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West Northamptonshire Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Coordination and Delivery Service 2027

Description: West Northamptonshire Council is seeking to appoint a Provider to coordinate and manage the delivery of the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme across West Northamptonshire from 1 March 2027. The successful Provider will act as the strategic coordinator of the programme and will be responsible for the planning, mobilisation, management, quality assurance and performance monitoring of HAF provision. The Provider will recruit, support and manage a network of delivery partners to ensure that sufficient high-quality holiday activities and healthy food provision are available during the Easter, summer and winter school holiday periods.

Summary: West Northamptonshire Council is seeking a provider to coordinate and manage its Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme across West Northamptonshire. The service covers strategic planning, mobilisation, programme management, quality assurance and performance monitoring, as well as recruiting, supporting and managing a network of delivery partners. Those partners will provide holiday activities and healthy food for children during the Easter, summer and winter school holidays. The requirement combines programme coordination with the organisation of community, children’s welfare and education-related provision. Work is delivered across West Northamptonshire. The council is buying a single coordinated service rather than separately specified activities: the appointed provider will oversee a local network responsible for delivering the holiday provision.

Bin Permits

Description: Garden Waste Bin Permit Printing and Delivery West Northamptonshire Council wishes to invite bidders for provision of supply a fully integrated Garden Waste Permit System for the production and management of garden waste permits for the area of West Northamptonshire, to include: * Print permits * Send permits to eligible residents within West Northamptonshire with bins * Send Permits to eligible residents within West Northamptonshire with Sacks * Be able to integrate with Council systems * Supply an online portal to the Council * Provide Training for staff on the portal * Provide updates on level of subscriptions * Dispatch deadlines Please read and follow the information and guidance supplied below and within the Tender documents, this will help with your tender submission. Word count limits apply, any (read more...)

Summary: West Northamptonshire Council is seeking a supplier to provide an integrated garden waste permit service for residents across West Northamptonshire. The work covers printing permits and sending them to eligible residents who use bins or sacks, as well as providing an online portal for council staff to manage the service. The supplier must integrate the system with the Council’s systems, train staff to use the portal, report subscription levels and meet dispatch deadlines. This is a service contract combining print production, distribution and system support. Delivery is to eligible households throughout West Northamptonshire; the Council is the buyer.

Environmental Services for Daventry Town Council

Description: Daventry Town Council is preparing for the procurement of its future Environmental Services arrangements, with the current contract due to expire in May 2028. The Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform its approach to the future procurement and to understand the capability, capacity and interest of potential suppliers. As part of this exercise, the Council is inviting interested suppliers to participate in a market engagement questionnaire. The scope of services is expected to include, but may not be limited to: * LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE to Council maintained open spaces, highway verges, residential areas and other sites to include: 247 acres of grass cutting, hedge and shrub maintenance, planting, floral displays, weed control, hard-surface maintenance, seasonal operations; * TREES / ARBORICULTURE - Routine tree inspections undertaken by an (read more...)

Summary: Daventry Town Council is preparing a future environmental services procurement covering council-maintained sites in Daventry. The expected work combines grounds and landscape maintenance, including grass cutting across 247 acres, hedges, planting, floral displays and weed control; tree inspections and works; maintenance of ponds, streams, ditches and sustainable drainage systems; and cemetery grounds and burial operations. It also covers cleansing open spaces and specified town-centre areas, including litter and fly-tip removal, public toilet cleaning and opening, litter and dog-waste bins, support for Daventry markets, and inspection and minor maintenance of play equipment. The supplier or suppliers will also be responsible for disposing of waste generated by the services. The Council is considering whether to procure this as one contract, separate packages or individual lots.

Provision of CPU Refrigeration Upgrade

Description: Replacement of existing refrigeration units to kitchen area of Hospital.

