Planning

Short Breaks and support services for disabled children, young people and their families

LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

This public procurement record has 3 releases in its history.

PlanningUpdate

10 Jun 2025 at 12:20

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Planning

03 Jun 2025 at 09:50

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Planning

23 May 2025 at 11:05

UK1 - Pipeline Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The London Borough of Camden, in collaboration with the London Borough of Islington, is planning to launch a procurement process to commission Short Breaks and support services for disabled children, young people, and their families. The procurement focus is on services in the health and social work category, aiming to provide creative, stimulating, and co-designed activities for these children within local communities. A market engagement event is scheduled for 18th June 2025, offering potential bidders the opportunity to discuss future commissioning needs. This process is still in the planning stage, and the anticipated start date for the contract period is 1st April 2026. This initiative is situated in London’s UKI31 region, with a projected contract value of £6,000,000. Interested parties are encouraged to attend the engagement event via Microsoft Teams for further insight into the procurement intentions.

The upcoming tender provides a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in health and social work services, particularly those with expertise in working with disabled children and young people. This framework seeks to include multiple providers, emphasising the importance of social activities, skills development, and preparing children for adulthood. Both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are deemed suitable to participate, underscoring the councils’ commitment to inclusive procurement practices. By engaging in this tender, businesses can expand their services into a vital community sector, fostering growth and establishing impactful partnerships with local authorities. Providers with innovative approaches to addressing gaps in provision and delivering high-quality, specialised services are particularly encouraged to contribute to Camden and Islington's joint commissioning strategy.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Short Breaks and support services for disabled children, young people and their families

Notice Description

This is a Preliminary Market Engagement to notify suppliers that Camden and Islington Councils are exploring the opportunity to jointly procure Short Breaks and support services for disabled children, young people and their families. The Short Breaks service offers targeted support for disabled children and young people whose needs cannot be met in mainstream settings and who need more specialist help due to their disability. The services help to ensure that disabled children and young people have an opportunity to succeed and to reach their potential, while providing respite for families and carers.

Planning Information

The market engagement event will be held on Wednesday 18th June at 10:30am - 12:30pm on Microsoft Teams to discuss future commissioning of short break provisions for our children with disabilities. Both boroughs seek to appoint a number of providers to the Framework. Our core Short Breaks offer will consist of regular sessions to support children and young people with disabilities to have regular access to a provision which offers a range of creative, stimulating, fun and co-designed activities within our local communities including support to access mainstream activities for Children and Young People the overarching aim being for our Children to build self-esteem and confidence to help them reach their potential. Short Breaks will be a combination of sessions after school, evening, weekends and during school and college holidays. The aim of the Market Engagement event is to provide information to prospective bidders about our children's needs and the proposed lots. We are seeking to gain feedback especially around gaps in provision, the proposed lots and potential barriers to service delivery. Additionally, we also want to receive feedback about our Boroughs joint commissioning the Short Breaks Framework. It is our aim to have a Short Break offer for Children 0-18/19 which will be a combination of community outreach and group-based activities and a support offer for their families. For Children aged 0-5 in Camden, we seek to commission a Portage type service to support families to develop a quality of life for themselves which includes participation within their own community and stay and play group activities. For Children aged 5-12, we seek to commission a combination of both community outreach and group-based activities that which takes account of individual children's needs and desires in safe and friendly environments that provides opportunities for Children to play and socialise with their peers. We also seek to commission a Youth offer that will be a combination of community outreach and group based that will deliver: - • skills-based activities to enable children to develop and pursue their personal interests, aspirations and build on their talents through a variety of opportunities such as computer skills, art, gardening, cooking, drama, music and sports • social activities which are co-designed and understanding individual children's needs • Activities which support young people to prepare for adulthood such as independent living skills, money management, travel training and being healthy. During the Market Engagement event, we will share information with participants pertaining to the numbers and needs of our children, the prospective Lots and types of provision we are considering for the contracts and the budget envelope. We would like to understand from providers: - - What barriers and opportunities there will be in commissioning short breaks - Feedback on the proposed Lots and anything further we should consider - Thoughts on the proposed contract price - Participants view of joint commissioning the contracts - Any further aims and objectives Short Break contracts should include. If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to attend the Market Engagement event, please complete and return the registration form through ProContracts (project reference number DN776561 or email helen.mannion@camden.gov.uk New link to ProContracts: https://procontract.due-north.com/RFx/RFxSummary?rfxId=6afaa066-f045-f011-8138-005056b64545&markSuppliersIncomplete=False

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0521e0
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/031252-2025
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
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
£6,000,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
10 Jun 20258 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
1 Sep 2025Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
31 Mar 2026 - 31 Mar 2029 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

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

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN
Additional Buyers

LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON

Contact Name
Alan Loviette, Helen Mannion
Contact Email
alan.loviette2@islington.gov.uk, helen.mannion@camden.gov.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
WC1H 9JE
Post Town
Central London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI4 Inner London - East
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI43 Haringey and Islington
Delivery Location
TLI31 Camden and City of London
Local Authority
Islington
Electoral Ward
St Mary's & St James'
Westminster Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury

Further Information

Notice Documents

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