Children's Social Care Managed Service - Reissued Tender

Swindon Borough Council invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of Children’s Managed Social Care Service.

We require a managed service for any Childrens social care cases for set periods of up to 12 weeks (for the purposes of this paper this is referred to as a “round”), in order to alleviate some of the pressure in the social work teams. Each round may focus on a different aspect of children’s social care, dependant on where capacity is required, this includes fostering services, care leaver activity, statutory assessments, Children In Need, Child Protection and Children Looked After work. The ability to resource additional capacity is critical as the service is experiencing high levels of demand and our social workers have very high caseloads which is impacting work, our ability to recruit social workers and turnover of staff. Performance data and quality assurance work confirms increased demand across all social care teams.

Full details relating to the Services are provided in the tender documents.

To participate, Suppliers will need to Register as a Supplier with ProContract, www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk, then Register an Interest before obtaining access to the tender documents. In the event of difficulties registering as a supplier, please refer to the System Administrator Proactis support team ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com

Contract Period
The contract will be initially for a period of 36 months commencing 1st March 2019 with no option to extend.

Tender Responses
Tender Responses are required to be submitted no later than 18th January 2019, 1200 hrs UK Local time via ProContract tender portal - https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/

Tender Clarifications
If you require any clarifications on the tender documents, please submit these in writing via Messaging in ProContract tender portal, including the project reference and title clearly in the Subject title, by 11th January 2019, 1200 hrs UK Local time.
The Council’s responses to these clarification questions will be issued periodically via Messaging in ProContract tender portal.

Please note that this project has been advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) Contract Notice reference 2018/S 243-555782 Contracts Finder,
however, Supplying the South West Portal, https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/ is the only portal that includes all the relevant documents required to respond to this opportunity, bearing Project Id: DN383220

No Tender submissions will be considered without completing the tender documents in full including attachments and returning them in alignment with the instructions within the tender documents.