A specialist contractor is required who can provide a direct work force at a reasonable cost and deliver a wide range of maintenance services and compliance inspections across a portfolio which includes Schools, Libraries, Leisure buildings, Youth & Community Centres, Children & Adult Services premises, Corporate Buildings, and buildings owned and managed by the council. Each building specified in these procurement documents requires a component of or a full LSS service.
Contract period 3 years plus 2 optional 12 month extensions.
A specialist contractor is required who can provide a direct work force at a reasonable cost and deliver a wide range of maintenance services and compliance inspections across a portfolio which includes Schools, Libraries, Leisure buildings, Youth & Community Centres, Children & Adult Services premises, Corporate Buildings, and buildings owned and managed by the council. Each building specified in these procurement documents requires a component of or a full LSS service.
Bracknell Forest Council carries out regular consultation with residents and service users as well as surveys of its staff members, with the key objective of ensuring that the information provided is used to improve the way we work and provide services to residents.
The council is looking to put in place a Contract for the provision of Consultation and Engagement services to meet the needs of service users and the workforce.
The contract duration will be for a maximum of 4 years, covering an initial period of 3 years, plus 1 optional extension of 1 year (i.e. 3 + 1)
Bracknell Forest Council carries out regular consultation with residents and service users as well as surveys of its staff members, with the key objective of ensuring that the information provided is used to improve the way we work and provide services to residents.
The council is looking to put in place a Contract for the provision of Consultation and Engagement services to meet the needs of service users and the workforce.
The contract duration will be for a maximum of 4 years, covering an initial period of 3 years plus 1 optional extension of 1 year (i.e. 3 + 1)
The Housing Service commissions housing related support for vulnerable people who are threatened with or at risk of becoming homeless. In addition, it also enables vulnerable people who need help to maintain their tenancy and live independently in the community.
The Housing Service commissions housing related support for vulnerable people who are threatened with or at risk of becoming homeless. In addition, it also enables vulnerable people who need help to maintain their tenancy and live independently in the community.
The Housing Service commissions housing related support for vulnerable people who are threatened with or at risk of becoming homeless. In addition, it also enables vulnerable people who need help to maintain their tenancy and live independently in the community.
The Housing Service commissions housing related support for vulnerable people who are threatened with or at risk of becoming homeless. In addition, it also enables vulnerable people who need help to maintain their tenancy and live independently in the community.
The Council intends to award a contract to a single provider (either as sole provider, prime/lead provider or as part of a consortium) for Youth Counselling Provision. The proposed Youth Counselling service will support children and young people aged 12-25 years and forms part of the wider CAMHS partnership. The CAMHS partnership includes Early Help, Public Health, Children’s Social Care, Education, Youth and Community Services and GPs. The provider will be required to have appropriately qualified counselling practitioners, and volunteers and a Practice Manager.
Bracknell Forest Council carries out regular consultation with residents and service users as well as surveys of its staff members, with the key objective of ensuring that the information provided is used to improve the way we work and provide services to residents. The council is looking to put in place a Contract for the provision of Consultation and Engagement services to meet the needs of service users and the workforce. The contract duration will be for a maximum of 4 years, covering an initial period of 3 years, plus 1 optional extension of 1 year (i.e. 3 + 1)
Bracknell Forest Council is looking for a suitable provider to deliver a Public Health Nursing service (Health Visiting and School Nursing) to improve the health outcomes and reduce inequalities for the 0 to 19-year-old (25 for Special educational needs and disability (SEND)) children, young people and their families in line with the updated Healthy Child Programme (HCP) national model and guidance (2021)
The main aim of the service is to improve health and wellbeing among children and young people by promoting good health behaviours, preventing ill health, and reducing inequalities
This procurement process is being completed under the Light Touch Regime, governing Social and Other Specific Services detailed in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Council will evaluate the tenders as follows.:
(1) An initial desk review based on Schedule 1 and financial standing. In addition, the Council may contact the referees. We expect providers to self-exclude if they cannot meet or exceed the capabilities required.
(2) Those tenderers who pass stage (1) will then be fully evaluated by the team based on the remainder of the submitted documentation.
The Contract Period will commence on 1st April 2024 with an initial 5 year term and a discretionary 2 year extension (1+1 years). Total contract value estimated between 10,000,000.00 and 10,500,000.00 pounds depending on usage and contract duration. Organisations must register their interest on the South East Business Portal in order to receive any changes or notifications issued by the Council during this tender process. The Council will not be held responsible for lack of communication to any organisation who does not register their interest.
Clarification questions can also be sent through this site via the messaging facility.
Economic and Financial Standing. The authority will seek more information from independent credit agencies as part of the evaluation and reserves the right to undertake credit checks at each stage of the procurement process and after contract award.
The council reserves the right not to award the contract in whole or in part, to cancel or amend the tender process and does not bind itself to accept any tender. The Council shall not be liable under any circumstances for any costs or expenses incurred by any bidder or prospective bidder in responding to this notice or in taking part in this procurement process.
Bidders are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems
Bracknell Forest Council, Property Services, are undertaking a new scheme of develop-ment within the Council to provide residential accommodation for persons of transient living, and those in critical need of housing. The completed project will provide a safe and secure abode until further housing assistance is available for a total of 7 individuals and families as set out below.
Following Bracknell Forrest Council's Executive funding approval for the scheme, Property Services, along with the supporting Project Team, have a delivery programme and target construction start date for Spring 2024 for the delivery of these units. The site is a disused concrete hardstanding car park located between Bagshot Road and Opladen Way, Bracknell, RG12 0SH.
Please note that under the project funding requirements, the Council (through their framework of contractors) will award the highways and section 278 works for the access road to to a different supplier separate from this contract.
