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Croydon Council

711/2018 - Advocacy for Looked After Children & Young People & Care Leavers

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£400k
Awarded2 Jul 2018
Published30 Jan 2019
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£400ktotal 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

Croydon Council aims to provide high quality care to Croydon's Looked After Children ("LAC"), Care Leavers and vulnerable children in need of help and protection with the over-riding priority of ensuring that they have a voice, they are enabled to reach their full potential and have their overall needs met effectively.

The provision of the children's advocacy services will ensure that the Council meets its statutory duty and supports the effective delivery of our Improvement Plan.

Croydon Council is seeking to engage a single provider for the provision of Advocacy services across the following three client groups: • Children in need of help and protection • Children Looked After • Care Leavers The new service provider will be working closely with the social care teams to increase the capacity and participation of children in need of help and protection, children and young people looked after and care leavers and help resolve any matters that young people may need help with.

This will enable young people to move on and avoid any long term dependency for ongoing support.

The contract term will be for a period of 3 (three) years from the 1st September 2018 with an option to extend for a further period of 12 months up to a maximum of 4 (four) years.

The anticipated contract start date witll be the 1st September 2018.

This tender process is being carried out under a one stage open tender procurement under the Light Touch Regime of the PCR 2015 for the purposes of procuring the contract.

The Council requires the successful Service Providers to comply with the London Living Wage.

All potential suppliers are advised to read the supporting documents listed on the London Tenders portal, prior to responding to the invitation to tender.

The deadline for returning your tender is: 12:00:00 noon on 3rd July 2018.

Please direct any communication about this procurement via the www.londontenders.org portal.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The provision of the children's advocacy services

The provision of the children's advocacy services will ensure that the Council meets its statutory duty and supports the effective delivery of our Improvement Plan.

02

This will enable young people to move

This will enable young people to move on and avoid any long term dependency for ongoing support.

03

The Council requires the successful Service Providers

The Council requires the successful Service Providers to comply with the London Living Wage.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Real living wagePolicies & commitments
The Council requires the successful Service Providers to comply with the London Living Wage.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Stage
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Source
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Buyer ref
CROYD001-DN343845-02184315
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