Additional supported accommodation for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People

• Duration: 2 month

The Council is seeking to establish a framework of suitable providers who are able to provide additional supported accommodation for UASC against two lots. The UASC service will offer safe accommodation and support to those requiring a planned transition into supported accommodation and to those requiring emergency accommodation further details of the services that will be purchased under the Framework by the Council are as set out in the service specification; An open multi-provider framework agreement will be put in place which means that during the framework Term the Council may re-open the Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People’s Supported Accommodation Service tender exercise to run further competitive processes to allow new providers to be appointed to the framework. Bidders may tender for one or more of the following lots: Lot 1: Core and Cluster - Single Provider Award Lot 2: Emergency supported accommodation provision - Multi-Provider Award The framework agreement will be established with an initial duration of 5 years, with option to extend for a further three of up to two-year extensions to a maximum of 11 years with a proposed contract start date of the 1st of April 2023. This is a new competitive procurement process using an open procedure conducted in accordance with the light touch regime of the Public Procurement 2015 Regulations and advertised in the Find a Tender Service Find high value contracts in the public sector - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) This opportunity can be accessed via the East Midlands Tenders portal https://www.eastmidstenders.org/ Reference DN643351 Please read all the tender documents. If you have any questions, please submit them through the procurement portal using the messaging facility. The deadline for questions prior to tender submission is the 26th of January 2023, this is to allow time for questions to be answered before the deadline. The closing date for all tenders is at 15:30 hours on the 2nd of February 2023

• Duration: 5 year

The Council is seeking to establish a framework of suitable providers who are able to provide additional supported accommodation for UASC against two lots. The UASC service will offer safe accommodation and support to those requiring a planned transition into supported accommodation and to those requiring emergency accommodation further details of the services that will be purchased under the Framework by the Council are as set out in the service specification; An open multi-provider framework agreement will be put in place which means that during the framework Term the Council may re-open the Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People’s Supported Accommodation Service tender exercise to run further competitive processes to allow new providers to be appointed to the framework. Bidders may tender for one or more of the following lots: Lot 1: Core and Cluster - Single Provider Award Lot 2: Emergency supported accommodation provision - Multi-Provider Award Lot 2 Award Criteria: Please refer to the tender document Process Overview for the award criteria for lot 2. The framework agreement will be established with an initial duration of 5 years, with option to extend for a further three of up to two-year extensions to a maximum of 11 years with a proposed contract start date of the 1st of April 2023. This is a new competitive procurement process using an open procedure conducted in accordance with the light touch regime of the Public Procurement 2015 Regulations and advertised in the Find a Tender Service Find high value contracts in the public sector - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) This opportunity can be accessed via the East Midlands Tenders portal https://www.eastmidstenders.org/ Reference DN643351 Please read all the tender documents. If you have any questions, please submit them through the procurement portal using the messaging facility. The deadline for questions prior to tender submission is the 26th of January 2023, this is to allow time for questions to be answered before the deadline. The closing date for all tenders is at 15:30 hours on the 2nd of February 2023