Delivery of Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work – Buckinghamshire
The ‘Step Up to Social Work’ programme is a 14 month Post Graduate Diploma and must be Health Care Professionals Council validated.
United Kingdom-Aylesbury: Higher education services
2018/S 156-359062
Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
County Hall, Walton Street
Aylesbury
HP20 1UA
United Kingdom
Contact person: Mrs Ann Spence
Telephone: +44 1296382934
E-mail: aspence@buckscc.gov.uk
NUTS code: UKJ13
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Step Up to Social Work Programme
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Step Up to Social Work Programme – Delivery of Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The South East Regional Partnership comprising Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes and Central Bedfordshire Councils, wishes to let a contract to an appropriate education provider to deliver a professional social work qualifying course. The ‘Step Up to Social Work’ programme is a 14 month Post Graduate Diploma and must be Health Care Professionals Council (‘HCPC’) validated, offering places for approximately 20 — 25 students starting in January 2020. The provider will be required to deliver these services to further cohorts during the Contract Period, subject to funding. The provider shall award the PGDip in Social Work to successful students. The programme will be demanding for students, but rewarding. Students will be high calibre graduates with an existing 2:1 degree classification in any academic discipline or 2:2 with additional qualifications at Masters level and with experience of working with children and families, seeking to re-train as social workers. The programme will enable students to build upon their existing knowledge and skills and develop the expertise required for entry to the social work profession.
The contract start date is 1.11.2018. The contract period is six (6) years with the option for two (2) further extensions of 12 months each.
If your organisation wishes to participate in this process, please register on Buckinghamshire Business Portal and express and interest in this opportunity. You will be unable to take part of you do not register on the Portal and express an interest in the opportunity. Link to the Portal http://www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk
Tenders must be returned via Buckinghamshire Business Portal. The tender return date is noon (12:00) 5.9.2018.
II.2.7)Duration of the contract or the framework agreement
II.2.14)Additional information
Option for 2 further extensions of 12 months each after the initial 6 year contract term.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.4)Objective rules and criteria for participation
Rules and criteria are stated in the procurement documents accessed via http://www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk
III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:
As stated in the procurement documents accessed via http://www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Form of procedure
IV.1.11)Main features of the award procedure:
As stated in the procurement documents accessed via http://www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate / Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4.1)Review body
Walton Street
Aylesbury
HP20 1UA
United Kingdom
E-mail: procurement@buckscc.gov.uk
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: