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title: "CP2216-22 Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-037327"
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# CP2216-22 Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)

Buyer: DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-037327

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## Summary

The Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) tender, led by Devon County Council, offers opportunities for business growth in the health and social work services category. The tender aims to increase sufficiency of placements for children and young people within the Peninsula region, with a focus on achieving positive outcomes and placement stability. The procurement process includes two active lots, with a total contract value of £311,745,000 for Lot 1 and £124,698,000 for Lot 2. The deadline for submissions is 4th November 2022.

This tender presents opportunities for businesses specialising in residential care services to compete for placements within the Peninsula region. Suppliers must adhere to stipulated selection criteria and meet qualitative assessments to participate in the FPS. The transparent pricing and continual open framework aim to enhance value for money for placing authorities. The buying organisation, Devon County Council, is facilitating the tender process to enable high-quality care placements for children and young people in need.

## Notice

The aim of this service is to increase sufficiency of high quality placements to enable children and young people to remain as close to their home community as possible. This is based on the principle of accessing the right placement at the right time. Placements offer an asset-based model of service, where the child or young person is supported to achieve positive outcomes, with a focus on supporting placement stability and Permanence. The Flexible Purchasing System aims to achieve improved value for money for placing authorities through greater transparency of pricing and competition through call-off. The proposal is for this to be a continually open purchasing system, the aim to speed up the process for new homes to become available for placements by the authorities.

### Lot Information

Lot 1 Standard Residential Placements (Individual and Block Placements)

These will enable children to live in residential homes, where they will receive high quality care in a safe and enriching environment, supporting a broad range of needs, including emotional and behavioural issues, sexualised behaviours, and physical disabilities. Understanding of the difficulties children may have experienced and how this may present, will require a therapeutic parenting approach. Services will be needed for a variety of reasons and durations. It is intended that residential children's homes are not used as an end destination for children in care; but are used appropriately to enable stability, safety and support to children and young people so that they can be supported towards family reunification where it is safe and appropriate, step forward to a family foster home, build their interdependence for early adulthood, and always having high aspirations for them. Additional information: This provision is being procured under Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) - Social and Other Specific Services (also known as 'the light touch regime') and this procurement does not follow, in particular, any of the defined procedures of the PCR 2015 (even if there are similarities) but does seek to adhere to the best practice procurement principles of Openness, Transparency, Fairness and Equity. This contract has been set up as a Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) under the Light Touch Regime. To be included on the FPS, Applicants will have to satisfy the Authority that they meet the stipulated selection criteria; this will be assessed through the evaluation of the answers given in response to the exclusion questions and the general qualitative selection questions. Provisions are to be Ofsted Registered (or equivalent outside England) and Ofsted rated "Requires Improvement" or above or compliant with the relevant equivalent requirements

Lot 2 Innovation and Partnership Working (Optional Lot)

This Lot is intended to allow commissioners to design, and with the providers, deliver bespoke services designed to meet complex needs that are not easily met through standard residential care. One way could be through a competitive conversation to enable specialist support to be put in place in response to a child or young person's individual needs, with additional elements reflected within the individual placement agreement (IPA). This type of approach will also create scope for targeted, developmental work with our providers to develop a multi-disciplinary model of residential assessment provision for children and young people in crisis, which will focus on meeting the needs of children who experience high placement instability. Additional information: This provision is being procured under Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) - Social and Other Specific Services (also known as 'the light touch regime') and this procurement does not follow, in particular, any of the defined procedures of the PCR 2015 (even if there are similarities) but does seek to adhere to the best practice procurement principles of Openness, Transparency, Fairness and Equity. This contract has been set up as a Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) under the Light Touch Regime. To be included on the FPS, Applicants will have to satisfy the Authority that they meet the stipulated selection criteria; this will be assessed through the evaluation of the answers given in response to the exclusion questions and the general qualitative selection questions. Provisions are to be Ofsted Registered (or equivalent outside England) and Ofsted rated "Requires Improvement" or above or compliant with the relevant equivalent requirements

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004847-2023 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 17 Feb 2023 |
| Submission deadline | 4 Nov 2022 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 17 Feb 2023 |
| Contract period | 1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2028 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | £436,443,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Active |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Additional buyers | PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL; SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL; TORBAY COUNCIL |
| Locality | EXETER |
| Post town | Exeter |
| Postcode | EX2 4QD |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK6 North Somerset, Somerset and Dorset |
| ITL 3 | TLK62 Somerset |
| Local authority | Somerset |
| Electoral ward | Bishop's Hull & Taunton West |
| Westminster constituency | Taunton and Wellington |
| Delivery location | TLK23 Somerset CC, TLK4 Devon |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 14 |
| Supplier names | ACORN EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES; ASPRIS CHILDREN'S SERVICES; BIRCHWOOD INDEPENDENCE; CAMBIAN CHILDCARE; CENTRAL & SOUTHERN HOMES; CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HOMES; FIVE RIVERS CHILD CARE; HEADWAY ADOLESCENT RESOURCES; IDEM LIVING; KEYS PCE; MUTUAL CARE; NEXT STEP INDEPENDENCE; PHOENIX CHILDCARE; PHOENIX LEARNING AND CARE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

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

## Release History

- 17 Feb 2023 at 09:52 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004847-2023
- 5 Oct 2022 at 13:10 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027976-2022
- 5 Oct 2022 at 12:42 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027974-2022

## Notice URLs

- http://www.devon.gov.uk
- http://www.somerset.gov.uk/
- http://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk
- http://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/
- http://www.torbay.gov.uk/
- https://new.plymouth.gov.uk/
- https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/

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