Residential and Community Family Assessments Norfolk County Council
Make available 4 residential beds for the purpose of family assessment; Undertake around 30 residential assessments per year.
United Kingdom-Norwich: Health and social work services
2015/S 011-015032
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Norfolk County Council
County Hall, Martineau Lane
For the attention of: Andrew Fish
NR1 2DH Norwich
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.norfolk.gov.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 25: Health and social services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Norfolk.
NUTS code UKH13
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The service will:
— Make available 4 residential beds for the purpose of family assessment;
— Undertake around 30 residential assessments per year;
— Have in place a permanent, suitably qualified staffing establishment able to deliver safe robust assessments and where there is a night monitoring service for all assessments to be included in the contract price;
— Undertake community assessments as requested during periods of lower occupancy rates in the residential component of the service;
— Assist and support parents to acquire the skills, insight and capacity necessary for parenting, whilst building on existing strengths;
— Encourage parents to take responsibility for their children and their own lives so that they will be able to live independently in the community, whilst identifying the support which would be necessary to enable them to do this;
— Support parents in the event of removal of children due to safeguarding concerns within the context of the assessment;
— Assess capacity and application of parenting skills (whilst building on existing strengths) in a residential or community setting.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
85000000, 85144000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
The Service will:
— Make available 4 residential beds for the purpose of family assessment;
— Undertake around 30 residential assessments per year;
— Have in place a permanent, suitably qualified staffing establishment able to deliver safe robust assessments and where there is a night monitoring service for all assessments included in the contract price;
— Undertake community assessments as requested by the provider during periods of lower occupancy rates in the residential component of the service;
— Assist and support parents to acquire the skills, insight and capacity necessary to parent, while building on existing strengths;
— Encourage parents to take responsibility for their children and their own lives so that they will be able to live independently in the community, while identifying the supports which would be necessary to enable them to do this;
— Support parents in the event of removal of children due to safeguarding concerns within the context of the assessment;
— Assess implementation of parenting skills and capacity (whilst building on existing strengths) in a residential or community setting.
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As per tender document.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
As per tender document.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As per tender document.
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
This procurement will be managed via the Council’s e-procurement system.
To participate in this procurement, applicants must first be registered on the procurement system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc
Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfiles
Once registered you will be able to see the procurement under the ‘tenders’ section and ‘express an interest’ to view the documentation.
If you encounter any difficulties whilst using the system you can contact the support team by phoning +44 8442728810 or e-mailingsupport@intend.co.uk
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
Proceedings must be brought within 30 days from the date of knowledge (the date on which the economic operator first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen) unless the Court considers that there is good reason for extending the period within which proceedings may be brought, in which case the Court may extend that period up to a maximum of 3 months from the date of knowledge.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: