CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

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Title

Evaluation and Impact Assessment

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Description of the goods or services required

Social Care Wales was established in April 2017, bringing together social care workforce regulation, workforce development and service improvement in one organisation. We provide national leadership and expertise in social care and early years. We lead on regulating and developing the social care workforce, service improvement and supporting the use of data and research to improve care. Our strategic priorities1 include:

-supporting people who work in social care in Wales to use research, data and evidence to develop practice, service design and policy-making

-supporting social care services to embed and deliver strengths-based approaches to care and support

More information on the work of the organisation over the next 5 years can be found on our website: https://socialcare.wales/about-us/our-outcomes

Our work on developing our 5 year plan is based on the Theory of change (logic model); Contribution Analysis; Organisational effectiveness reviews and deep-dive evaluations on specific issues. So while we have outcomes and measuring our impact assessment processes in place at a business level, we have identified some gaps in how we measure and understand our improvement and development activity.

Aims and objectives

The aims of part 1 of this project are to:

develop a prospective impact assessment and evaluation plan for three Social Care Wales projects:

establishing our online and face-to-face communities to support the use of evidence

the National social care data portal2

the implementation of the Wellbeing Framework

These three areas have been identified as they cover different aspects of our improvement and development activity: those focused on engagement and enabling groups; one focussed on a product/system; and the third a framework to support improvement in local services.

Build the capacity of Social Care Wales improvement and development staff to build in prospective impact assessment into our routine project planning and implementation.

The purpose of part 2 of this project is to enable us to access additional resources if and when we have a need for further stakeholder management, capacity building, or evaluation design and implementation.

Please see Specification for more information.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=129863.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers 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.

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Notice Coding and Classification

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Total quantity or scope of tender

Budget

The budget for part 1 is £40,000 (exclusive of any applicable VAT), with the work to be completed by March 2025.

The budget for part 2 will be variable. The awarding contract will be set at zero with the opportunity to scale up in accordance with new and emerging improvement and development activity. The Supplier will provide a daily fee rate associated with the project for consideration through the evaluation process.

Length of contract

The initial contract will run from point of awarding (circa end-April 2023 – Q1 2023/24) until 31 March 2025. Part 2 of the required services, if required, will run in parallel with Part 1 during this term.

A break clause will be inserted on 31 March 2024 which Social Care Wales reserves the right to not enact.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

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Time Limits

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Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

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Additional Information

(WA Ref:129863)

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice