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Lancashire County Council (the Authority) wishes to establish an open Provider List of Break Time and Short Breaks Providers who are suitable, capable and experienced to deliver the required services. This will greatly improve choice and the ability to meet the needs of children and young people with appropriate services. Short Breaks Services ("the Services") are essential for children with disabilities, their parents and their carers, to ensure better outcomes and to prevent escalation of their needs, where possible. The term 'short breaks' describes services that help adult parent/carers to more effectively provide care for their disabled child by providing them regular breaks The Services commissioned from the Provider List are listed below and will support the Authority in fulfilling its statutory duty to provide a full range of Short Break Services to children/young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities ("SEND") which is sufficient to assist their primary carers to continue to provide care or to do so more effectively. The Lots have been developed to cover the range of Services available and have been grouped to align to the service area types and Service User's needs. Applicants are invited to apply for all or any of the following Lots and there is no restrictions for the number of lots they can successful in: Lot 1a Break Time Lot 1b Break Time Plus Lot 2a Day Time Short Breaks 2b Day Time Personal Care Lot 3 Night Time Overnight Short Breaks Lot 4 Intensive Positive Behaviour Support It is intended that the Provider List will remain effect for 5 years, with option to extend on one or more occasions, save that the length of this Provider List Agreement shall not exceed a maximum of 7 years. Service Contracts can be awarded as call-off contracts as detailed within the ITP. This procurement procedure is considered to be subject to the Light Touch Regime under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Provider List is an open list: Applicants can apply to join during its term if the Applicant satisfies the selection, quality and price requirements and is able to deliver the Service as described in the Service Specifications. Evaluations of new Applications will take place annually as detailed in the ITP. The Authority reserves the right to evaluate sooner. Exact Application Evaluation deadlines dates will be communicated via the Sourcing portal as an online discussion or any other format which the Authority stipulates. It is the Authority's intention to evaluate new Applications annually or once 10 new Applications are received, whichever occurs sooner. All instructions on how to participate and apply to join the Flexible Agreement, evaluation criteria, terms and conditions and documents to be returned can be found on following webpage within the Contact details & attachments section of this Opportunity notice.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is seeking applications from potential home care agencies to be admitted to the Council's new Approved Provider List – APL (open framework), this APL will be only be used in extreme circumstances, it is expected that all packages will be awarded through the 'Home Care 2025 – closed framework' for the delivery of new home care packages on behalf of the Council. The APL includes options to extend up to two further twelve month periods up to 31/03/2029 with an estimated total contract value of £17m over the four year period.

Social care support during the day for people living in their own homes. Main place of delivery will be at the residence of the service user, within the Westmorland and Furness footprint. Providers who currently have call off contracts on the current Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Framework for the provision of Home Care Services, who successfully join the new framework, will have those call-off contracts transferred. The AQP Framework is available for use by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and future successor organisations.

Worcestershire Children First is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (the DPS) for SEND Independent School Places and seeks applications from suitably experienced, qualified and appropriately accredited Suppliers who wish to pre-qualify for this Service.The DPS for SEND Independent school places has 7 categories/lots: Lot 1 Communication and InteractionLot 2 Cognition and LearningLot 3 Social, Emotional and Mental HealthLot 4 Sensory and Physical NeedsLot 5 AutismLot 6 Complex/Profound Multiple Learning DisabilitiesLot 7 Post 16The DPS will run from 18th March 2024 to 31st March 2027, with an option to extend for up to 2 further years (1 year + a further 1 year) and in order to be able to tender for business with Worcestershire Children First, Suppliers must first be approved to join the categories within the DPS and then will be automatically notified of opportunities to quote for specific projects as they arise in each Category.

Suffolk County Council are inviting applicants to join a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of Adult and Community Learning Services. Contracts will be for the delivery of learning against the funding the Council receives from the Department for Education (DFE) for the Adult Skills Fund (ASF) for learners aged 19 years and over. Delivery must meet the regulations outlined in the DFE Funding Rules: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-skills-fund-funding-rules-for-2024-to-2025/adult-skills-fund-funding-rules-2024-to-2025 We reserve the right to award places within this DPS to an unlimited number of suppliers. New applicants can join the DPS during the course of the duration. Please note should performance not be compliant with the DPS Tender Terms and Conditions, applicants may be removed from the DPS.

