# Specialist Adoption and Special Guardianship Order Support Services

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Essex County Council](/buyers/essex-county-council/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £4,752,000
- Published: 14 December 2021
- Planned start: 1 April 2022
- Planned end: 31 March 2026
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 8b097139-6ec7-463d-bdc6-ff45b40f5210-493789
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-57eedf58-8300-4453-95ce-c0f2e6a9aa82

## Description

The overarching objective of the framework is to enable Essex County Council, Suffolk County Council and Thurrock Council to have a compliant mechanism to purchase adoption and SGO support services via a variety of specialist therapeutic services to support the individual family's needs identified via assessment by the SGO and Adoption team\. Thus, improving the stability and resilience of Adoptive and Special Guardianship Order families\. The Framework will have the following Lots of support services which are in line with the support criteria for the Adoption Support Fund \(ASF\): Lot 1 Training Lot 2 Therapeutic Intervention Lot 3 Specialist Assessments Lot 4 Short Breaks

## Related contract awards

- [SuDs & GI in Schools Programme 26/27](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-21aa6201-e389-418a-b3b6-c8f7b6b97eb8): ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
- [Quantity Surveying \(QS\) support for the Ormiston Rivers SEN project](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-792a8c30-dbea-4c19-b53b-675db70c888a): ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
- [NDORS Booking System](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-652764a5-9885-4560-87b1-3ad5260098b7): ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8b097139-6ec7-463d-bdc6-ff45b40f5210-493789)