Summary: Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is procuring works to replace the existing refrigeration units serving the hospital kitchen. This is a refrigeration installation and upgrade project, intended to renew the kitchen’s current cooling equipment. The work is for the Trust in Northampton. The procurement is a single package rather than a division into separately described lots, so suppliers should be prepared to deliver the refrigeration replacement as one project. The stated scope is focused on replacing existing units; no broader kitchen refurbishment or other equipment supply is described. This opportunity is most relevant to contractors specialising in commercial or institutional refrigeration installation and replacement, particularly those able to work in a hospital kitchen environment.

The Integrated Community Equipment Loan Service

Description: This Invitation to Tender ("ITT") contains instructions and key information about the procurement process. This ITT constitutes the conditions of the procurement process and by participating, Potential Suppliers agree to these conditions. West Northamptonshire Council ("Authority") and North Northamptonshire Council ("Authority") wishes to invite tenders for the supply of goods in respect of this requirement. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 Section 9 Light Touch Contracts. This procurement is being conducted through the Open procedure to identify the Potential Supplier(s) for the Authority's requirement. The ICELS supports people to remain independent within their own homes, reduces health inequalities, promotes recovery, rehabilitation, and enables people to live more safely. The ICELS will provide timely access to equipment that supports prevention, hospital avoidance, hospital (read more...)

Summary: West Northamptonshire Council and North Northamptonshire Council are procuring an integrated community equipment loan service. The provider will supply equipment to help people remain safe and independent at home and support prevention, hospital discharge, intermediate care, rehabilitation, reablement, palliative and end-of-life care, continuing healthcare and ongoing community support. Privately purchased equipment must also be available to people who fund their own care, with the provider liaising with them on assessment, supply, installation and aftercare. The provider will work with commissioners to develop and maintain a self-assessment model, including an accessible online tool to help people and carers assess needs and find suitable equipment. West Northamptonshire Council is the lead authority. Delivery is across the West and North Northamptonshire council areas.

EM Lawshare Framework Agreement for Legal Services

Description: West Northamptonshire Council (the Authority) is acting as lead authority and running this procurement on behalf of the EM Lawshare (EMLS). This procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 and is being conducted through the Competitive Flexible procedure to identify the Potential Suppliers for the requirement. This is a Light Touch procurement. EMLS is a consortium of public bodies (the Consortium) that have been procuring legal services frameworks over the last 20 years. This procurement is for a new framework agreement to replace an existing one that is expiring on 31 March 2026. Contracting authorities will be required to be members of the Consortium in order to use the new framework agreement. There are just over 240 contracting authorities signed up as members to (read more...)

Summary: West Northamptonshire Council is procuring a legal services framework on behalf of EM Lawshare, a consortium of public bodies. The framework is intended to provide member organisations with legal advice and services across ten areas of work, covering the major categories of local authority legal work except childcare. The detailed service scope is set out in the specification. It is a single, unlottted requirement: appointed firms must be able to respond across all ten areas. Consortium members include local authorities and parish councils, as well as public bodies such as NHS organisations, universities, police and fire services, and other public-sector organisations. The framework can be used by contracting authorities in England and Wales that join the consortium. Services will be delivered to members across England and Wales.

Asbestos Surveys

Description: Northamptonshire Partnership Homes (NPH) is seeking to appoint two suitably qualified and experienced contractors to deliver asbestos surveying services across its housing stock and operational properties. The contract will include the provision of management surveys, refurbishment and demolition surveys, re-inspection surveys, sampling of suspected asbestos-containing materials (ACMs), bulk sample analysis, emergency asbestos surveys, and associated technical consultancy support. Services will be required across a range of property types, including occupied and void residential properties, communal areas, garages, plant rooms, and operational buildings. Contractors will be expected to manage access arrangements, liaise professionally with residents and NPH representatives, and minimise disruption whilst undertaking surveys. The successful contractors must be capable of providing a responsive service, including urgent attendance where asbestos is suspected to have been disturbed or damaged. All (read more...)

