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Essex County Council has contracted a supplier to provide a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) digital solution to upgrade its current TravelEssex app (CO0391 Modernising Passenger Transport), which is due to go live Spring 2026. To integrate with this, the Council is seeking a software solution to further support its ambitions to make travel as inclusive and easy as possible around Greater Essex. This is a preliminary market engagement exercise to help ECC understand the market capability and capacity, to identify potential software solutions that enables all users to access travel more inclusively and easily. ECC's high-level requirements for the software solution must include the ability to: • Deeply integrate with our TravelEssex digital platform, via an existing public API (Application Programming Interface), solution provided by the supplier offering live arrivals, disruptions, amenity status (e.g. lifts, escalators etc) across multiple modes of travel • Provide visual and audible wayfinding and real-time information to users, via their smartphone, initiated by scanning a high-density code that is applied to infrastructure (e.g. bus shelters, bus stop, train stations and similar). The real-time feed would be provided by ECC for the supplier to ingest, in Siri SM/VM/SX formats. • Feature parity is required between the standard and audio formats. Continuity between codes on a route must be seamless to the user and include options such as step-free access. • Guidance to users must be in precise distances (feet/inches, metres/centimetres) • The code must be capable of being read via a smartphone's in-built camera and optimised for instantaneous, long-distance scanning. • The code must [...]

Essex County Council is seeking to procure Estate Management Services including but not limited to the following: Core services: Estate Management (landlord & tenant matters; leases, rent reviews); Asset Valuations (for accounting); rent and rates management (handling payments and income); Data recording and management; Vacant building management Call-off services Acquisitions and disposals; taking of new interests; valuations; Dilapidation assessments; CPO and compensation assessments; Planning and development advice; Planning applications and; Business rates appeals [...]

Following the Essex Children's Homes collaboration events in May and July 2025 Essex County Council would like to invite you to a further event on the 25th September 2025, from 09:00-12:00 at The County Hotel, 29 Rainsford Rd, Chelmsford CM1 2PZ The agenda will provide space to: • Recap on the thinking so far • Introduce a proposed new commissioning model • Test the model with providers to understand its potential risks and benefits • Test the appetite of providers to sign up to the model • Set out proposed next steps, including anticipated timelines We remain committed to codesigning the approach with providers who are open to: • Providing same day emergency placements in Essex • Providing homes that meet the high and complex levels of need in Essex • Working alongside operations and placement teams in Essex to ensure long term placement planning and stability • Open book accounting principles (by which we mean transparency of cost, price and value) • Providing exclusive occupancy to local homes for Essex children • Exploring how relational contracts could improve sufficiency in Essex The focus of this event is strategic in nature. It is not about individual placements. Therefore, it is appropriate for Directors and Owners to attend. Due to space limitations, we can accommodate two people from each organisation. To reserve space for your organisation, please use the following link to access and fill out our booking form: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=TzK0qFwVFUKg8X7YzJqZLzvw6VkFTuNInAaV1ee3RctUOUZHUFNEN1NYOVJLM1g3S0c2R01UNk5KMi4u&route=shorturl Please be advised that any information regarding the contract value and contract duration within this notice are provided for indicative purposes to fulfil the requirements of the online form. The Council reserves the right to review and amend [...]

Essex County Council ('the Authority') have been pre-allocated £8,382,000 under the Local Electric Vehicle (LEVI) fund, which aims to increase the number of on-street low-powered charge points in residential areas, accelerating the commercialisation of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure across the County. The Authority requires Service Providers for four concession contracts to install, manage, maintain, and replace as required, Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment. We require three different technology types: Street Furniture Charge Points (minimum 1 Socket), Multi-Socket Street Furniture Charge Points (minimum 2 Sockets), and 'Flush to the Floor' Charge Points (minimum 1 Socket). The outcome of these four contracts shall be to establish an integrated EV Charge Point network across Essex, constituted of a cumulative minimum of 5,000 Installed and Operational Sockets available for public use, particularly designed for the needs of Users without access to off-street parking. The Agreement Term for these Contracts will be 15 Year(s), with the option to extend once for a period of 12 Month(s). [...]

Following the Essex Children's Homes collaboration events in May and July 2025 Essex County Council would like to invite you to a further event on the 25th September 2025, from 09:00-12:00 at The County Hotel, 29 Rainsford Rd, Chelmsford CM1 2PZ The agenda will provide space to: • Recap on the thinking so far • Introduce a proposed new commissioning model • Test the model with providers to understand its potential risks and benefits • Test the appetite of providers to sign up to the model • Set out proposed next steps, including anticipated timelines We remain committed to codesigning the approach with providers who are open to: • Providing same day emergency placements in Essex • Providing homes that meet the high and complex levels of need in Essex • Working alongside operations and placement teams in Essex to ensure long term placement planning and stability • Open book accounting principles (by which we mean transparency of cost, price and value) • Providing exclusive occupancy to local homes for Essex children • Exploring how relational contracts could improve sufficiency in Essex The focus of this event is strategic in nature. It is not about individual placements. Therefore, it is appropriate for Directors and Owners to attend. Due to space limitations, we can accommodate two people from each organisation. To reserve space for your organisation, please use the following link to access and fill out our booking form: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=TzK0qFwVFUKg8X7YzJqZLzvw6VkFTuNInAaV1ee3RctUOUZHUFNEN1NYOVJLM1g3S0c2R01UNk5KMi4u&route=shorturl Please be advised that any information regarding the contract value and contract duration within this notice are provided for indicative purposes to fulfil the requirements of the online form. The Council reserves the right to review and amend [...]