Local authorities across the Southwest of England (the ‘Southwest Regional Consortia’) and other sub-regions have come together to commission 16+ Supported Accommodation using a ‘Light Touch Regime’ pseudo-DPS, in order to fulfil their statutory duty to provide high quality Supported Accommodation to looked after children within their authority. Commissioning as a consortium of authorities allows us to engage meaningfully with the market whilst enabling us to achieve efficiencies in the purchasing and development of services and advocating better care on behalf of children and young people.

Pendle Borough Council are establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of various engineering works which will be created following completion of this Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) process. Once Bidders have been accepted onto the DPS, they will be invited to tender for individual contracts. The DPS will remain open for a period of 3 years

The procurement via a DPS of a new Interim Homecare Contract. The Interim Homecare Service nature and ethos of the service contributes to: people living longer and healthier lives; helping people to live full, active and independent lives; ensuring that people's quality of life is improved by access to quality services; involving people in decisions made about them, and; helping people to live in health and sustainable communities. The service will help to support more people to live safely and independently in an environment that they class as their own homes and giving people choice and control over their health and social care services. The DPS will be reviewed periodically for applications.

Dynamic Purchasing System for the Block purchasing of Temporary and Emergency Accommodation to supply Brighton and Hove City Council

The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) will provide a database of Approved suppliers considered capable of carrying out professional consultancy services to a satisfactory standard. The nature and types of services that may be required may include, but are not limited to, those services identified by the CPV code and summarised in section II.2. The specific services cannot be clearly defined at this stage, however the nature and types of services that may be required may include, but are not limited to, buildings and civils professional consultancy services. The DPS is a 2-stage process: Stage 1 - All providers who meet the selection criteria within the online Questionnaire and are not excluded will be admitted to the DPS. New providers can also apply to join the DPS at any point during its lifetime. Stage 2 - Contracts are awarded during the second stage. A Call-Off competition will be put out inviting each approved provider on the DPS list relating to the particular Lot.

This Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is currently open for Requests to Participate (RTP) from interested Economic Operators up until the 30th April 2025. There is also an option to extend this DPS for an additional two years which, if taken up, the applicable deadline for RTP will be 30th April 2027. Economic Operators may apply to this DPS at any time during its period of validity which runs from 1st May 2020 to the closing date as detailed above. To apply, please go to yortender.eu-supply.com using the following link (https://yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=YORTENDER) using ref 47837 to search for this opportunity. Please note that this notice replaces previous Contracts Finder Notice stating 'Due North' and 'Closed'. This DPS is to select suitable suppliers for the supply and delivery of stone and granite products. This will also include the option of bespoke stone and/or granite products as specified by the Council. These could cover, but are not strictly limited to; Flags, kerbs, setts, edging, channels, walling stone, planters and other street furniture. The exact requirements for each round of purchase/s will be detailed in Further Competition Documents.

A Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Passenger Transport Services as required by Dorset Council. This Dynamic Purchasing System will be used to procure passenger transport services as required by Dorset Council. These requirements may include, but are not limited to, transport for Children to School, Children with Special Education Needs and Children in Care. It may also be used to procure supported public passenger transport services and transport for various social care purposes. Applications to participate with this DPS can be made on the portal: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk REF:DN245509

A Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Passenger Transport Services as required by Dorset Council. This Dynamic Purchasing System will be used to procure passenger transport services as required by Dorset Council. These requirements may include, but are not limited to, transport for Children to School, Children with Special Education Needs and Children in Care. It may also be used to procure supported public passenger transport services and transport for various social care purposes. Applications to participate with this DPS can be made on the portal: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk REF:DN245509 The publishing of this Tender Notice is to communicate the extension of the above DPS (Ref DN245509), which was originally established in May 2017 for a 4 year period ending 30 April 2021. Dorset Council took the option of extending the DPS for a further 4 year period ending 30 April 2025, and now wishes to extend the DPS for a further period of up to 2 years ending 30 April 2027. Dorset Council reserves the right to terminate the DPS prior to 30 April 2027, and also reserves the right to extend the DPS further beyond 30 April 2027, up to a maximum end date of February 2029 in line with Cabinet Office guidance regarding Dynamic Purchasing Systems procured under PCR2015. As part of this extension, any organisation already awarded onto the DPS will not be required to submit a new application. Any new applications can continue to be made at the above mentioned address. Organisations are required to meet defined criteria to be admitted on to the DPS. All organisations that meet and pass the exclusion and selection criteria detailed within the e-procurement portal will be admitted on to the DPS. All suppliers admitted to the DPS will be invited to tender for contracts. Contracts awarded through the DPS will typically be evaluated based upon 100% price, however Dorset Council reserves the right to evaluate tenders on a mix of price and quality criteria and where this approach is used the evaluation criteria and weightings will be clearly communicated to suppliers as part of the invitation to tender. The estimated value of £80 million provided on this tender notice is based on the estimated total value of all passenger transport services required by the Council over the next 2 year period. As requirements are subject to change the value is provided as an estimation only. Please note that the contract start and end dates detailed above are not relevant. Contracts will be awarded throughout the term of the DPS.

