P0564 - The Recruitment and Management of Children's Agency Social Workers

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.

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 (1 +1) subject to requirements and satisfactory performance.

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 0121 464 8000.

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access the Council's tender Portal:- https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register as a bidder. We will send you a log on and password so you can download the tender documentation.

Your completed tender documentation should be returned by noon on 28th June 2019 via the 'in-tend' system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc

Additional information: If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.

Delivery Notes

Birmingham

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No