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# Children's Innovation Partnership

Buyer: LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-38c785be-fac1-4e42-a4fb-eb505b81c113

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## Summary

Leicestershire County Council has completed the procurement process for the "Children's Innovation Partnership," aimed at enhancing services for Looked After Children (LAC) and children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) across East Midlands, United Kingdom. This open tender process initiated a collaboration agreement with the intent to deliver creative, cost-effective service models aligned with the Council's Care Placement Strategy. The award was made on 6th November 2018, with the contract running from 1st December 2018 to 30th November 2019. The estimated total value of the contract is £704 million over a 10-year period, with an initial annual budget of £70.4 million.

This tender presents substantial growth opportunities for businesses specialising in innovative children's services, particularly those with experience in edge of care, fostering, and support for care leavers. Organisations that are well-suited to compete for this contract include large voluntary, community, and social enterprises that can contribute both financial and in-kind resources. The successful partner will need to demonstrate a solid track record of providing high-quality services that improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people in the region.

## Notice

Leicestershire County Council wishes to procure a Partner to develop a "Children's Innovation Partnership" (CIP) to design and deliver creative service models, which provide cost effective outcome focussed solutions, to meet the aims of the Council's Care Placement Strategy (CPS). The initial priorities will be to offer good quality cost effective residential care to meet the needs of Looked After Children (LAC) with complex behaviours and disabilities and to provide additional capacity to enhance edge of care services. The CPS covers the whole care system from point of entry in Children's Services to leaving care and aims to manage demand and provide the most cost effective placement and support services that deliver the best outcomes for children and young people. The Council wishes to enter into a collaboration agreement with an organisation or lead organisation acting for a consortium that can both design and deliver innovative services that provide improved outcomes for Leicestershire young people on the edge of care through to leaving care including children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The CIP will include 3 stages: - design, - delivery and - evaluation. The Council expects the Partner to be able to bring its own financial or in kind contribution to the design stage and to the delivery stage to enhance the Councils statutory requirements in providing services to LAC and children with Send. The Partner must have both the capacity to provide high quality advice and deliver major change in children's services. It is expected that the Partner will have the experience, expertise and quality standards to deliver the majority of services designed by the CIP and therefore must have a proven track record in providing children's services for edge of care, fostering, adoption, permanence and care leavers. The estimated annual value is 70 400 000 GBP this is based on the 2018/19 budgets for the services covered by the CIP. The estimated total value is 704 000 000 GBP over 10 years. It is not intended that the full budget for each service area will be spent through the CIP. The Council will continue to use existing contracts and frameworks to purchase services. The scope and cost for each service delivered through the CIP will be agreed between the Council and the Partner as part of the design stage and will be within the budget envelope for existing services. The contract duration will be an initial 1 year plus options to extend for a further period or periods up to a maximum of 10 years

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9ef6ebcc-d243-4bad-af11-7279337f2fdf |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 15 Nov 2018 |
| Submission deadline | 24 Sep 2018 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 6 Nov 2018 |
| Contract period | 1 Dec 2018 - 30 Nov 2019 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £704,000,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £704,000,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Locality | LEICESTER |
| Post town | Leicester |
| Postcode | LE3 8RA |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLF East Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLF2 Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire |
| ITL 3 | TLF22 Leicestershire CC and Rutland |
| Local authority | Blaby |
| Electoral ward | Glenfield Faire |
| Westminster constituency | Mid Leicestershire |
| Delivery location | TLF East Midlands (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | BARNARDO'S |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services
- 85 - Health and social work services
- 98 - Other community, social and personal services

### Codes

- 80000000 - Education and training services
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

## Release History

- 15 Nov 2018 at 13:27 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9ef6ebcc-d243-4bad-af11-7279337f2fdf

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9ef6ebcc-d243-4bad-af11-7279337f2fdf
  15th November 2018 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder

## Notice URLs

- http://www.leicestershire.gov.uk

## Provenance

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