Published date: 12 July 2018

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£1,113,000

Procurement reference

DN353278

Published date

12 July 2018

Approach to market date

12 July 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2026

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

This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is an indication of potential future procurement activity and may be subject to change. This notice makes no commitment to procure any services. This PIN is not part of any pre-qualification or selection process.

Cornwall Council will be going out to tender in 2018 for the provision of support services for
Young Parents and their children in Cornwall. The service will work in partnership with other services and agencies to improve the outcomes and life chances for Young Parents and their children in Cornwall.

Young and teenage parents face issues specific to them when bringing up a family. Cornwall Council is interested in commissioning a service that will meet the needs of these parents and their young children that will result in positive outcomes being achieved with regards to their education, employment, health behaviour, parenting, safeguarding, social and emotional needs. The service will be required to offer support to all young parents in Cornwall and to undertake targeted work, in partnership with other key agencies, which results in evidence of improved outcomes and high levels of client satisfaction and also assists the integration of these families into mainstream and universal services.

More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2017/2018 £159,000

Attachments

Additional text

Cornwall Council is conducting a soft market assessment to gain an understanding of the potential level of interest across the Voluntary, Independent and private sector for the provision of support for Young Parents and their children in Cornwall.

It is intended that the responses supplied will enable the Council to further develop a business proposal. Any such proposal would be subject to the development and approval of a business case, and, as such, this exercise implies no commercial commitment. This is not a formal tender document.

Participation in this soft market assessment will not prejudice suppliers participating in any future procurement.

If you are interested in this area of service provision and also helping with our assessment of the market, please complete the "Information Required" section in the attached Soft Market Test document along with any additional information you consider to be relevant, and return this information to Robert.Buckley@cornwall.gov.uk by midnight on 24th July 2018.

About the buyer

Contact name

Robert Buckley

Address

Cornwall Council
New County Hall, Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY
England

Telephone

01872323461

Email

Robert.Buckley@cornwall.gov.uk