2122-0032-C Youth Services at Lift and Rose Bowl sites

Concepts

• direct access social prescribing service
• health and social work
• emotional wellbeing service
• local youth service providers
• new young islington youth offer
• strong youth work leadership function
• 2122-0032-c youth services
• youth services
• inclusive youth work delivery
• rose bowl sites

Location

Description

Islington Council invites tender from suppliers for Youth Services at Lift and Rose Bowl sites, Summerversity and the Emotional Wellbeing Service. A Direct Access Social Prescribing Service is also required with funding secured for the first 12 months and the expectation to extend a further six (6) x 12 months, subject to funding availability. Current status / Background Over the last 18 months, the Council has been engaging with children and young people, the community and local youth service providers to design a new Young Islington youth offer which will: • Identify, target and reach more vulnerable young people. • Reach into different communities to challenge, reduce and eliminate persistent inequality. • Be more flexible and responsive to need - mobilising resources around key 'hotspot' areas as necessary. • Harness the collective resources of services and communities across Islington. The new model is based on a strong youth work leadership function, providing support and stimulus for high quality, inclusive youth work delivery across the borough of Islington. The council is looking for suitable organisations to manage the operation of the youth offer, summer programme and emotional wellbeing services, alongside a separately funded Direct Access Social Prescribing Service. Delivery will be centred on the Lift and Rose Bowl youth spaces. This is a replacement procurement exercise for the contract previously advertised as 2122-0032 Young Islington - universal youth work offer, Lot 2: Young Islington: Lift and Rose Bowl, Summerversity and the Emotional Wellbeing Service, and Lot 4: Youth Islington: Direct Access Prescribing Service. For full details, please see the London Tenders Portal, contract reference 2122-0032-C Youth Services at Lift and Rose Bowl sites.

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.
• Contract is suitable for VCOs.

Other Information

This contract is being procured under the Light Touch regime under Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services of Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Under Regulation 76 the Council is free to establish a procedure, provided that procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service providers) and is initiated by a contract notice. However what the Council has designed is essentially the Open Procedure but with the potential for negotiation at the end, similar to the Competitive procedure with negotiation. The Open Procedure means that all bidders who successfully express an interest will automatically be invited to tender and have access to the tender documents. Those who submit a tender and meet the minimum requirements (by answering Selection questions) will have their full tender, method statements and pricing evaluated. The council reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of initial tenders without negotiation, and also not to make an award of contract at all.