Southend-on-Sea Borough Council: Empowering and Supporting Families

UK-Southend-on-Sea: Health and social work services.


Preliminary Questions
   This notice is for prior information only: Yes
   This notice aims at reducing time-limits for receipt of tenders: No
   This notice is a call for competition: No
         
Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1) Name and addresses:
       Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
       Civic Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6ER, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 1702534026, Fax. +44 1702215110, Email: procurement@southend.gov.uk
       Contact: Corporate Procurement
       Main Address: http://www.southend.gov.uk
       NUTS Code: UKH31
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above
I.2) Joint procurement:
   The contract involves joint procurement: No.
   The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body: No .

I.3) Communication          
   Further information can be obtained from: the above mentioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority    
   Regional or local agency/office
I.5) Main activity:    
   General public services

Section II: Object
      
II.1) Scope of the procurement - 1
   II.1.1) Title: Empowering and Supporting Families    
          Reference number: ESF/2018
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      85000000 - Health and social work services.
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   II.1.4) Short description:    
      Southend-on-Sea Borough Council are gauging market interest in this service as the current service has a number of experienced volunteers who would not transfer over to the service so providers would need to have extensive trained volunteers who would be to provide the service from 1st April 2019. The maximum contract value is £104,500 per annum and there is likely to be TUPE transfer and current staff costs are roughly £62,000.          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value:       
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 313,500 - GBP
   II.1.6) Information about lots:
      This contract is divided into lots: No          
      Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: Not Provided       
      The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots: Not Provided

II.2) Lot Description    
   II.2.3) Place of performance:       
      Region Codes:               
         UKH31 - Southend-on-Sea    
   II.2.4) Description of the procurement:       
      Develop a large number of specialist community volunteers to: Support families where children are identified as Children In Need or with Child Protection Plans to develop the confidence and skills required to self-manage and help their families to thrive /Support those families to develop parenting skills which support improved outcomes for their children/ Enhance offer given by The Council’s Early Help Family Support & YOS service for families and children /Offer families support to enable families to ‘step down’ from Social Care, when appropriate due to a reduction of need and harm /Support the Council re-unification of children with their families /Evaluate the impact of this service on families /Offer long term volunteer support to families with de-escalating needs to embed long term changes which benefit children and families /Use community knowledge, to advise and develop innovative schemes that are part of the Council’s Early Intervention and Prevention offer    
   II.2.14) Additional information          
      If you are interested in this potential opportunity, please email procurementops@southend.gov.uk quoting ESF/2018 by 5:00pm on12th September 2018. If there is interest, an Open Tender procedure may be adopted. If there is no interest expressed or request to participate, the Council will use regulation 32 of the PCR (2015) to award a contract to the current provider for a maximum period of 3years.    


II.3) Estimated Date of publication
         29/08/2018
      
      
Section IV: Procedure   

IV.1) Description       
   IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA )
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) - NO

Section VI: Complementary Information    
VI.3) Additional Information:       
   To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.paessex.gov.uk/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=342125920
GO-2018829-PRO-13099895 TKR-2018829-PRO-13099894        

VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 29/08/2018