DERBY CITY COUNCIL

Corporation Street

Derby

DE1 2FS

UK

Contact person: Paul Hallsworth

Telephone: +44 1332640768

E-mail: procurement@derby.gov.uk

NUTS: UKF11

Internet address(es)

Main address: www.derby.gov.uk

II.1.1) Title

Reference number: TD2159

II.1.2) Main CPV code

85000000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

Derby City Council (the Council) is undertaking this procurement on behalf of itself and the Derby and Derbyshire NHS Integrated Commissioning Board to establish a contract for the provision of an Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service for Children in Care.

We seek a single provider, lead provider, or consortium to deliver a trauma informed service which embeds and delivers interventions to children in care (CIC) and their therapeutic parenting team which meets their individual emotional and mental health needs and creates stability in placements.

The service will ensure the needs of the child are paramount, using a range of interventions via direct or indirect work. This will deliver to all children in care who meet the inclusion criteria, including those children who are placed within the Local Authority boundaries from other areas. It will also include those who are cared for by the Local Authorities approved foster carers, that live never more than 5 miles outside of the Derbyshire Footprint.

The overall aim of the service is to improve the emotional health and wellbeing of CIC via direct support to the child and / or indirect support to the therapeutic parenting team.

The service will offer a range of appropriate evidence based, trauma informed interventions, both group and one to one. The service is not expected to prescribe medications, nor does it need to be CQC registered.

In addition to the core specification, we are including a two year "proof of concept" service for Children in Care with complex needs through a Coordination and Advisory Team.

The contract term for this element of the specification is 19 months; commencing in line with the core requirement on 1st September 2025 and expiring 31st March 2027. (the incumbent provider is expecting to commence the service within its existing service delivery from April 2025).

II.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 6 746 050.00  GBP

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

List and brief description of conditions:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

Any supplier may be disqualified who:

(a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where

he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is

in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;

(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding

up the administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar

proceedings under national laws and regulations;

(c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the

legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;

(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract

authorities can demonstrate;

(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in

accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the

country of the contracting authority;

(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal

provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting

authority;

(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section

or has not supplied such information;

(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organization, as defined in

Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;

(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of

26 May 1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;

(j)has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention

relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;

(k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in

Article 1 of Council

Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the

purpose of money laundering.

III.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

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.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 24/03/2025

Local time: 23:00

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Duration in months: 3 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 25/03/2025

Local time: 10:00

VI.4.1) Review body

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Derby City Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar days standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into.

Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be required from the contact details provided in section 1.1 of this notice.

If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Si 2015 No 102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court(England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months).

Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages. [The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow parties to apply to the Courts to set aside the award decision before the contract is entered into].