Provision of Short Breaks Activities for Children with Disabilities

Sandwell Children's Trust (The Trust) is seeking to engage multiple providers to undertake a variety of short break activities for children and young people with disabilities.

A short break is part of a continuum of services which supports disabled children and their families. The Trust's vision is that throughout the short break offer it will strive to enable disabled children and young people to lead ordinary lives. Disabled children and young people will be able to choose from a full range of services, activities including specialist provision, accessible universal and targeted provision.

The Trust's Short Breaks Programme will be divided into six lots covering an age range of 4-18 years of age. Tenderers should note that the Trust has a maximum available budget of ?555,000 per annum for the contract period. This budget is allocated as follows across six lots:

Lot 1 Personal Assistant Support Total Allocation: ?210,000

Lot 2 Summer Activities (6 weeks) Total Allocation: ?115,000 apportioned as follows: o Sub Criteria A: 4-11 years age range - ?57,500 o Sub Criteria B: 11-18 years age range - ?57,500

Lot 3 Holiday Activities (excluding summer) Total Allocation: ?70,000 apportioned as follows: o Sub Criteria A: 4-11 years age range - ?35,000 o Sub Criteria B: 11-18 years age range - ?35,000

Lot 4 Saturday Activities - ?50,000 Total Allocation: ?50,000 apportioned as follows: o Sub Criteria A: 4-11 years age range - ?25,000 o Sub Criteria B: 11-18 years age range - ?25,000

Lot 5 After School Activities Total Allocation: ?50,000 apportioned as follows: o Sub Criteria A: 4-11 years age range - ?25,000 o Sub Criteria B: 11-18 years age range - ?25,000

Lot 6 Family Activities Total Allocation: ?60,000

If you would like to tender for this provision , please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal and from the homepage click on 'Register' to complete the simple registration process.

The closing date for completed tenders is 12 noon 5th January 2022

Additional information: If you would like to tender for this provision , please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal and from the homepage click on 'Register' to complete the simple registration process.

The closing date for completed tenders is 12 noon 5th January 2022

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No