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Provision of Commercial Removals and Associated Services

Description: Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) acting as lead on behalf of Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMMH), is running a collaborative procurement exercise for the provision of commercial removals and associated services. Both organisations shall be collectively known as the "Authority" for the purposes of all documents associated with this opportunity. The Authority is seeking to contract with a Service Provider that will manage the Services to the highest levels of satisfaction, professional standards and cost effectiveness. The Service Provider will be expected to deliver improvements to service delivery and value for money over the life of the contract. This is a collaborative procurement involving two organisations coming together to achieve better outcomes, with the primary purposes of procuring collaboratively to include (read more...)

Summary: Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is leading a collaborative procurement with Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust for commercial removals and associated relocation and storage services. A single service provider will manage moves for clinical and non-clinical wards and departments in live environments, including hospitals, health centres, clinics, community hubs and general office buildings. The requirement covers removal and relocation activity across Kent, Medway, East Sussex, and some areas of Inner and Outer London. The service is intended to provide professionally managed, cost-effective moves, improve service delivery and value for money, and support good practice, risk management, sustainability and social responsibility across both NHS organisations. This is a services contract, including relocation and storage and warehousing work.

MBC ITT - General & Principal Bridge Inspections

Description: Maidstone Borough Council owns several pedestrian and vehicular bridges that require regular inspection based on the guidance in CS 450 for the inspection of Highway structures (previously BD63/17) which recommends that a General Inspection is carried out every two years and a Principal Inspection is carried out every six years. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Bridge-inspection-services./S27XH9M7DP To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/S27XH9M7DP

Summary: Maidstone Borough Council is seeking bridge inspection services for several pedestrian and vehicular bridges that it owns. The requirement covers General Inspections and Principal Inspections, carried out in line with CS 450 guidance for the inspection of highway structures, formerly BD63/17. CS 450 recommends General Inspections every two years and Principal Inspections every six years. The work is therefore aimed at assessing the condition and safety of highway structures through recurring inspection activity. It is a public-sector services opportunity for firms specialising in bridge, highway-structure or civil-engineering inspections, with the council’s bridge network forming the operational focus. The procurement is suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises and voluntary, community or social enterprises.

Kent Integrated Family Domestic Abuse Service (KIFDAS)

Description: Procurement of an integrated domestic abuse service, planned across 5 Lots. Covering training, education and awareness (TEA), Safe Accommodation, and Community Support. * Lot 1 - Training, Education and Awareness (TEA) - Kent Wide * Lot 2 - KIFDAS Safe Accommodation for Babies, Children, Young People and Adults and Community Support for Adults - East Kent * Lot 3 - KIFDAS Safe Accommodation for Babies, Children, Young People and Adults and Community Support for Adults- North Kent * Lot 4 - KIFDAS Safe Accommodation for Babies, Children, Young People and Adults and Community Support for Adults- Mid Kent * Lot 5 - KIFDAS Safe Accommodation for Babies, Children, Young People and Adults and Community Support for Adults- West Kent (Note Community Support will only be provided in Maidstone)

Summary: Kent County Council plans to procure an integrated domestic abuse service across Kent. The work is divided into training, education and awareness, safe accommodation, and community support. Training and awareness services will support professionals, voluntary and community organisations and the wider public to recognise domestic abuse, improve early intervention, provide more consistent responses and strengthen multi-agency working. Safe accommodation services will support victim-survivors in refuges and in their own homes where a Sanctuary Scheme has been applied, together with accompanying babies, children and young people. Community support will be for victim-survivors aged 16 and over. The service will cover East Kent, North Kent, Mid Kent and West Kent; community support in West Kent will be provided only in Maidstone. The training and awareness lot is Kent-wide.

MBC - Provision of Flooding Avoidance - supplier engagement

Description: Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) is seeking to deliver a Flood Protection Scheme to the Fairmeadow Underpass, along the River Medway, in Maidstone, to provide avoidance of future flooding to this area and adjacent area along the A229. This scheme has been designed to manage future flood risk and to protect local residential and commercial buildings in the area. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Flood-prevention-works./4NSU4S99WY To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/4NSU4S99WY

Summary: Maidstone Borough Council intends to develop a flood protection scheme at the Fairmeadow Underpass on the River Medway in Maidstone. The works are intended to avoid future flooding in the underpass and the adjacent area along the A229, protecting nearby residential and commercial buildings. The procurement is for flood-prevention works, including flood-defence maintenance works. It is classified as works rather than goods or services. The project is relevant to contractors delivering civil engineering, flood defence, water-management or related infrastructure works, particularly those able to work on flood-risk assets in an urban setting and around transport infrastructure. The named delivery area is Maidstone, along the River Medway and the A229 corridor.

WORKS TO EXISTING MEDICAL RECORDS- CONVERSION TO TRAINING ROOM

Description: To create a flexible open plan space with power and data to the perimeter which can be changed between a full-size training/board room to hot desking.

Summary: 2Gether Support Solutions Limited is seeking building and refurbishment services to convert existing medical records space at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, into a flexible open-plan training room. The completed space is intended to support different uses, changing between a full-size training or board room and hot-desking space. Works include providing power and data around the perimeter so the layout can be adapted. The procurement is categorised as works and covers refurbishment and building construction. The delivery location is Kent, at William Harvey Hospital, Kennington Road, Ashford. The opportunity is suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly contractors able to undertake internal commercial or healthcare-related refurbishment and associated electrical and data infrastructure works.

