CP2216-22 Peninsula Residential Children's Homes Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)

A Prior Information Notice
by DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
5 year
Value
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Sector
HEALTH
Published
05 Oct 2022
Delivery
01 Feb 2023 to 31 Jan 2028
Deadline
04 Nov 2022 12:00

Concepts

Location

Somerset:

Geochart for 4 buyers and 0 suppliers

4 buyers

Description

The aim of this service is to increase sufficiency of high quality placements to enable children and young people to remain as close to their home community as possible. This is based on the principle of accessing the right placement at the right time. Placements offer an asset-based model of service, where the child or young person is supported to achieve positive outcomes, with a focus on supporting placement stability and Permanence. The Flexible Purchasing System aims to achieve improved value for money for placing authorities through greater transparency of pricing and competition through call-off. The proposal is for this to be a continually open purchasing system, the aim to speed up the process for new homes to become available for placements by the authorities.

Lot Division

1 Standard Residential Placements (Individual and Block Placements)

These will enable children to live in residential homes, where they will receive high quality care in a safe and enriching environment, supporting a broad range of needs, including emotional and behavioural issues, sexualised behaviours, and physical disabilities. Understanding of the difficulties children may have experienced and how this may present, will require a therapeutic parenting approach. Services will be needed for a variety of reasons and durations
2 Innovation and Partnership Working (Optional Lot)

This Lot is intended to allow commissioners to design, and with the Suppliers, deliver bespoke services designed to meet complex needs that are not easily met through standard residential care. One way could be through a competitive conversation (detailed within Schedule 3B of the FPS Agreement) to enable specialist support to be put in place in response to a child or young person’s individual needs, with additional elements reflected within the individual placement agreement (IPA). This type of approach will also create scope for targeted, developmental work with our Suppliers to develop a multi-disciplinary model of residential assessment provision for children and young people in crisis, which will focus on meeting the needs of children who experience high placement instability.

CPV Codes

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services
  • 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Tender Launch Event: The Peninsula Authorities will be hosting a virtual -tender launch event meeting via Teams for Residential Children’s Homes. This is purely in relation to the tendering documentation and the procurement process. If you would like to attend, please email procurementpeople-mailbox@devon.gov.uk to register your interest in this meeting and a link will be sent to you. This email address should only be used for interest in this event. Date: Friday, 7th October 2022 from 10am – 12pm Providers will be given the opportunity for Questions and Answers at the event in relation to the tendering process. Any questions in relation to the specification, providers will be directed to the portal to submit the question this way where the commissioning authorities will respond. Submitting your Tender Application Workshops: As we appreciate that the submission process will be different to previous tender processes so we will be holding a couple of separate events for Providers in order to support with the application process. These workshops aim to provide practical support and guidance through the steps of completing and submitting your response through the online system. The date will be: Friday 14th October 2022, 11 – 12pm Please email procurementpeople-mailbox@devon.gov.uk to book a place

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