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title: "con_23980 - Delivery Partner Support Contract (Early Years and Wraparound Childcare)"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-040b8b"
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# con_23980 - Delivery Partner Support Contract (Early Years and Wraparound Childcare)

Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-040b8b

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## Summary

The Department for Education has recently awarded the "Delivery Partner Support Contract (Early Years and Wraparound Childcare)" to Mott MacDonald Limited. This contract, valued at £6,814,923, involves providing specialist support to local authorities in the UK to enhance early years and wraparound childcare sufficiency. The aim is to assist authorities in meeting their expanded entitlements, with a focus on delivering high-quality childcare support. The procurement method used was an open procedure, and the contract was signed on 23rd January 2024.

This opportunity seeks bids from businesses specialising in research and development services along with consultancy services. Companies capable of providing expert guidance and innovative solutions to support local authorities in delivering childcare services are well-suited to compete. The contract period runs until March 2026, with an optional extension period available. Interested businesses should consider leveraging their technical expertise and quality solutions to meet the tender's evaluation criteria centred on technical and commercial evaluations.

## Notice

The purpose of this procurement is to provide the requirements for a contract to provide specialist support for local authorities (LAs) to enable them to deliver: a) their Early Years (EY) and wraparound childcare sufficiency duties; b) the expansion to the EY entitlements announced at the 2023 Spring Budget; and c) the wraparound childcare programme announced at the 2023 Spring Budget.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

LAs are integral to the delivery of these programmes but require additional support to ensure they are in the best possible position to provide flexible and appropriate childcare in their areas. This tender seeks innovative bids from Potential Suppliers able to provide LAs with the advice, guidance and support they need to implement the reforms in their areas and overcome any challenges that could hinder implementation. The successful Supplier will support 153 LAs (Unitary, Metropolitan Boroughs, London Boroughs, and County Councils). The contract covers England only. The Supplier will provide expert support for LAs to support them to increase their capacity and expertise to deliver, supporting LAs to meet delivery milestones. This support will sit alongside support and guidance provided by DfE, to ensure LAs are able to meet their sufficiency duties for the expanded EY entitlements and deliver the wraparound childcare programme. All support provided through this contract should enable LAs to sustain activity beyond the life of this contract (i.e., beyond March 2026). This support contract sits across both EY and the wraparound programme to ensure LAs receive joined-up support across both areas where required, to better enable authorities and DfE to realise synergies across the programmes, and to mitigate potential workload impacts for LAs. Where possible, and where this will support LAs most effectively, the requirements outlined in this section should be delivered jointly between both programmes. While most requirements across the two programmes are broadly aligned, they differ with regard to the national monitoring of delivery. The wraparound programme requires a national delivery monitoring function involving the regular collection of LAs' delivery plans. This is because wraparound is a novel programme requiring potentially new activity for LAs, and regular delivery plan submissions are a condition of their grant funding. However, the related EY requirement differs because DfE already collects significant amounts of data about EY delivery and will therefore monitor national readiness and sufficiency in-house, with support and input from the Supplier. We welcome innovative bids that go beyond the requirements outlined in this specification where that can more effectively support LAs and have developed our scoring criteria with this in mind.

Options: Optional extension period of up to 12 months.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003551-2024 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 Feb 2024 |
| Submission deadline | 13 Nov 2023 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 23 Jan 2024 |
| Contract period | 8 Jan 2024 - 31 Mar 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £6,850,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £6,814,923 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1P 3BT |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MOTT MACDONALD |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 75 - Administration, defence and social security services

### Codes

- 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 75100000 - Administration services

## Release History

- 2 Feb 2024 at 14:07 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003551-2024
- 12 Oct 2023 at 16:33 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030170-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education

## Provenance

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