Closed tender

Appropriate Adult Reprocurement

Details

Buyer: Essex County Council
Topic: Health and social work services
Published: 9 December 2024
Submission: 27 January 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The role of the Appropriate Adult Service is to safeguard the interests, rights, and entitlements of children and vulnerable adults who have been suspected of committing a criminal offence, ensuring that they are treated in a fair and just manner. We will be procuring this contract for five years with the possibility to extend by another two years. This contract is due to start on the 1st July 2025. The maximum cost for this contract will not exceed £191,000.00 per year, with a total five year cost of £955.000.00 and a total seven year cost of £1,337,000.00. This will be a single stage open procedure with the contract due to start on the 1st July 2025. Rough timeframes for this procurement will be as per below: - Tender opening: 09.12.2024 - Tender period: 23.12.2024 - 27.01.2025 - Final clarification date: 20.01.2025 - Contract award date: 03.05.2025 - Contract start: 01.07.2025 Lot 1: The role of the Appropriate Adult Service is to safeguard the interests, rights, and entitlements of children and vulnerable adults who have been suspected of committing a criminal offence, ensuring that they are treated in a fair and just manner. We will be procuring this contract for five years with the possibility to extend by another two years. This contract is due to start on the 1st July 2025. The maximum cost for this contract will not exceed £191,000.00 per year, with a total five year cost of £955.000.00 and a total seven year cost of £1,337,000.00. This will be a single stage open procedure with the contract due to start on the 1st July 2025. Rough timeframes for this procurement will be as per below: - Tender opening: 09.12.2024 - Tender period: 23.12.2024 - 27.01.2025 - Final clarification date: 20.01.2025 - Contract award date: 03.05.2025 - Contract start: 01.07.2025

Timeline

Completed: Tender published9 December 2024
Current notice
Completed: Submission date27 January 2025

About the buyer

Essex County Council is a local authority that procures through three in-house teams, Corporate, Place and People. Larger opportunities are advertised through Open, the council's own tendering and contract management platform. Smaller and lower-value contract notices instead appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. The Place team commissions highways, waste, energy and transport work, including a dedicated Dynamic Purchasing System for bidders. Construction projects separately run through the Essex Construction Framework, a route for regional contractors. The People team commissions education, social care, adult support and public health services across the county.

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 Essex County Council's contract awards have been in IT services, construction work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

85000000 · Health and social work services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@essex-county-council.gov
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