Planning

Ealing Children's Day and Community Short Breaks

LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING

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02 Feb 2023 at 13:56

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11 Mar 2022 at 14:34

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Summary of the contracting process

The London Borough of Ealing is planning to procure a Dynamic Purchasing Vehicle for Children's Day & Community Short Breaks in 2023. The procurement aims to offer diverse support services for children with additional needs. Interested providers can participate in a market engagement exercise, with a questionnaire submission deadline on 20th February 2023. The Council plans to call off services for varying staffing ratios between 5:1 and 1:1, catering to individual children or groups of children.

This tender from the London Borough of Ealing provides valuable opportunities for businesses that offer non-residential short breaks, domiciliary care and Direct Payments for children with additional needs. Businesses suited for this tender should focus on providing high-quality services that ensure value for money, support innovative solutions, and cater to varying staffing ratios. The market engagement exercise invites feedback to shape the future service delivery strategy and commissioning of short breaks for children and families.

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Notice Title

Ealing Children's Day and Community Short Breaks

Notice Description

The London Borough of Ealing currently spends approximately PS3.8 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).

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
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Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cbc61c48-648c-43ed-8ea5-f989730b3f0e
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Planned Procurement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Not specified
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services


CPV Codes

85000000 - Health and social work services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£26,000,000 £10M-£100M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
2 Feb 20233 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
3 Feb 2023Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
31 Mar 2024 - 31 Mar 2029 Over 5 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING
Contact Name
Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Contact Email
Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Contact Phone
Available with D3 Tenders Premium →

Buyer Location

Locality
EALING
Postcode
W5 2HL
Post Town
West London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI7 Outer London - West and North West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI73 Ealing
Delivery Location
TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)

Local Authority
Ealing
Electoral Ward
Ealing Broadway
Westminster Constituency
Ealing Central and Acton

Further Information

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