The Council intends to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of passenger transport services. The procurement procedure is in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (SI2015/103) (PCR 2015)A Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is a completely electronic system used to purchase commonly used goods, works or services. The DPS may be divided into categories of products, works or services commonly sometimes referred to as lots.The DPS will be open for submissions from 03 May 2022 with further competitions to be issued via the DPS from 24 June 2022

East Sussex County Council are seeking applications for their Approved List for the provision of Supported Accommodation and Accommodation-Based Support for Children and Young People. This Approved List is for Service Providers that will provide supported accommodation and accommodation-based support for: 1) Care Leavers, UASC and young homeless aged 16/17 with high support needs. 2) Care Leavers, UASC and young homeless aged 16/17 with medium support needs. 3) Care leavers and UASC aged 18–21 with ongoing or enduring Multiple and Complex Needs. 4) Pregnant Care Leavers and young parents aged 16-21 with medium support needs. Following a Department for Education’s consultation in 2021, the Government will introduce mandatory national standards and Ofsted-led regulation for providers of supported accommodation who accommodate Looked After Children and Care Leavers aged 16 and 17. The latest information available indicates that registration for regulation will commence in the Spring of 2023, with inspections commencing from October 2023. If the application is received after 28 October 2023 (or such other date as specified under the regulations), the Bidder will Fail if they have not completed Stage 1 of the Ofsted registration process. Only East Sussex County Council are permitted to direct award or run a mini competition under this Approved List, which will remain open at all times, meaning applications can be submitted at any time and previously unsuccessful Bidders may reapply. The evaluation of applications will be undertaken at least twice per financial year, at the discretion of the Council and more frequently in the first 12 months of the Approved List being open. The Approved List is open until 21 May 2027. There is an option to extend for up to a further 24 months.

This Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) will cover the Council's requirements for taxi and minibus passenger transport services, including passenger assistants (escorts), where appropriate, and will encompass home to/from school and college transport, home to/from care transport, Looked After Children, people with additional needs, including complex needs and/or challenging behaviour, other vulnerable people, and councillors and officers of the Council and any other transport requirement as authorised by the Authorised Officer. South Tyneside Council on behalf of itself, and their partner organisations including any: • Public or private entity (including limited companies) in which the Council has a shareholding or interest; • Any Maintained and Academy schools (as defined in the Academies Act 2010) within the Borough of South Tyneside. • South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group, including any successor; • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, including any successor. The DPS will open for Supplier accreditation applications from 14 June 2021 and will run to 13 June 2027. Procurement documents are available free of charge via: https://procontract.due-north.com/Login

Nottinghamshire County Council (The Council) is seeking to establish a provider list, using a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), of contractors able to provide the delivery of Landscaping, Groundworks, Arboriculture and Maintenance Services across the Council’s Green Spaces in Nottinghamshire

Home to School and other Education Taxi Services

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (the Council), is seeking to develop a Framework of Support to Live at Home Care providers. The framework is to be established to provide social care funded packages of support to adults aged 18 and over, who meet the eligibility criteria. This includes adults who have assessed care and support needs associated with older age, physical and sensory impairment, mental illness, learning disability and for people living with dementia. The framework will be in place for 2 years with an option to extend for a further 3 periods each of one year, during which time providers may apply to join or may exit at any time. The framework will commence on 1st November 2022. Total estimate is for the total 5 years (if extensions are granted)

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (the Council), is looking to establish a five-year open flexible framework for the provision of independent housing-based enablement support. The service covers a wide range of support needs for everyday tasks, personal care, managing budgets, maintaining health and wellbeing plus being supported in the community in terms of appointments and activities.The service providers on the framework will support a wide range of needs which overall reduces the requirement for residential care. The framework is split into Tiers that bidders may apply for: Tier 1 - Standard Support Tier 2 – Complex Care Tier 3 – A new tier introduced for enhanced support The framework will be in place for 5 years during which time providers may apply to join or may exit at any time. The framework will commence on 1st March 2023, Total estimate is for the total 5 years