Key objectives to the project will be;
• for the contractor to continue a compliance with Carbon Net Zero build throughout the construction phase and handover, including strategies for car-bon reduction through built materials and chosen suppliers.
• Further detail requirements on CNZ will be made available within the Tender documents.
• Initial outline of achieving CNZ will include Solar PV panels, Air Source Heat Pumps and Mechanical HAV, lower power consumption goods, low energy electrical systems, ev charging along with new development requirements of new power, water supply, drainage and telecoms services.
The development comprises of the provision of seven (7)affordable rented dwellings for use as temporary accommodation including the provision of ancillary external space and creation of a new vehicular access to the site, to provide the following dwellings:
• 4 x Building Regulations Approved Document M category 1 Apartments
• 1 x Building Regulations Approved Document M category 3 Accessible House
• 2 x Building Regulations Approved Document M category Accessible House
Expressions of Interest can be made through the Council's procurement portal;
https://sebp.due-north.com/
Soft Market Testing for Building Design Consultancy Services
The Council has been working with a Managing Partner, since 2013 to deliver the various construction programmes of work including Education & Corporate One-Off Capital Schemes, Annual Planned Maintenance Programmes and various survey programmes, the contract is due to expire at the end of June 2025
The Council is currently looking at options to procure a single organisation (not a consortium of organisations) to support the delivering of planned and capital construction project from inception to completion and to include an advice, design, project and programme management service for new builds, extensions and refurbishments of existing buildings from contract ranging from £200k to £10million.
The Councils’ Capital Programme: Spend per annum typically comprises of:
• £3m on school extensions and remodelling to School buildings.
• Up to £4m new works and refurbishments on other Council buildings.
• £1m planned maintenance on school buildings
• £1m planned maintenance on other Council buildings.
The current contract will expire on 30th June 2025 to allow for completion of the key construction projects. The current Managing Partner also handled all retention/defects liability issues in respect of projects started/completed during their tenure.
Succession Planning: The Consultant will begin working with the Council from April 2025, including:
• Familiarising themselves with the Councils’ Estate and key personnel
• Begin working up new projects required for delivery in the 2025/2026 financial year
• Working up to full handover from the current Managing Partner on 30th June 2025
1.2.1 A specialist contractor is required who can provide a direct work force at a reasonable cost and deliver a wide range of maintenance services and compliance inspections across a portfolio which includes Schools, Libraries, Leisure buildings, Youth & Community Centres, Children & Adult Services premises, Corporate Buildings, and buildings owned and managed by the council. There are 92 locations throughout Bracknell, with 192 buildings, each building requiring a component of or a full Provision of Legionella Management service.
This service is intended to support any resident of Bracknell Forest, aged 18+, requiring additional support on discharge from hospital. The service will liaise with key stakeholders to receive and action referrals.
People will be supported for a short period of time with both visits and telephone calls to support emotional needs, small practical tasks and relevant signposting and guidance. The service is not expected to provide personal care.
Contract term - initial 2 year period with two optional 12 month extensions (i.e.2+1+1 years)
The method statement sets out the requirements and expectations for Providers of Opiate Substitution Therapy in Bracknell Forest.
This method statement has been developed in accordance with legislation and best practice guidance.
Provision of Independence Support and Supported Living Framework
The specification sets out the requirements and expectations for Providers delivering packages of support through the Independence Support and Supported Living (ISSL) Framework for adults with learning disabilities and autism in Bracknell Forest.
This specification has been developed in accordance with legislation and best practice guidance.
People with learning disabilities and autism and carers have been involved in the development of the specification. Feedback was gathered via questionnaires as well as face to face engagement with community groups and sub-groups of the Bracknell Forest Learning Disability and Autism Partnership Board. This has led to the development of a Support Worker Agreement. Providers are expected to ensure that this agreement is adhered to by all members of support staff.
Place, Planning, and Regeneration Systems Replacement
BFC have been using Uniform / IDOX since the year 2000. As the years have progressed, new modules / features have been bolted in as they have been acquired by Uniform / IDOX to build an evolving cluster of systems of different origins. On legacy infrastructure, these systems were serviceable, however in a cloud-based environment these systems are no longer fit for purpose. Teams in Place, Planning and Regeneration have data housed in multiple locations (Uniform App, IDOX DMS, SharePoint, personal OneDrives, and an Azure File Server) which poses both high chances of data duplication and incomplete records. Users are unable to trust that data will synchronise from SharePoint to other related systems consistently and tend to save records in different places to mitigate loss. Any new system will need to possess natively integrated modules built on cloud architecture that all write to one DMS to combat this issue. BFC is looking to address these risks and build faith within a new system where one version of the truth exists and can be accessed by all appropriate officers whilst also providing an improved user experience.
Place, Planning, and Regeneration Systems Replacement
BFC have been using Uniform / IDOX since the year 2000. As the years have progressed, new modules / features have been bolted in as they have been acquired by Uniform / IDOX to build an evolving cluster of systems of different origins. On legacy infrastructure, these systems were serviceable, however in a cloud-based environment these systems are no longer fit for purpose. Teams in Place, Planning and Regeneration have data housed in multiple locations (Uniform App, IDOX DMS, SharePoint, personal OneDrives, and an Azure File Server) which poses both high chances of data duplication and incomplete records. Users are unable to trust that data will synchronise from SharePoint to other related systems consistently and tend to save records in different places to mitigate loss. Any new system will need to possess natively integrated modules built on cloud architecture that all write to one DMS to combat this issue. BFC is looking to address these risks and build faith within a new system where one version of the truth exists and can be accessed by all appropriate officers whilst also providing an improved user experience.