Tender to Deliver Serious Youth Crime and Prevention Project
To target children and young people between the ages of 10 – 17 years, at risk of being, or already involved in serious youth violence.
United Kingdom-Maidstone: Social work and related services
2020/S 056-134579
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Sessions House
Town: Maidstone
NUTS code: UKJ4
Postal code: ME14 1XQ
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Ms Hannah Brisley
E-mail: Hannah.Brisley@kent.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Serious Youth Crime and Prevention Project
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Kent County Council (KCC), in partnership with Kent Police and Medway Council, have been successful in receiving funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). This funding is to target children and young people (CYP) between the ages of 10 – 17 years, at risk of being, or already involved in serious youth violence.
The strategic aims of the supporting families against youth crime fund are to:
• add capacity to local authorities to help them respond to gang and youth crime issues;
• test and learn from interventions and place-based initiatives;
• drive improved local, multi-agency partnership working with the voluntary and community sector (VCS);
• develop CYP’s personal resilience to withstand peer pressure and make positive choices, particularly at primary to secondary school transition;
• intervene early and raise awareness of the dangers of gangs, youth violence and knife crime;
• challenge a culture of acceptable knife carrying.
Kent County Council secured GBP 1 362 645 over 2 years, in a collaborative bid with Medway Council, Metropolitan Police and Kent Police to deliver across North Kent (Dartford, Gravesham, Sevenoaks and Swale) and Medway. A portion of this funding has secured coordination, Police and analyst time to support the strategic aims of the project. The commissioned element of the project will focus on the operational delivery of services to CYP, their families and their communities, to both tackle and to prevent serious youth violence.
This will be done by:
• preventing people from engaging with gangs and youth violence, including through raising awareness for CYP, their communities, families and professionals who support them;
• protecting vulnerable CYP by increasing community inclusion, safeguarding activity and providing intensive support.
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Kent County Council (KCC), in partnership with Kent Police and Medway Council, have been successful in receiving funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). This funding is to target children and young people (CYP) between the ages of 10-17 years, at risk of being, or already involved in serious youth violence.
The strategic aims of the supporting families against youth crime fund are to:
• add capacity to local authorities to help them respond to gang and youth crime issues;
• test and learn from interventions and place-based initiatives;
• drive improved local, multi-agency partnership working with the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS);
• develop CYP’s personal resilience to withstand peer pressure and make positive choices, particularly at primary to secondary school transition;
• intervene early and raise awareness of the dangers of gangs, youth violence and knife crime;
• challenge a culture of acceptable knife carrying.
Kent County Council secured GBP 1 362 645 over 2 years, in a collaborative bid with Medway Council, Metropolitan Police and Kent Police to deliver across North Kent (Dartford, Gravesham, Sevenoaks and Swale) and Medway. A portion of this funding has secured coordination, Police and analyst time to support the strategic aims of the project. The commissioned element of the project will focus on the operational delivery of services to CYP, their families and their communities, to both tackle and to prevent serious youth violence.
This will be done by:
• Preventing people from engaging with gangs and youth violence, including through raising awareness for CYP, their communities, families and professionals who support them.
• Protecting vulnerable CYP by increasing community inclusion, safeguarding activity and providing intensive support.
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
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.5)Information about negotiation
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.1)Previous publication concerning this procedure
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:
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
All of the dates might be subject to change dependant on external circumstances.
Please use the Kent Business Portal as listed above to communicate with the Council. If you have difficulty doing this and you need to email, then please ensure that all communication should also include andy.jones@kent.gov.uk
VI.4.1)Review body
Postal address: Sessions House
Town: Maidstone
Postal code: ME14 1XQ
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: hannah.brisley@kent.gov.uk
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: