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Essex County Council

CFPH001 Fostering and Adoption Medicals

HealthcareCPV 85000000 85100000 85300000 85320000
Value£521k
Awarded26 Jan 2024
Published9 May 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£521ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Essex County Council ("ECC") currently commission Fostering & Adoption Medical Advisory Services across the 4 ECC quadrants North, West, Mid and South.

This service is required to deliver the statutory functions for the provision of medical advisory reports to Fostering and Adoption Panels as set out in the Adoption Services Regulations 2005, the Fostering Services Regulations 2011 and the National Minimum Standards for both Adoption and Fostering.

Current contracts for the service are due to expire in March 2024.

ECC are looking to procure a 3-year contract for the four ECC quadrants.

The medical advisor should be a paediatrician who is fully registered with the GMC and has an enhanced DBS check.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This service is required to deliver

This service is required to deliver the statutory functions for the provision of medical advisory reports to Fostering and Adoption Panels as set out in the Adoption Services Regulations 2005, the Fostering Services Regulations 2011 and the National Minimum Standards for both Adoption and Fostering.

02

The medical advisor should be a paediatrician

The medical advisor should be a paediatrician who is fully registered with the GMC and has an enhanced DBS check.

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2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

DBS checkPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
The medical advisor should be a paediatrician who is fully registered with the GMC and has an enhanced DBS check.
Enhanced DBS / enhanced disclosurePersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
The medical advisor should be a paediatrician who is fully registered with the GMC and has an enhanced DBS check.

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OCID
43fb81c2-8473-484a-a78d-ff69e9a9cc54
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
ECC001-DN701933-91686310
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