NEPO605 - Children's Advocacy, independent people for Children and Adult Complaints and Secure Reviews (C-012113) - Opening One

Concepts

• health and social work
• durham
• darlington
• sunderland
• middlesbrough
• redcar
• hartlepool
• gateshead
• morpeth
• newcastle upon tyne

Location

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE

Description

Newcastle City Council (''the Lead Authority'') acting as the lead authority on behalf of the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO) and its Member Authorities, has awarded a Flexible Procurement Agreement (Contract) for: Lot 1 - Children's Advocacy, Lot 2 - NOT USED Lot 3 - Investigating Officers (Children and Adult Stage Two Complaints) Lot 4 - Independent Persons (Children and Adult Stage Two Complaints) Lot 5 - Independent Chairs for Stage Three Statutory Children's Social Care Complaints Lot 6 - Independent Panellists for Stage Three Statutory Children's Social Care Complaints Lot 7 - Independent Persons for Secure Accommodation Reviews This Notice is for Opening One of this Flexible Procurement Agreement (Contract) and the Council is inviting tenders for Lots 3 - 7 only. The North East regional governance arrangements have determined that this is a non-mandatory collaborative exercise, and as a result, Local Authorities can 'opt-in' to the six different elements of the solution, with some Local Authorities choosing to continue to purchase some of these services through other local arrangements. The Participating Local Authorities 'opting in' to the initial phase of this solution will be: 1. Darlington - all elements 2. Durham - all elements except Children's Advocacy 3. Gateshead - all elements 4. Hartlepool - all elements 5. Middlesbrough - all elements 6. Newcastle (Lead Authority) - all elements 7. North Tyneside - all elements 8. Northumberland - all elements except Children's Advocacy 9. Redcar & Cleveland - all elements 10. South Tyneside - all elements 11. Stockton - all elements, and 12. Sunderland - all elements Local Authorities who have 'opted out' for any Lot at this initial period of the solution may 'opt-in' to use the solution during its term. The agreement will be available for use by all NEPO Members. A list of member organisations is available in the About section of the NEPO website at: www.nepo.org. This agreement will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members. Current Associate Members are listed in the Associate Member section of the NEPO website at: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/list. NEPO intends to make the resulting agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the UK (as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015) including but not limited to Government Departments and their Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, Central Government, NHS Bodies, Local Authorities, Emergency Services, Coastguard Emergency Services, Educational Establishments, Registered Social Landlords and Registered Charities who have a need to purchase the above services.

Lot Division

Renewal Options

2 x 12-month options to extend 2 x 12-month options to extend

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Bids should cover one or more lots.
• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• This is a recurring contract.
• Options are available.
• Renewals are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

A complete list of permissible users is shown on the NEPO website below: https://www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissible-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance. Further information can be found at: www.nepo.org