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Contract Award Notice

Residential Children's Home Service

  • First published: 12 May 2025
  • Last modified: 12 May 2025
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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-h6vhtk-04c29a
Published by:
Milton Keynes City Council
Authority ID:
AA83174
Publication date:
12 May 2025
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

Milton Keynes City Council (the Council) requires provision of Residential Children's Home Service. The contract is to commission an external provider to operate a residential children’s home, utilising the Council’s property. It will be Ofsted-registered Children’s Home offering care for up to 2 Young People with complex needs. The procurement is being run under Light Touch Regime. Intended mainly for planned medium-term placements (3 to 12 months) to bring children back into area, offer stability and focused work to enable move-on to mainstream residential, foster care, SA or home.

Full notice text

Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1) Name and addresses

Milton Keynes City Council

Civic Office, 1 Saxon Gate East

Milton Keynes

MK9 3EJ

UK

Telephone: +44 1908691691

E-mail: corporateprocurement@milton-keynes.gov.uk

NUTS: UKJ12

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/milton-keynes/aspx/Home

Address of the buyer profile: https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.5) Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

Residential Children's Home Service

Reference number: 2024-199

II.1.2) Main CPV code

85311300

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

Milton Keynes City Council (the Council) requires provision of Residential Children's Home Service. The contract is to commission an external provider to operate a residential children’s home, utilising the Council’s property. It will be Ofsted-registered Children’s Home offering care for up to 2 Young People with complex needs. The procurement is being run under Light Touch Regime. Intended mainly for planned medium-term placements (3 to 12 months) to bring children back into area, offer stability and focused work to enable move-on to mainstream residential, foster care, SA or home.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 7 900 000.00  GBP

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

85311300

85000000

85310000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKJ12


Main site or place of performance:

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

The Council wish to commission a suitably qualified and experienced Provider of children’s residential care to operate an Ofsted-registered 2-bed therapeutic children’s home utilising one of the Council’s own properties, for Children and Young People aged 9-18 with complex emotional and behavioural needs.These needs may include, but are not limited to, trauma, attachment, offending including gang affiliation and weapon use, mental health including hospital step down, neurodevelopment (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD and or Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD), substance use and child sexual/criminal exploitation presenting high levels of risk. This is a block Contract, to be let for three (3) years from the agreed service commencement date, with the option to extend subject to review for up to a further two (2) years on a year by year basis.This comprises of core contract costs of £712K p/a, based on a standard 1-1 staffing ratio. However, additional staffing up to a 3-1 ratio may be required at times throughout the duration of the contract, in which case a total envelope of up to £1.58 million p/a is permissible.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion: Quality / Weighting: 60

Price / Weighting:  40

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

II.2.14) Additional information

The maximum contract value for the whole term of the contract including extensions will be £7,900,000. This comprises of core contract costs of £712K p/a, based on a standard 1-1 staffing ratio. However, additional staffing up to a 3-1 ratio may be required at times throughout the duration of the contract, in which case a total envelope of up to £1.58 million p/a is permissible.

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.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2024/S 000-039257

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: 2024-199

Title: Resident Children’s Home Service

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

V.2 Award of contract

V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

04/04/2025

V.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 4

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 3

Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 4

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

CF Support Services Limited

06872748

11, Three Rivers Business Centre, Felixstowe Road

Ipswich

IP10 0BF

UK

NUTS: UK

Internet address(es)

URL: https://www.cfsupportservices.co.uk

The contractor is an SME: Yes

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:

Total value of the contract/lot: : 7 297 760.00  GBP

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

High Court Royal Court of Justice

London

WC24 2LL

UK

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

07/05/2025

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
85000000 Health and social work services Other Services
85310000 Social work services Social work and related services
85311300 Welfare services for children and young people Social work services with accommodation

Delivery locations

ID Description
100 UK - All

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:
corporateprocurement@milton-keynes.gov.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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