Transformation is fundamental and across the Authority change is inevitable, now, and as we move into the future. The Authority sets our clear intention to be a modern digital council, maximising the use of new technologies, delivering innovation and to work more effectively, as well as to maximise our opportunity to add value across the Authority. The Authority understands that our suppliers (particularly on a technology or digital front) are leaders within their specific expertise. To enable the Authority to become a modern digital council, we require strategic relationships with our suppliers to support us with delivering our key principles, helping with challenges and to contribute to managing, shaping and innovating our services The Authority has used outsourced Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for network services for over 20 years, with the current network contract in place since 2012. This Procurement aims to replace the existing network technology while maintaining the same operating model to meet the Authority's evolving needs, which include hybrid working, an evolving real estate and defending against increasing cyber threats. The Authority requires a modern and well managed enterprise network solution that is designed, built, and managed based on effective security principles. The Solution will need to ensure that there is robust protection whilst maintaining a quality service experience to our Users and their various working styles. The wider adoption of hybrid working has seen the traditional perimeter of the network extend outside of our buildings. This change needs to be reflected in the security of the network, thereby [...]

Following the Essex Children's Homes collaboration events in May and July 2025 Essex County Council would like to invite you to a further event on the 23rd September 2025, from 09:00-12:00. The agenda will provide space to: • Recap on the thinking so far • Introduce a proposed new commissioning model • Test the model with providers to understand its potential risks and benefits • Test the appetite of providers to sign up to the model • Set out proposed next steps, including anticipated timelines We remain committed to codesigning the approach with providers who are open to: • Providing same day emergency placements in Essex • Providing homes that meet the high and complex levels of need in Essex • Working alongside operations and placement teams in Essex to ensure long term placement planning and stability • Open book accounting principles (by which we mean transparency of cost, price and value) • Providing exclusive occupancy to local homes for Essex children • Exploring how relational contracts could improve sufficiency in Essex The focus of this event is strategic in nature. It is not about individual placements. Therefore, it is appropriate for Directors and Owners to attend. Due to space limitations, we can accommodate two people from each organisation. To reserve space for your organisation, please use the following link to access and fill out our booking form: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=TzK0qFwVFUKg8X7YzJqZLzvw6VkFTuNInAaV1ee3RctUOUZHUFNEN1NYOVJLM1g3S0c2R01UNk5KMi4u&route=shorturl Please be advised that any information regarding the contract value and contract duration within this notice are provided for indicative purposes to fulfil the requirements of the online form. The Council reserves the right to review and amend this information and will [...]

Essex County Council (ECC) want to secure 33 exclusive Children's Residential Home beds in Essex by 2027 for children and young people in care. ECC also have a long-term ambition to work differently, in collaboration with the sector. We want to work with organisations that share our purpose and values to appropriately meet the needs and deliver good outcomes for Essex young people, in Essex. Explanatory notes: Please be advised that any information regarding the contract value and contract duration within this notice are provided for indicative purposes to fulfil the requirements of the online form. The Council reserves the right to review and amend this information and will publish the actual position within the tender notice. In addition, please note that in relation to the stated position regarding the contracting authority within this notice, the contracting authority is Essex County Council and any Successor Body meaning one or more entities which assumes any of the Council's functions (as applicable) as a result of Local Government Reform (LGR). Such successor body or bodies may be, without limitation, a local authority, a combined authority, a combined county authority, a strategic authority or any other status determined pursuant to the Devolution and LGR Legislation. [...]

In 2019, Essex County Council (ECC) commissioned the Floating Support Service, which provides a broad range of short and medium- term interventions to prevent homelessness and address other housing related needs. Operating a peripatetic model, the service delivers flexible, outreach support across the County; providing targeted, cost-effective interventions to vulnerable adults and their families, who are at imminent risk of losing their accommodation, or whom may be experiencing a period of crisis. The service is aimed at people across a range of housing tenure, including those accommodated in social housing, owner-occupiers, private rented accommodation, as well as providing support to those who are homeless and require support with applying for accommodation. Essex County Council are seeking a floating service that can provide: 1. Targeted floating support to individuals and/or families presenting with complex needs including, but not limited to, threatened homelessness, substance misuse, domestic abuse, offending, mental-ill- health, neuro diversity, physical/sensory impairment, financial hardship/exclusion, care leavers and refugees with access to public funds. Floating Support encompasses a broad range of activity. 2. For the purpose of this specification, Floating Support may include any intervention or assistance that enables individuals who are vulnerable, at risk of homelessness or are experiencing a period of crisis to manage and maintain their homes across all forms of tenure. 3. More generic and early interventions to a wider range of individuals and/or families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with less complex presenting issues, where earlier and less intensive interventions will prevent deterioration 4. The ability to flex [...]

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