Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Cadw - Welsh Government
Welsh Government Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
UK
Contact person: Christine Wells
E-mail: christine.wells@gov.wales
NUTS: UKL
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.welshgovernment@gov.wales
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0007
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Provision of Child Arrangement Activities - WT4C
Reference number: C200/2022/2023
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80400000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
On behalf of the Welsh Ministers Cafcass Cymru are seeking to appoint a range of providers to deliver the Working Together for Children Programme (WT4C) across the whole of Wales.
The purpose of this contract is to improve a family’s ability to seek resolution and prepare them to achieve safe, beneficial, and sustainable communication and arrangements for their child(ren).
The aims of the WT4C programme reflect and support the strategic aims of Cafcass Cymru, namely, to ensure that our intervention promotes the voice of the child and is centred on their rights, welfare and best interests and one of our underpinning principles that “where safe, children and young people are best brought up by their own family and within their own community”.
The objective of this contract is to enable a service that can be delivered primarily remotely and where required, on an ad hoc basis, face to face as determined by individual participants’ needs. To achieve this, we will appoint up to 3 providers to enable coverage across all local authorities within Wales in a timely manner. It is anticipated that the 3 highest scoring suppliers will be appointed, subject to the award process outlined in the ITT.
Where in exceptional circumstances face to face attendance is required, as determined by the Cafcass Cymru practitioner, Cafcass Cymru will determine which of the 3 providers will be best able to deliver depending upon the service user’s location. Cafcass Cymru may offer additional financial support to the supplier if the service user’s location is not within a reasonable distance of one of the contracted providers office centres. All remote referrals will be allocated on a rotational and equal basis to all appointed suppliers.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
276 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80400000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
On behalf of the Welsh Ministers Cafcass Cymru are seeking to appoint a range of providers to deliver the Working Together for Children Programme (WT4C) across the whole of Wales.
The purpose of this contract is to improve a family’s ability to seek resolution and prepare them to achieve safe, beneficial, and sustainable communication and arrangements for their child(ren).
The aims of the WT4C programme reflect and support the strategic aims of Cafcass Cymru, namely, to ensure that our intervention promotes the voice of the child and is centred on their rights, welfare and best interests and one of our underpinning principles that “where safe, children and young people are best brought up by their own family and within their own community”.
The objective of this contract is to enable a service that can be delivered primarily remotely and where required, on an ad hoc basis, face to face as determined by individual participants’ needs. To achieve this, we will appoint up to 3 providers to enable coverage across all local authorities within Wales in a timely manner. It is anticipated that the 3 highest scoring suppliers will be appointed, subject to the award process outlined in the ITT.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: No
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
24/03/2023
Local time: 17:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
CY
IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
27/03/2023
Local time: 10:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
VI.3) Additional information
Tender Information:
https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk
The first person from your Organisation to use the Platform will be required to register on behalf of the Organisation.
Registration involves accepting a User Agreement, and providing basic information about your Organisation and about the User performing the Registration.
The User who performs the Registration becomes the Super User for the Organisation.
On registering on the Platform the Super User will select a Username and will receive a password.
The Password will be sent by e-mail to the email address that was specified in the User Details section of the Registration page.
In order to log-in to the Platform please enter your Username and Password.
Note: If you forget your Password then visit the homepage and click “Forgot your password?”
Registration should only be performed once for each Organisation.
If you think that someone in your Organisation may have already registered on this Platform then you must not register again.
Please contact the person who Registered (i.e. the Super User) in order to arrange access to the Platform.
Contact the Helpdesk immediately if you are unable to contact the Super User (for example if they have left your Organisation).
Note: If your Organisation is already registered on the Platform then you must not make any additional registration. Please contact the Helpdesk to gain access to the Platform.
Tenders must be uploaded to the BravoSolution portal by 17:00 GMT
How To Find The ITT:
Once logged in you must click on ‘ITT’s Open to all Suppliers’
The e-tender references for this contract are: project 52630, ITT 101304.
Click on the title to access summary details of the contract. If you are still interested in submitting a tender, click the ‘Express an Interest button’. This will move the ITT from the ‘Open to all Suppliers’ area to the ‘My ITT’s’ on the home page.
You will then see the full details of the ITT in the qualification and technical envelopes along with any relevant documents in the ‘Attachments’ area.
Should you have any questions on the ITT, please use the ‘Messages’ area to contact the buyer directly – Please do not contact the named person at the top of this notice.
NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=115828
Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver Community Benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The Community Benefits included in this contract are:
Community benefits will be non-core.
(WA Ref:115828)
The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia.
NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=117747
(WA Ref:117747)
NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=129370
(WA Ref:129370)
The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
High Court
Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
Telephone: +44 2079477501
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
23/02/2023