Tender

North Northamptonshire Council Holiday Activities and Food Programme Coordination and Implementation

  • North Northamptonshire Council

F21: Social and other specific services – public contracts (contract notice)

Notice identifier: 2022/S 000-027236

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-036c49

Published 28 September 2022, 4:18pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

North Northamptonshire Council

Sheerness House 41 Meadow Road

Kettering

NN168TL

Contact

North Northamptonshire Procurement Team

Email

procurement@northnorthants.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKF25 - North Northamptonshire

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/

one.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nnc/

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nnc/

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

Health


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

North Northamptonshire Council Holiday Activities and Food Programme Coordination and Implementation

Reference number

NNC00000258

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking to procure a supplier to work with the council on the coordination and implementation of the Holiday Activities and Food Programme. This is a Department for Education Funded programme to deliver holiday activities, including a meal, to eligible children and their families during the Easter, Summer and Christmas school holiday.

This holiday provision is for school aged children from reception to year 11 (inclusive) who receive benefits-related free school meals. Local authorities have discretion to use up to 15% of their funding to provide free or subsidised holiday club places for children who are not in receipt of benefits-related free school meals but who the local authority believe could benefit from HAF provision.

The Department for Education have confirmed that funding will continue to be available until at least 2025. The Council is therefore procuring a supplier to deliver the service for two years (until the end of the 2024-25 financial year, with the option to extend for a further 2 years (1+1) should further funding be available).

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £4,400,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF25 - North Northamptonshire

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking to procure a supplier to work with the council on the coordination and implementation of the Holiday Activities and Food Programme. This is a Department for Education Funded programme to deliver holiday activities, including a meal, to eligible children and their families during the Easter, Summer and Christmas school holiday.

This holiday provision is for school aged children from reception to year 11 (inclusive) who receive benefits-related free school meals. Local authorities have discretion to use up to 15% of their funding to provide free or subsidised holiday club places for children who are not in receipt of benefits-related free school meals but who the local authority believe could benefit from HAF provision.

The Department for Education have confirmed that funding will continue to be available until at least 2025. The Council is therefore procuring a supplier to deliver the service for two years (until the end of the 2024-25 financial year, with the option to extend for a further 2 years (1+1) should further funding be available).

The supplier is responsible for ensuring there is a sufficient supply of places for eligible children to attend Holiday Activity and Food programme provision in each of the holiday periods.

It is not expected that the supplier will deliver services directly themselves but that they will work with local deliver partners who will deliver the services to children, young people and their families.

Overall, the supplier is expected to offer the equivalent of 6 weeks' holiday provision to eligible children.

Over Easter:

- we expect that all participating children should benefit from at least a week of face-to-face provision at Easter, which should be for a minimum of 4 days

- for most children, each day at Easter should consist of at least 4 hours of provision, but the local authority should ensure that provision is tailored to need

Over summer:

- participating children should be offered at least 4 weeks of face-to-face provision, which cover a minimum of 16 days

- for most children, each day during summer should consist of at least 4 hours of provision, but the local authority should ensure that provision is tailored to need

Over Christmas:

- we expect that all participating children should benefit from a week of support which covers a minimum of 4 days

- for most children, each day of face-to-face provision at Christmas should consist of at least 4 hours of provision but the local authority should ensure that provision is tailored to need.


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Form of procedure

Open procedure

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date

28 October 2022

Local time

12:00pm

four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

English