Summary: Northamptonshire Partnership Homes is seeking contractors to carry out asbestos surveying and related technical consultancy across its housing stock and operational properties in Northamptonshire. The work covers management surveys, refurbishment and demolition surveys, re-inspections, sampling and bulk sample analysis, as well as emergency surveys when asbestos may have been disturbed or damaged. Properties include occupied and empty homes, communal areas, garages, plant rooms and operational buildings. Contractors must arrange access, liaise with residents and NPH representatives, and keep disruption to a minimum. They must provide electronic survey data and reports with clear recommendations to support asbestos-risk management and maintenance of NPH’s asbestos register. This is a building surveying and asbestos risk consultancy service, not a contract solely for asbestos removal.

Northamptonshire Children's Trust Pre-Market Engagement Event for the Reopening of the Independent Fostering Arrangements and Children's Homes DPS

Description: Northamptonshire Children's Trust (hereafter referred to as the "Children's Trust") is re-opening the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Independent Fostering Arrangements and Children's Homes. Northamptonshire Children's Trust (NCT) would like to invite Residential Children's Home Providers and Independent Fostering Agencies who are not currently part of the framework to attend the forthcoming Pre-Market Engagement Event. As part of the preparations to re-open the Children's Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), we are keen to engage with providers, share our future plans, and gain valuable insight from the market. Event Details: Date: Friday 23 October Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm Venue: Microsoft Teams The session will include: - An overview of the DPS re-opening process. - Future commissioning intentions. - Opportunities for providers to ask questions and provide feedback. - Information (read more...)

Summary: Northamptonshire Children's Trust plans to reopen its Dynamic Purchasing System for placements with independent fostering agencies and children's homes. The services are intended to provide children in care with safe, suitable homes and support tailored to their needs, wellbeing and development into adulthood. Fostering placements cover standard, enhanced, complex-needs and emergency care, transitions from children's homes to family care, and parent-and-child placements. Children's home placements cover standard, specialist, complex-needs and emergency provision. Delivery is in Northamptonshire, including Northampton and surrounding areas. The Trust is holding a pre-market engagement event to explain its plans and hear from providers; it is aimed at residential children's home providers and independent fostering agencies not already on the system.

Stop Smoking Medication Framework

Description: West Northamptonshire Council intends to establish a new framework for the provision of Varenicline or Cytisine, under a Patient Group Directions (PGD) and referrals made through the West Northamptonshire Stop Smoking Service.

Summary: West Northamptonshire Council is seeking a provider for a stop-smoking medication service covering Varenicline and Cytisine. The work includes consultations, patient assessment and supplying prescribed medication under Patient Group Directions, with referrals coming through the West Northamptonshire Stop Smoking Service. The service is intended to make suitable smoking-cessation treatment easier to access and support high-quality local stop-smoking provision. Delivery is across West Northamptonshire. This is pharmacy and healthcare service work, rather than a purchase of medication alone: suppliers would need to provide the clinical consultation and assessment as well as arrange the supply of the prescribed treatments.

WNC Children & Young People Health and Wellbeing Survey

Description: WNC is seeking an experienced provider to support the design, mobilisation, delivery, analysis and reporting of three periodic Children and Young People's Health and Wellbeing Survey waves. The provider will be expected to manage the survey on a day-to-day basis and work closely with Council commissioners, Public Health colleagues, Business Intelligence colleagues, schools and other relevant system partners to meet our need for timely and actionable insight. The proposed arrangement is for three survey waves in alternate years over a five-year period, provisionally in 2027, 2029 and 2031. The proposed maximum value is PS75,000 excluding VAT across the full arrangement.

Summary: West Northamptonshire Council is seeking a provider to design, mobilise, deliver, analyse and report on three Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey waves. The provider will manage the surveys day to day and work with Council commissioners, Public Health and Business Intelligence colleagues, schools and other relevant partners to produce timely, actionable insight. The waves are planned for Northamptonshire, with delivery addresses also spanning the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, the East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, the South East and South West. This is a research and survey services requirement (CPV 73000000), rather than a purchase of physical goods or construction work.