Awarded contract

Independent Specialist Provision for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) - CA&FS - CSC/2023/687*

Details

Supplier(s)
Value
£76,000,000
Duration
4 years
Topic
Education and training services
Published
27 September 2024

Tender description

Independent Specialist Placements for children with SEND provides educational support for children and young people between the ages of 0-25 who have a special educational need and/or disability. This can be provided through nursery, school and college settings.\\r The re-commissioned Flexible Framework will cease the current Framework.\\r *** This is the reopening of this framework at the first 6 month interval *** This contract falls under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 Light Touch Regime (LTR) - Regulations 74 to 77. As such, the City Council will place an advert in Find a Tender Service (FTS), publish an award notice and comply with the principles of transparency and equal treatment.\\r The Flexible approach means that the Tender will open t set periods to allow new Providers onto the Framework. Following the initial tender stage the will be a second opportunity for providers to join the framework after 6 months and then every 12 months following this. *** This is the reopening of this framework at the first 6 month interval ***

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date4 September 2024
  2. Completed: Award published27 September 2024
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date3 September 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local authority, and its Category Management team runs procurement from the Civic Centre. Contract opportunities are listed on the council's own tender-search portal and on the government's Contracts Finder service. Pro-Contract, the Supply Stoke and Staffordshire portal, hosts contract opportunities shared across Staffordshire councils. A Commercial Pipeline gives suppliers advance notice of upcoming contracts before they are formally advertised. Every tendering procedure follows the council's own Procurement Code alongside the Procurement Act 2023. An awarded contracts directory publishes the outcome of every past tender for suppliers to review.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 80000000 · Education and training services

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