Notice Information
Notice Title
Behaviour Support Service for Families
Notice Description
Norfolk County Council was looking to commission a new service that will use a Positive Behaviour (PBS) informed approach to provide targeted assistance to 10 - 15 children per year, particularly for those children at risk of entering long-term care placements, by addressing behaviour that challenge regardless of the root cause or diagnosis. The service is for children and young people up to age 18 with behaviour that challenges those around them and requires a holistic and whole family approach, delivered to their parents, carers and other people in their natural network as required
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: The Contract may be extended by up to 12 months at the Council's discretion
Planning Information
There will be two Market Engagement sessions held, whereby providers will have the opportunity to help shape the service offer: Market engagement 1: Design & Refine Session (30th July 2025 10am-12pm) This is for providers of PBS and will be supported by relevant representatives from social care, education & health services. Discussion points will be: • How might we refine our criteria for support? • When is a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) approach most and least effective for children and young people (CYP) and their families? • Current support structures • What should we consider when identifying and managing referrals? • How might the service operate in practice? • In what ways could the service be designed to operate flexibly? • How will we define and manage success? • How might the service operate in practice? • Consider the who, what, where, when, and how-including key inputs and intended outputs. • In what ways could the service be designed to operate flexibly? • Think about responsiveness to need, adaptability, and scalability. • How will we define and manage success? Market engagement 2: Service Proposition (12th August 2025 1pm -3pm) Discussion points: • Context & Service Proposition • Procurement Information • Questions & Answers • Final Feedback Opportunity Interested parties will need to register their interest for the market engagement on In-Tend and a separate invite will be sent. Applicants must first be registered on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc) Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfiles (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfile). Once registered you will be able to see the procurement project under 'tenders' section and 'express an interest'. Please then use the correspondence facility to let us know that you are interested in attending a market engagement session(s). The procurement, once issued, will also be managed via In-Tend.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-055ec4
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079254-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Large
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
- £1,200,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £1,200,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- £858,715 £500K-£1M
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Dec 20253 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- 17 Oct 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 17 Sep 2025Expired
- Award Date
- 3 Dec 20254 days ago
- Contract Period
- 2 Jan 2026 - 1 Jan 2029 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- NORWICH
- Postcode
- NR1 2DH
- Post Town
- Norwich
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH5 Norfolk
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH51 Norwich and East Norfolk
- Delivery Location
- TLH15 Norwich and East Norfolk, TLH16 North and West Norfolk, TLH17 Breckland and South Norfolk
-
- Local Authority
- Norwich
- Electoral Ward
- Lakenham
- Westminster Constituency
- Norwich South
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079254-2025
3rd December 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057342-2025
17th September 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039695-2025
14th July 2025 - Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039693-2025
14th July 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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