Published date: 2 February 2023

Last edited date: 2 February 2023

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: 3 February 2023

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£19,000,000 to £26,000,000

Procurement reference

EALING001-DN597971-42603697

Published date

2 February 2023

Approach to market date

3 February 2023

Contract start date

1 April 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The London Borough of Ealing currently spends approximately £3.8 million per annum on providing a range non-residential short breaks, domiciliary care and Direct Payments to support children with additional needs and their families. Our priorities include; offering young people and their families a diverse range of support and meaningful short break opportunities, building local capacity and delivering excellent quality services that offer value for money. We know that short breaks benefit both disabled young people and their families/carers.

Ealing is planning to procure a Dynamic Purchasing Vehicle for Children's Day & Community Short Breaks in 2023, with multiple short break settings (draft categories) shown below. Prior to tendering we would like to obtain feedback from the provider market to help inform and shape the commissioning and procurement of service delivery of our short breaks offer for children with additional needs and their families.

Ealing wishes to carry out market engagement and invites providers to fill in a questionnaire at the link below. The questionnaire is voluntary and does not form part of any tender or contract. Your response will be confidential and providers are in no way obliged to complete it, or to answer every question within it. However, we hope providers will complete is as it will assist us greatly in informing our future strategy to commission and procure children's day and community short breaks.

Please submit your response to this questionnaire by 5.00pm on 20th February 2023 via Microsoft Forms link. You will be asked in the questionnaire if you want to have an individual meeting with commissioners, if so please provide contact details. Meetings are likely to be held on the 28th February & 2nd March 2023

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Q4w6AYeCi0yHixMeMM258yr18p-24EtEgTV6UR8rX4lUMVpKUFdBUVNOTVlPQTRKVFZVTEVaUzJPOC4u

DRAFT Accommodation Based Short Breaks Setting
(Provider provides accommodation)
Category 1 : 1 staff : 5 children staffing ratio
Category 2 : 1 staff: 3 children staffing ratio
Category 3 : 2 staff : 1 child staffing ratio
Category 4 : 1 staff : 1 child staffing ratio
Category 5 : Children with high or complex needs

DRAFT Community Based Short Breaks Settings
(No accommodation required or LA provides accommodation)
Category 6 : 1 staff : 5 children staffing ratio
Category 7 : 1 staff : 3 children staffing ratio
Category 8 : 2 staff : 1 child staffing ratio
Category 9 : 1 staff : 1 child staffing ratio
Category 10 : Children with high or complex needs

It is envisaged that Children's Day and Community Short Breaks requirements could be called off under single or multiple Categories for a single child, or for groups of children. We want to call off services for groups of children in blocks, as well as for individual children. The services called off will be for varying staffing ratios between 5:1 and 1:1 (sometimes within the same contract).

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Ealing Children's Day and Community Short Breaks

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 2 February 2023

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2021/2022 £3,800,000

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Christine Baker

Address

London Borough of Ealing, Perceval House
14-16 Uxbridge Road
Ealing
W5 2HL
England

Telephone

+44 2088255122

Email

bakerc@ealing.gov.uk

Website

http://www.ealing.gov.uk