Commissioning Homes for Children Looked After and Care leavers PDPS

The London Borough of Newham wishes to establish a Pseudo-Dynamic Purchasing System (PDPS) for the supply of services in respect of children's externally commissioned care, accommodation and support services. The services include:

Lot 1: Provision of Semi-Independent Living Services

Lot 2: Provision of Children's Homes regulated by Ofsted

Lot 3: Provision of Supported Lodgings - to follow

Lot 4: Provision of Independent Fostering Agencies (IFA) regulated by Ofsted. - to follow

These services will be available to looked after children and care leavers.

Potential Suppliers are invited to Tender for one or more of the Lots.

This PDPS is open for use to the following (and subject to Section 3 Scope of Agreement of LAC PDPS Agreement Processor):

• any Public Body outlined in either Part I or Part II of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 1972. Details of these can be found at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/853/made

The Procurement is being procured by the Authority for the benefit of the Authority and the Partner Organisations.

The procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The procurement is subject to the light-touch regime under Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services. Under Regulation 76 the Council is free to establish a procedure, provided that procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (Suppliers).

The Authority has created a tender process outlined below, as part of the PDPS applying the award criteria specified in this contract notice.

Any interested organisation/consortium with relevant experience may submit a Bid in response to this ITT.

The Council is using the one stage procedure for admission onto the PDPS

A Supplier wanting to join the PDPS will be required to apply through the Council's procurement e-tendering portal; Fusion.

Suppliers who are unsuccessful in a specific Round may apply to be admitted to the PDPS in a subsequent or later Round

The Council will add Potential Suppliers to the PDPS throughout its duration, providing Potential Suppliers meet the requirement as outlined in the ITT and submit an Application, which is found to be compliant.

This PDPS is open for an initial term of 4 years commencing on 25/06/2021 and ending on 24/06/2025 with the option to extend for a further 4 years.

Estimated Total Aggregate Value for Newham across the lifetime of the PDPS is £182,790,000.00

Estimated Total Aggregate Value across all local authorities across the lifetime of the PDPS is £15,600,000,000.00