Tender for the Recruitment of Children’s Agency Social Workers
Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company wishes to establish a Master Vendor Managed Service Provider for the provision of Children’s Agency Social Workers.
United Kingdom-Birmingham: Recruitment services
2019/S 106-259147
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Third Floor Zone 16, 1 Lancaster Circus
Birmingham
B4 7DJ
United Kingdom
Contact person: Corporate Procurement Services
Telephone: +44 1214648000
E-mail: etendering@birmingham.gov.uk
Fax: +44 1213037322
NUTS code: UKG31
Address of the buyer profile: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
P0564 — The Recruitment and Management of Children’s Agency Social Workers
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company (The Trust), wishes to establish a Master Vendor Managed Service Provider (MVMSP) for the provision of Children’s Agency Social Workers. The contract will be awarded on the following basis:
— to 1 experienced managed service provider of Agency Children’s Social workers,
— the MVMSP must be able to supply Children’s Agency Workers themselves or through a supply chain of pre-qualified agencies. The contract will last for 3 years (unless terminated under the terms and conditions of contract) with the provision to extend for up to an additional 2 years subject to requirements and satisfactory performance.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company (The Trust), wishes to establish a Master Vendor Managed Service Provider (MVMSP) for the provision of Children’s Agency Social Workers. The contract will be awarded on the following basis:
— to one experienced managed service provider of Agency Children’s Social workers,
— the MVMSP must be able to supply Children’s Agency Workers themselves or through a supply chain of pre-qualified Agencies. There will be a requirement that The Trust be entitled to request the provision of other agency workers through this contract providing their roles are similar in nature to those stated above. Pricing for these workers (including Tenderers’ margins) shall be determined through reasonable matching against equivalent roles with existing pricing contained within the contract. The additional agency workers likely to be requested may include Family Support Workers, Residential Child Care Officers, Contact and Escort Workers, Leaving Care Personal Advisors and Youth Offending Team Workers.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
With the provision to extend for up to an additional 2 years subject to requirements and satisfactory performance.
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.14)Additional information
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
Details will be provided in tender documentation.
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
Details will be provided in tender documentation.
Details will be provided in tender documentation.
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Details will be provided in tender documentation.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
This procurement falls under Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (social and other specific services). In this case, the procurement process will be based on the open procedure route. However, as is allowable with procurements that fall under the light touch regime, the process conducted by the Council will differ in some ways from the requirements set out in Regulation 29. Registration and use of in-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function. If you are unable to register with in-tend please either email us at cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 01214648000. The Trust will be using the Birmingham City Council’s free to use e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and potential suppliers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. If you wish to express an interest in this opportunity please click on the following link to access https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register. If you are unable to register with In-tend or have any questions or problems on how to use this web site please either email us at: cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call CPS Helpdesk on 01214648000. Your completed tender documentation should be returned by noon 28.6.2019 via the ‘in-tend’ system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc
VI.4.1)Review body
Royal Courts of Justice, Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2079477882
VI.4.3)Review procedure
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: