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con_23980 - Delivery Partner Support Contract (Early Years and Wraparound Childcare)

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

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02 Feb 2024 at 14:07

Tender

12 Oct 2023 at 16:33

Summary of the contracting process

The Department for Education has recently awarded the "Delivery Partner Support Contract (Early Years and Wraparound Childcare)" to Mott MacDonald Limited. This contract, valued at £6,814,923, involves providing specialist support to local authorities in the UK to enhance early years and wraparound childcare sufficiency. The aim is to assist authorities in meeting their expanded entitlements, with a focus on delivering high-quality childcare support. The procurement method used was an open procedure, and the contract was signed on 23rd January 2024.

This opportunity seeks bids from businesses specialising in research and development services along with consultancy services. Companies capable of providing expert guidance and innovative solutions to support local authorities in delivering childcare services are well-suited to compete. The contract period runs until March 2026, with an optional extension period available. Interested businesses should consider leveraging their technical expertise and quality solutions to meet the tender's evaluation criteria centred on technical and commercial evaluations.

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Notice Title

con_23980 - Delivery Partner Support Contract (Early Years and Wraparound Childcare)

Notice Description

The purpose of this procurement is to provide the requirements for a contract to provide specialist support for local authorities (LAs) to enable them to deliver: a) their Early Years (EY) and wraparound childcare sufficiency duties; b) the expansion to the EY entitlements announced at the 2023 Spring Budget; and c) the wraparound childcare programme announced at the 2023 Spring Budget.

Lot Information

Lot 1

LAs are integral to the delivery of these programmes but require additional support to ensure they are in the best possible position to provide flexible and appropriate childcare in their areas. This tender seeks innovative bids from Potential Suppliers able to provide LAs with the advice, guidance and support they need to implement the reforms in their areas and overcome any challenges that could hinder implementation. The successful Supplier will support 153 LAs (Unitary, Metropolitan Boroughs, London Boroughs, and County Councils). The contract covers England only. The Supplier will provide expert support for LAs to support them to increase their capacity and expertise to deliver, supporting LAs to meet delivery milestones. This support will sit alongside support and guidance provided by DfE, to ensure LAs are able to meet their sufficiency duties for the expanded EY entitlements and deliver the wraparound childcare programme. All support provided through this contract should enable LAs to sustain activity beyond the life of this contract (i.e., beyond March 2026). This support contract sits across both EY and the wraparound programme to ensure LAs receive joined-up support across both areas where required, to better enable authorities and DfE to realise synergies across the programmes, and to mitigate potential workload impacts for LAs. Where possible, and where this will support LAs most effectively, the requirements outlined in this section should be delivered jointly between both programmes. While most requirements across the two programmes are broadly aligned, they differ with regard to the national monitoring of delivery. The wraparound programme requires a national delivery monitoring function involving the regular collection of LAs' delivery plans. This is because wraparound is a novel programme requiring potentially new activity for LAs, and regular delivery plan submissions are a condition of their grant funding. However, the related EY requirement differs because DfE already collects significant amounts of data about EY delivery and will therefore monitor national readiness and sufficiency in-house, with support and input from the Supplier. We welcome innovative bids that go beyond the requirements outlined in this specification where that can more effectively support LAs and have developed our scoring criteria with this in mind.

Options: Optional extension period of up to 12 months.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-040b8b
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003551-2024
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

75 - Administration, defence and social security services


CPV Codes

73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

75100000 - Administration services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£6,850,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£6,814,923 £1M-£10M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
2 Feb 20242 years ago
Submission Deadline
13 Nov 2023Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
23 Jan 20242 years ago
Contract Period
8 Jan 2024 - 31 Mar 2026 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

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

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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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

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

MOTT MACDONALD

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