Notice Information
Notice Title
Legal services, due diligence services and financial and governance advice
Notice Description
The Local Authority Interventions Unit from the Department for Education are seeking to increase the current market of due diligence, legal services suppliers and financial and governance advisers for when interventions are escalated into a Children's Services Trust. Children's Services Trusts are created as an intervention in the event of a service failure, under direction from DfE, with clear expectations and legal agreements about service scope, ownership and control. The Department have two 'enforced' Trusts to date (Doncaster and Slough), with another enforced Trust currently being set up (Sandwell). As part of the set up for these kinds of projects, depending on the level of risk and/or cooperation from the local authority, the Department needs to draw on external services such as, legal services and due diligence services. For existing Children's Services Trusts, expert financial and governance advice has been needed to give the new organisation the financial resilience and appropriate governance structures to perform well. Additional information: It is anticipated that this market engagement exercise will incorporate a supplier engagement event for interested parties during September 2017, currently scheduled for Monday 18 September. Please email faye.skelton@education.gov.uk for further details, with 'DPS open procurement supplier event' in the title. The invitation to register on the DfE's Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) will go out on 18 September 2017. Please note this does not equate to a formal expression of interest in any future procurement activity.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a0e1e962-4f08-49b4-8ef7-339ef27d28e0
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8f026f93-e76c-4b5f-8260-209d8537621e
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Dynamic
- Procurement Category
- Not specified
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
66 - Financial and insurance services
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
66171000 - Financial consultancy services
79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Jan 20188 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 18 Sep 2017Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1P 3BT
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8f026f93-e76c-4b5f-8260-209d8537621e
10th January 2018 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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