--- title: "Children Looked After Sufficiency and Fostering Residential" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-45b51f23-570e-44f4-9c95-582931c28c73" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-45b51f23-570e-44f4-9c95-582931c28c73" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-45b51f23-570e-44f4-9c95-582931c28c73.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-45b51f23-570e-44f4-9c95-582931c28c73.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "LEEDS CITY COUNCIL" published: "2024-11-04" --- # Children Looked After Sufficiency and Fostering Residential Buyer: LEEDS CITY COUNCIL Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-45b51f23-570e-44f4-9c95-582931c28c73 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-45b51f23-570e-44f4-9c95-582931c28c73) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-45b51f23-570e-44f4-9c95-582931c28c73.json) ## Summary Leeds City Council is conducting a procurement process titled "Children Looked After Sufficiency and Fostering Residential," focusing on the social work and related services industry. The Council seeks to address challenges in providing appropriate placement types for Children Looked After, including fostering and residential care. The procurement is at the tender stage, with a market sounding exercise to gather information, scheduled to end on 29th November 2024. An interested provider event is set for 11th November 2024 via Microsoft Teams. This procurement covers regions including the British Overseas Territories, Channel Islands, Europe, Isle of Man, the rest of the world, and the United Kingdom. This opportunity can enable businesses specialising in children's fostering and residential care to expand their service offerings and work with Leeds City Council. SMEs and VCSEs with relevant experience and expertise are particularly encouraged to participate, as the Council is exploring future contractual arrangements for comprehensive children’s care provisions. The procurement method details are not specified, but businesses can contribute feedback on the proposed approach through a provided questionnaire, lending insights that may influence the final procurement strategy. ## Notice Leeds City Council along with its partners, is seeking to address significant challenges in the increasing numbers of Children Looked After; increasing challenges on ensuring the correct and appropriate mix of placement types (internal fostering, Independent Fostering Agencies, internal residential accommodation, external residential accommodation etc.); increasing cost of and scarcity of external residential accommodation and at times challenging outcomes for our children. As part of the Leeds Sufficiency Strategy, we are exploring potential procurement options for future contractual arrangements with suitably qualified and experienced organisations to deliver provision for children looked after, specifically: - Childrens fostering provision - Childrens residential provision - Wraparound placement support To support this, we would like to gain information from the market regarding a number of issues related to the potential procurement exercise. You are therefore invited to consider the programme requirements detailed in this document, and complete the attached questionnaire to give us your feedback on the proposed approach. * Please note the contract start and end dates do not apply as this is a market sounding exercise. INTERESTED PROVIDER EVENT - VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS Any information from these events will be published on Yortender for any person who cannot attend the events. 11th November 2024 - 12:30 - 13:00 - see Market Sounding documentation for the Teams link details. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1bd43d2e-3019-44e8-8491-0ef72f2560cf | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not applicable | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 4 Nov 2024 | | Submission deadline | 29 Nov 2024 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 30 Nov 2024 - 1 Dec 2024 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | LEEDS CITY COUNCIL | | Locality | LEEDS | | Post town | Leeds | | Postcode | LS1 1UR | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber | | ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire | | ITL 3 | TLE42 Leeds | | Local authority | Leeds | | Electoral ward | Little London & Woodhouse | | Westminster constituency | Leeds Central and Headingley | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85300000 - Social work and related services - 85310000 - Social work services ## Release History - 4 Nov 2024 at 12:41 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1bd43d2e-3019-44e8-8491-0ef72f2560cf ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1bd43d2e-3019-44e8-8491-0ef72f2560cf 4th November 2024 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=87306&B=UK Additional data - https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/104105 User / Company ## Notice URLs - https://www.leeds.gov.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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