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Award

17 Feb 2023 at 09:52

TenderUpdate

05 Oct 2022 at 14:10

Planning

05 Oct 2022 at 13:42

Summary of the contracting process

The Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) tender, led by Devon County Council, offers opportunities for business growth in the health and social work services category. The tender aims to increase sufficiency of placements for children and young people within the Peninsula region, with a focus on achieving positive outcomes and placement stability. The procurement process includes two active lots, with a total contract value of £311,745,000 for Lot 1 and £124,698,000 for Lot 2. The deadline for submissions is 4th November 2022.

This tender presents opportunities for businesses specialising in residential care services to compete for placements within the Peninsula region. Suppliers must adhere to stipulated selection criteria and meet qualitative assessments to participate in the FPS. The transparent pricing and continual open framework aim to enhance value for money for placing authorities. The buying organisation, Devon County Council, is facilitating the tender process to enable high-quality care placements for children and young people in need.

How relevant is this notice?

Notice Title

CP2216-22 Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)

Notice Description

The aim of this service is to increase sufficiency of high quality placements to enable children and young people to remain as close to their home community as possible. This is based on the principle of accessing the right placement at the right time. Placements offer an asset-based model of service, where the child or young person is supported to achieve positive outcomes, with a focus on supporting placement stability and Permanence. The Flexible Purchasing System aims to achieve improved value for money for placing authorities through greater transparency of pricing and competition through call-off. The proposal is for this to be a continually open purchasing system, the aim to speed up the process for new homes to become available for placements by the authorities.

Lot Information

Lot 1 Standard Residential Placements (Individual and Block Placements)

These will enable children to live in residential homes, where they will receive high quality care in a safe and enriching environment, supporting a broad range of needs, including emotional and behavioural issues, sexualised behaviours, and physical disabilities. Understanding of the difficulties children may have experienced and how this may present, will require a therapeutic parenting approach. Services will be needed for a variety of reasons and durations. It is intended that residential children's homes are not used as an end destination for children in care; but are used appropriately to enable stability, safety and support to children and young people so that they can be supported towards family reunification where it is safe and appropriate, step forward to a family foster home, build their interdependence for early adulthood, and always having high aspirations for them. Additional information: This provision is being procured under Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) - Social and Other Specific Services (also known as 'the light touch regime') and this procurement does not follow, in particular, any of the defined procedures of the PCR 2015 (even if there are similarities) but does seek to adhere to the best practice procurement principles of Openness, Transparency, Fairness and Equity. This contract has been set up as a Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) under the Light Touch Regime. To be included on the FPS, Applicants will have to satisfy the Authority that they meet the stipulated selection criteria; this will be assessed through the evaluation of the answers given in response to the exclusion questions and the general qualitative selection questions. Provisions are to be Ofsted Registered (or equivalent outside England) and Ofsted rated "Requires Improvement" or above or compliant with the relevant equivalent requirements

Lot 2 Innovation and Partnership Working (Optional Lot)

This Lot is intended to allow commissioners to design, and with the providers, deliver bespoke services designed to meet complex needs that are not easily met through standard residential care. One way could be through a competitive conversation to enable specialist support to be put in place in response to a child or young person's individual needs, with additional elements reflected within the individual placement agreement (IPA). This type of approach will also create scope for targeted, developmental work with our providers to develop a multi-disciplinary model of residential assessment provision for children and young people in crisis, which will focus on meeting the needs of children who experience high placement instability. Additional information: This provision is being procured under Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) - Social and Other Specific Services (also known as 'the light touch regime') and this procurement does not follow, in particular, any of the defined procedures of the PCR 2015 (even if there are similarities) but does seek to adhere to the best practice procurement principles of Openness, Transparency, Fairness and Equity. This contract has been set up as a Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) under the Light Touch Regime. To be included on the FPS, Applicants will have to satisfy the Authority that they meet the stipulated selection criteria; this will be assessed through the evaluation of the answers given in response to the exclusion questions and the general qualitative selection questions. Provisions are to be Ofsted Registered (or equivalent outside England) and Ofsted rated "Requires Improvement" or above or compliant with the relevant equivalent requirements

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-037327
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004847-2023
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Planning, Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Planning Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services

98 - Other community, social and personal services


CPV Codes

85000000 - Health and social work services

98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
£436,443,000 £100M-£1B
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
17 Feb 20233 years ago
Submission Deadline
4 Nov 2022Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
17 Feb 20233 years ago
Contract Period
1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2028 Over 5 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Active
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Devon County Council
Additional Buyers

Plymouth City Council

Somerset County Council

Torbay Council

Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
EXETER
Postcode
EX2 4QD
Postcode Area
Exeter
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLK South West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLK4 Devon
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLK43 Devon CC
Delivery Location
TLK23 Somerset CC, TLK4 Devon

Local Authority
Exeter
Electoral Ward
Newtown and St Leonard's
Westminster Constituency
Exeter

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
15
Supplier Names

Acorn Education and Care Services Ltd

Aspris Children's Services Limited

Birchwood Independence Ltd

Cambian Childcare Limited

Central & Southern Homes

Central and Southern Homes

Five Rivers Child Care Limited

Headway Adolescent Resources Ltd

IDEM Living Ltd

Keys PCE Limited

Mutual Care Limited

Mutual Care Ltd

Next Step Independence Ltd

Phoenix Childcare Ltd

Phoenix Learning and Care Limited

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