--- title: "0 - 5 Home Support Service This is not a call for Competition- Market Testing Questionnaire" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-48200572-082a-48e7-a56f-d09cbf76b0ee" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-48200572-082a-48e7-a56f-d09cbf76b0ee" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-48200572-082a-48e7-a56f-d09cbf76b0ee.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-48200572-082a-48e7-a56f-d09cbf76b0ee.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL" published: "2024-09-12" --- # 0 - 5 Home Support Service This is not a call for Competition- Market Testing Questionnaire Buyer: DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-48200572-082a-48e7-a56f-d09cbf76b0ee [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-48200572-082a-48e7-a56f-d09cbf76b0ee) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-48200572-082a-48e7-a56f-d09cbf76b0ee.json) ## Summary Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is currently in the planning stage of a procurement process titled "0 - 5 Home Support Service - Market Testing Questionnaire" for social work and related services in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. This initiative, which aims to support families with children under 5 years of age, is part of a soft market testing exercise intended to inform future commissioning arrangements and procurement. The market engagement phase concludes on 12 December 2024, with responses to the provided questionnaire due by 30 September 2024. This is not a formal call for competition but an opportunity to gather insights and refine the service specification. This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in social work and volunteer-based family support services. Companies that offer training and volunteer management, particularly those experienced in delivering tailored family support packages, will find this engagement beneficial. Participation in this market testing can provide valuable insights into upcoming procurement processes, allowing businesses to align their services with the council's requirements and ultimately enhance their competitiveness in future tenders. ## Notice The overarching aim of the service is to support families with at least one child under 5 to enable children to have the best start in life. The service currently recruits and trains volunteers, who are typically parents themselves, to support families in need of extra help. Packages of support are tailored to meet the needs of each family individually and volunteers are 'matched' with their families to ensure they receive the right support. Typically, each volunteer will provide regular weekly sessions of up to 2 hours per session. Volunteers stay with the family for an agreed amount of time which is on some occasions up to a year in length. This is to ensure agreed outcomes are achieved. This questionnaire is part of a soft market testing exercise to inform potential commissioning arrangements and procurement of a 0 - 5 home support service in the borough. Responses from this questionnaire will be considered in the redesign of the service and the refinement of the service specification as well as the terms and conditions of the contract. We are seeking written responses to the questions set out in the questionnaire below. Whilst there is no obligation to answer all questions, and all answers are for information purposes only, we would encourage your cooperation to respond to as many of the questions as possible. The deadline for the submission of your completed questionnaires is Monday 30th September 2024. Following the receipt of completed questionnaires, the Council may seek to follow up and to invite you to participate in virtual discussion. The information gathered from this exercise will help shape future proposals including any potential tendering process and associated service specification. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to carrying out such a process. Participation or non-participation in the pre-procurement market engagement process shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the pre-procurement process shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in the pre-procurement market engagement procurement process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by the Council. This is not a call for competition. Additional information: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/blackcountryportal/aspx/Home Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/932fea4b-5f81-44ef-9a6d-cc5cf746da07 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 12 Sep 2024 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 12 Dec 2024 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £57,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL | | Locality | WEST MIDLANDS | | Post town | Dudley | | Postcode | DY1 1HF | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands | | ITL 3 | TLG36 Dudley | | Local authority | Dudley | | Electoral ward | St. James's | | Westminster constituency | Dudley | | Delivery location | TLG West Midlands (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85300000 - Social work and related services ## Release History - 12 Sep 2024 at 13:51 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/932fea4b-5f81-44ef-9a6d-cc5cf746da07 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/932fea4b-5f81-44ef-9a6d-cc5cf746da07 12th September 2024 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/blackcountryportal/aspx/ Additional information on how to apply for this contract ## Notice URLs - http://www.dudley.gov.uk - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/blackcountryportal/aspx/Home ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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