Published date: 21 January 2022

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: 21 February 2022, 10am

Contract summary

Industry

  • World wide web (www) site design services - 72413000

  • Application service providers - 72416000

  • Training programme services - 80521000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£150,000

Procurement reference

OXFS001-DN593308-39651621

Published date

21 January 2022

Closing date

21 February 2022

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

1 May 2022

Contract end date

30 April 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Oxfordshire's multi-agency safeguarding arrangements for children are partnership led by key statutory organisations across the county; the partnership for this arrangement is called the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board (OSCB). The children's arrangements, in particular, are led by Oxfordshire County Council, Thames Valley Police and NHS Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group.

Working Together to Safeguard Children' 2018 - Chapter 1 paragraph requires the local safeguarding partners to deliver Multi-agency training collective understanding of local need and the services available to support children and young people.

The partnership has a role in safeguarding training for local practitioners as well as in ensuring that safeguarding messages in terms of practice improvement, learning and resources are communicated clearly. With respect to the children's arrangements, 'Working Together' Chapter 1 paragraph requires[1] the local safeguarding partners to deliver Multi-agency training collective understanding of local need and the services available to support children and young people

On average the OSCB delivers safeguarding training to over 15,000 delegates a year. This is mix of e-learning, webinars training and face to face. To manage such large numbers of training delegates, it is essential that the booking system is user friendly for both the delegates and the OSCB training team. There are a total of 30,000 users registered on the system.

The current website provision for the Board has the purpose, which is to:
• Promote the work of the board
• Communicate key safeguarding messages
• Increase awareness and use of training, procedures, tools, resources and guidance to promote good practice across the network

The scope of the tender:
• OSCB Learning management System and an OSCB Website platform

Tenderers are invited to tender for the provision of the Services described in the specification for a term of 3 Years with an option for the Council to extend for a period up to 2 years (1 + 1 year), anticipated implementation date on 1st April 2022 and Contract start Date 1st May 2022.

The Council has a pre-defined budget expectation for the provision of a service as identified in this tender and bidders MUST note that tenders MUST be less than the stated value. Any tenders over the total value will be deemed non-compliant.

About the buyer

Contact name

Thomas Ashby

Address

3rd Floor
County Hall
Oxford
OX1 1ND
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 7827822641

Email

thomas.ashby@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Website

http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk