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title: "Early Years Integration Pathfinder - Evaluation"
ocid: "ocds-kuma6s-120763"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NEATH PORT TALBOT COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL"
published: "2022-12-07"
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# Early Years Integration Pathfinder - Evaluation

Buyer: NEATH PORT TALBOT COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-kuma6s-120763

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## Summary

The Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council has awarded a contract for the "Early Years Integration Pathfinder – Evaluation" project. The council aims to evaluate the impact of improved coordination and integration of services to support children from conception to age 7. This project falls under the service category and involves research consultancy, administrative educational services, evaluation consultancy, and other related services. The contract was signed on 20th July 2022.

This tender provides opportunities for businesses in research consultancy, educational services, and social services sectors. The procurement process is in the award stage, and the deadline for submitting bids was on 1st July 2022. Businesses well-suited to compete are those with expertise in developing evaluation frameworks, assessing project outcomes, and understanding user experiences. The project aims to create a more responsive early years system and engage with diverse populations, including hard-to-reach groups and families in low-income areas.

## Notice

1.1 BackgroundThe Early Years Integration Pathfinder is a Welsh Government pilot programme aiming to 'build on our current early years programmes and create a more joined-up, responsive system that puts the unique needs of each child at its heart.' Prosperity for All - the National Strategy (Welsh Government). The programme looks at the co-ordination of services for children in their early years (from conception to age 7).Neath Port Talbot and Swansea Public Service Boards (PSBs) have agreed to become early years integration pathfinders working across the Swansea Bay Health Board area to take the programme forward.Programme objectives:- Children from all backgrounds have the best start in life- Parents will have access to a joined up and seamless EY service- Fully professionalised EY workforce - who feel part of a single EY system- More confident parents of happy, confident, thriving, resilient children- Reduced educational inequalities , reduction in ACEsThe two PSBs are working in partnership with Swansea Bay Health Board and Public Health Wales to take forward the programme and to pilot new ways of working to improve the early years system.Section 2 - Core Service2.1 Description of Service Being Commissioned (the "Specification")To develop an evaluation framework to evaluate the impact of the improved coordination and integration of services delivered as part of the Early Years Integration pilot models, as outlined in the NPT & Swansea Business Plan (overleaf).To apply the framework to the projects and to report findings to the regional steering group.The evaluation product will inform the future planning and arrangement of service delivery at local and regional level.Public Engagement Element:To ensure that we continue to work with the Future Generations Act at the heart of our guiding principles, and that any future proposals to support transformation are completed in a comprehensive and well planned out way it is essential that we engage with families, and service users who are either using, or have recently used services within Health, Education, Family support, Childcare and Play and this work will form part of the evaluation process.We are keen to ensure that all elements of population are considered, including, but not exclusively:- Hard to reach populations- New parents- Pregnant Mums- All ethnic populations- Families living in low income areas, and areas of high deprivation.Design brief:We wished to engage an organisation to undertake the following work:- Identification and collation of baseline data for each project outlined in the NPT & Swansea Business Plan and subsequent addendum for Early Years Integration Pathfinder funding- Identification of appropriate measures and/or tools to demonstrate project outcomes- Evaluating the benefits of improved co-ordination in providing support for children and families (possibly through control groups in non-pilot areas)- Understanding user experience of each of the projects (families and partner agencies)- Collating lessons learned in order to demonstrate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each projectA clear timeline indicating the anticipated start and end dates of all elements of the project should be provided with the quotation.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Sell2Wales |
| Latest notice | https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=120763 |
| Notice type | S2W Notice - Website Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 7 Dec 2022 |
| Submission deadline | 1 Jul 2022 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 20 Jul 2022 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| 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 | Not specified |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NEATH PORT TALBOT COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL |
| Locality | PORT TALBOT |
| Post town | Swansea |
| Postcode | SA13 1PJ |
| Country | Wales |
| ITL 1 | TLL Wales |
| ITL 2 | TLL4 Mid and South West Wales |
| ITL 3 | TLL44 Neath Port Talbot |
| Local authority | Neath Port Talbot |
| Electoral ward | Briton Ferry West |
| Westminster constituency | Aberafan Maesteg |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | PRD |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 75 - Administration, defence and social security services
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- 80 - Education and training services
- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 73210000 - Research consultancy services
- 75121000 - Administrative educational services
- 79419000 - Evaluation consultancy services
- 80100000 - Primary education services
- 80110000 - Pre-school education services
- 80340000 - Special education services
- 85321000 - Administrative social services

## Release History

- 7 Dec 2022 at 13:26 - Award - S2W Notice - Website Contract Award Notice - https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=120763
- 17 Jun 2022 at 08:52 - Tender - S2W Notice - Website Invitation to Tender Notice - https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=120763

## Notice URLs

- http://www.npt.gov.uk

## Provenance

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