Children's Residential Personalised Block Contracts - Phase 2
- Essex County Council
Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04a3a3
Description
Essex County Council ("the Council") were seeking to engage providers within the children's residential and fostering space to enter into a block contract agreement for registered provision to support children and young people under the age of 18 who were in unregistered settings. Providers were required to hold Ofsted registered provision and located either in Essex or within 20 miles from the Council's geographic coverage / boundaries.
Please be advised that the contracts for this service were due to be commissioned under an initial term of twelve (12) months (subject to the enactment of the break clause as detailed in the draft terms and conditions for this procurement). Thereafter, the Council, at its sole discretion, may have enacted the options to extend the contract. For the avoidance of any further doubt, please note that this service was due to be commissioned with two (2) optional extension periods, each of which provide an additional twelve (12) month term. Therefore, the maximum duration of each contract per lot would be three (3) years. In addition, please note that the provider(s) would have been required to report their delivery of Social Value in relation to this service as a condition of the enactment of the contractual extensions. The Council were due to provide further details regarding this requirement with the successful bidder(s) during the contract management of this service.
Notices
F03: Contract award notice
- Notice identifier
- 2025/S 000-016277
- Published
- 22 April 2025, 2:47pm
F02: Contract notice
- Notice identifier
- 2025/S 000-002757
- Published
- 27 January 2025, 4:30pm
F01: Prior information notice
- Notice identifier
- 2024/S 000-030995
- Published
- 27 September 2024, 1:37pm