement reference
tender_341674/1190188
Published date
3 April 2023
Closing date
23 May 2023
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
10 July 2023
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The children social care sector is facing significant social worker retention pressures and an overreliance on agency social work resource. To support the sector in its response to this, it is the Department for Education's intention to undertake a procurement exercise to appoint a suitably experienced organisation to deliver the following high level objectives relating to child and family social work:
1) To deliver solutions recommended by the National Workload Action Group (NWAG)and provide a secretariat role for the group
2) produce tools and resources to support Local Authorities with social worker retention; and
3) produce tools and resources to support Local Authorities in the engagement of agency social workers.
The NWAG is made up of sector and practice experts and seeks to identify and recommend solutions to reduce unnecessary workload drivers for child and family social workers so that child and family social workers have enough time to spend working directly with children and families.
The supplier will be responsible for delivering solutions recommended by the NWAG (either by procuring 3rd parties or performing the work directly). As part of this work the supplier will deliver a secretariat role to convene and manage the NWAG as an impartial adjudicator.
In addition to the work of the NWAG, the same supplier would be required to:
- collate and/or produce tools and resources on areas that impact social worker retention to complement the Social Worker Employer Standards Health Check, areas include wellbeing, supervision and effective workforce planning systems; and
- produce tools/resources to support Local Authorities to engage agency social workers effectively and collaboratively (including, subject to consultation, to support local authorities to comply with proposed national rules on engaging agency social work resource).
The total budget for this procurement is £1,300,000 inclusive of VAT.
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".
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 'National Workload Action Group Secretariat and Lead Delivery Partner on Social Worker Retention and Agency Resources' (ITT_2124) and this will take you directly to the live tender. The closing date for submitting your tender is 17:00 GMT on 23rd May 2023.
Please use the Jaggaer e-procurement system https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html to submit any questions you may have about the requirements and tendering procedure at this time.
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
- Early engagement
- Published 16 December 2022
About the buyer
Address
Sanctuary Buildings Great Smith Street, London
London
SW1P 3BT
England
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