--- title: "Family Innovation Fund (2023-2026) - Solution Focused Support" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-8e0e132b-e0c5-401b-ac8d-10790a78dfc1" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-8e0e132b-e0c5-401b-ac8d-10790a78dfc1" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-8e0e132b-e0c5-401b-ac8d-10790a78dfc1.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-8e0e132b-e0c5-401b-ac8d-10790a78dfc1.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL" published: "2022-10-21" --- # Family Innovation Fund (2023-2026) - Solution Focused Support Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-8e0e132b-e0c5-401b-ac8d-10790a78dfc1 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-8e0e132b-e0c5-401b-ac8d-10790a78dfc1) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-8e0e132b-e0c5-401b-ac8d-10790a78dfc1.json) ## Summary The Essex County Council has published a tender for the Family Innovation Fund (2023-2026) - Solution Focused Support. This tender falls under the "services" industry category. The tender, with ID ECC001-DN639234-55386836, has a total value of £720,000 and an open procurement method with details given as an Open procedure. The tender period ends on December 16, 2022, and the contract period starts on April 1, 2023, and ends on March 31, 2026. Suppliers are expected to deliver the services in the East of England region. This opportunity presents a chance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage with the Essex County Council in delivering Brief Solution Focussed Support to children, young people, parents/carers, and families. Businesses providing services in social work and related services or membership organisation services are well-suited to compete for this tender. The council aims to work with partners to improve outcomes through early intervention, benefiting those in need across Essex, with a particular focus on levelling up areas. The opportunity allows for potential contract extensions and outlines conditions for fund disbursement. ## Notice The Family Innovation Fund enables ECC to work with its partners in the voluntary and community sector to deliver good outcomes as early as possible. The services will not support those children, young people and families already known to and in receipt of support from specialist and statutory services, rather they will ensure delivery of support that complements, not duplicates existing services such as; * School funded support at additional levels of need * Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service * Essex Integrated Wellbeing Service * Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service * Family Solutions By Early Intervention we mean stopping something occurring or getting worse and for the purposes of this funding will provide brief, light touch interventions that will enable children, young people, parents and carers to draw on their own resources and resilience to resolve future problems. This Grant is concerned with working with children and young people, parents/carers and families who will benefit from receiving support by way of Brief Solution Focussed Support (BSFS) such as coaching, mediation, conflict resolution, counselling, through 1:1, group and family/parent/couples work. This will usually take place in face to face however, it may also take place using on-line platforms if that is deemed appropriate, for example during holiday periods or weekends/evenings. The total Family Innovation Fund is PS1,200,000 over three years, with PS720,000 allocated to BSFS through 1:1, group and family/couples work. Year 1 2023/24 PS300,000 Year 2 2024/25 PS210,000 Year 3 2025/26 PS210,000 BSFS will be delivered across Essex but priority will be given to The Essex Levelling Up areas set out in the table in 6.1 to support the delivery of our levelling ambitions and Everyone's Essex Plan Everyones Essex There will be provision within the Grant Agreement, at the discretion of ECC to extend the grants for up to two years on a one plus one year basis. There will be further provision for the value to be varied within any extension up to the original year one value namely PS300,000. Provision in the Grant Agreement (clause 12) outlines the conditions under which ECC will either withhold or claim back funds paid to the provider. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ddf600bd-8f46-4d09-a815-bf79e6913da5 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 21 Oct 2022 | | Submission deadline | 16 Dec 2022 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Mar 2023 - 31 Mar 2026 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £720,000 | | 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 | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL | | Locality | CHELMSFORD | | Post town | Chelmsford | | Postcode | CM1 1QH | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLH East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex | | ITL 3 | TLH36 Heart of Essex | | Local authority | Chelmsford | | Electoral ward | Moulsham and Central | | Westminster constituency | Chelmsford | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services - 98 - Other community, social and personal services ### Codes - 85300000 - Social work and related services - 98100000 - Membership organisation services - 98900000 - Services provided by extra-territorial organisations and bodies ## Release History - 21 Oct 2022 at 15:36 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ddf600bd-8f46-4d09-a815-bf79e6913da5 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ddf600bd-8f46-4d09-a815-bf79e6913da5 21st October 2022 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=1387bde2-3c51-ed11-811a-005056b64545 Advert ## Notice URLs - https://www.essex.gov.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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