Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Department of Justice
c/o Construction and Procurement Delivery, 303 Airport Road West
Belfast
BT3 9ED
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
DoJ - Cost of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) NI
Reference number
ID 4748059
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 73200000 - Research and development consultancy services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Department of Justice (DoJ) coordinates the Tackling Paramilitary Activity, Criminality and Organised Crime Programme which is the Executive’s response to its commitment made under the Fresh Start agreement of November 2015 and the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) document of 2020. It is reflected in the Programme for Government / Outcomes Delivery Plan and DoJ Corporate Plan for 2022-25. The Tackling Paramilitary Activity, Criminality, and Organised Crime Programme is a collaborative, Executive-wide approach which has the outcome of ‘safer communities, resilient to paramilitarism, criminality and coercive control’. It was initially established in 2016 as a result of the Fresh Start Agreement as a means of implementing the Independent Panel’s Report on the Disbandment of Paramilitary Groups. So far, Programme data confirms the findings of other studies that point to significant levels of trauma in communities where paramilitary activity is prevalent, and among those who are receiving or seeking support from the Programme. For that reason, the Programme is seeking to be trauma informed in all that it does; this means giving due consideration to the impact that trauma has on victims of paramilitarism, as well as those who help and support them. To support this goal, and to better understand need to improve service delivery, the Programme seeks to understand the prevalence of trauma, with the target of establishing a comprehensive baseline of levels of adverse childhood experiences (ACES), childhood trauma and exposure to violence in Northern Ireland. To do so, the Programme wishes to engage a contractor to complete an action research requirement to generate data and produce an associated research report to evidence the prevalence of ACEs, childhood trauma and exposure to violence in Northern Ireland.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2023/S 000-028199
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
II.2.7)
Place of text to be modified
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing. system
Instead of
Text
Duration in months 5
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Text
Duration in months 8
Section number
IV.2.2)
Place of text to be modified
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
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Date
23 October 2023
Local time
3:00pm
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Date
30 October 2023
Local time
3:00pm
seven.2) Other additional information
The end date of the contract period has been amended to end July 2024. The deadline for receipt of tenders has been extended to 3pm on Monday 30th October 2023.