SESLIP DPS

Description: Kent County Council (KCC), on behalf of South East Sector Led Improvement Partnership (SESLIP), is looking to refresh the list of suitably qualified freelance consultants, who are available on an ad hoc basis to support and provide the below service. We are looking to produce a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for this and are open to applications to join from suppliers that are interested. SESLIP encourages and supports the political and professional leadership and management of local authority Children's Services, to demonstrate, develop and share good practice. Our programmes support the development of Children's Services as learning organisations, focusing on: * Identifying key strands of enquiry * Analysing and comparing operational data about the services * using evidence to inform decisions, including evidence available from outside the region, (read more...)

Summary: Kent County Council, on behalf of the South East Sector Led Improvement Partnership (SESLIP), is procuring education and training services from suitably qualified freelance consultants. The requirement is an ad hoc consultancy service supporting political and professional leadership and management in local authority Children’s Services. Work will help councils identify areas for enquiry, analyse and compare operational service data, use internal and external evidence, undertake peer challenge and peer review, build leadership capacity, and develop standards of practice. It supports the Regional Improvement Plan and collective action to address systemic issues across the South East of England. The procurement is arranged as a dynamic purchasing system for consultant services.

MBC Archbishops Palace Works

Description: Maidstone Borough Council is looking to undertake a refurbishment project of the Grade 1 listed Archbishops Palace, surrounding grounds, and dungeon building. The site is to be used as a high-quality wedding venue, and will be let to an experienced wedding operator. This tender includes two tranches of work to bid for, including: Tranche 1 - Refurbishment of Archbishops Palace main building and surrounding grounds. Tranche 2 - Refurbishment of the dungeon building within the grounds. The council intends to award both of these tranches of work to a single contractor. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Refurbishment-of-run-down-buildings./5HU75B78GB To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/5HU75B78GB

Summary: Maidstone Borough Council is procuring refurbishment works for the Grade 1 listed Archbishop’s Palace, its surrounding grounds and the dungeon building in Maidstone. The completed site is intended to operate as a high-quality wedding venue, to be let to an experienced wedding operator. The requirement covers two tranches: refurbishment of the Palace’s main building and grounds, and refurbishment of the dungeon building within the grounds. Both tranches are intended to be awarded to a single contractor. This is a building refurbishment and conservation opportunity, including overhaul and refurbishment works (CPV 45262690). Suppliers should be able to deliver coordinated works across a listed historic building, external grounds and an associated dungeon structure.

Roof Improvement Works at Parkwood Industrial Estate - Wren and Phoenix

Description: Maidstone Borough Council is looking to procure a Main Contractor to carry out the over cladding to the existing roofs at Units 1-11 at Phoenix Park Industrial Estate and 1-16 at Wren Industrial Estate. The scope also includes the redecoration of the existing cladding panels as described in drawings. There are several single glazed windows to be upgraded to double glazing and several roller shutter doors to be replaced as specified in the drawings. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Roof-covering-work./SJH628R7N9 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/SJH628R7N9

Summary: Maidstone Borough Council is procuring works to improve roofs and building fabric at Phoenix Park Industrial Estate and Wren Industrial Estate in Maidstone. A main contractor is required to overclad the existing roofs at Units 1–11 at Phoenix Industrial Estate and Units 1–16 at Wren Industrial Estate. The works also include redecorating existing cladding panels in accordance with the drawings, upgrading several single-glazed windows to double glazing, and replacing several roller shutter doors. This is a construction opportunity covering roof-covering, roof repair and maintenance work, with the improvements intended for industrial estate buildings. The requirement is classified as works and is suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Specialist Support Service For People Bereaved By Suicide

Description: Kent County Council, on behalf of the Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Programme and in partnership with the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, is seeking market engagement to inform the future procurement of a Specialist Bereavement Support Service for people affected by suicide across Kent and Medway. The service will provide timely, accessible and trauma-informed emotional and practical support to individuals impacted by suicide, including family members, friends, colleagues, witnesses and professionals. The future provider will be expected to deliver a flexible countywide service through a combination of face-to-face, telephone and virtual support, working closely with health, community and voluntary sector partners. The contract is anticipated to commence on 1 April 2027 for an initial period of three years, with the option to extend for up to (read more...)

Summary: Kent County Council, on behalf of the Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Programme and in partnership with the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, is procuring a specialist bereavement support service for people affected by suicide across Kent and Medway. The service will provide timely, accessible and trauma-informed emotional and practical support to family members, friends, colleagues, witnesses and professionals. Delivery is expected across the South East, covering Kent and Medway, through a flexible countywide model combining face-to-face, telephone and virtual support. The provider will work closely with health, community and voluntary sector partners. This is a community health service, classified under CPV 85323000, and is suitable for organisations delivering specialist emotional and practical support after suicide bereavement.

Specialist Support Service For People Bereaved By Suicide

Description: Kent County Council, on behalf of the Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Programme and in partnership with the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, is seeking market engagement to inform the future procurement of a Specialist Bereavement Support Service for people affected by suicide across Kent and Medway. The service will provide timely, accessible and trauma-informed emotional and practical support to individuals impacted by suicide, including family members, friends, colleagues, witnesses and professionals. The future provider will be expected to deliver a flexible countywide service through a combination of face-to-face, telephone and virtual support, working closely with health, community and voluntary sector partners. The contract is anticipated to commence on 1 April 2027 for an initial period of three years, with the option to extend for up to (read more...)

Summary: Kent County Council, on behalf of the Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Programme and in partnership with the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, procured a specialist bereavement support service for people affected by suicide across Kent and Medway. The service is intended for family members, friends, colleagues, witnesses and professionals. It provides timely, accessible, trauma-informed emotional and practical support through face-to-face, telephone and virtual channels. The provider works with health, community and voluntary-sector partners to deliver a flexible service across the county. This is a community health and wider health service requirement. The named buying organisation is Kent County Council, with the programme and Integrated Care Board involved in shaping and delivering the service.