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

Development of Teaching Resources for Social Services Practitioner Qualification

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Description of the goods or services required

Social Care Wales are seeking tender submissions for the development of teaching resources for the new level 4 City and Guilds Social Services Practitioner qualification.

Background

The new level 4 Social Services Practitioner (SSP) qualification went live from 1 September 2020. The delivery of the qualification is complex in that it must be assessed by a qualified social worker, with funding drawn down via the apprenticeship framework by work based learning providers. To make this work, there needs to be partnership agreements between local authorities (who have access to the qualified social workers and will provide learners) and work based learning providers (who can access the money but limited qualified social workers).

Social Care Wales (SCW) have set up a National Partnership Social Services Practitioner / Information, Advice and Assistance (SSP/IAA) group and 3 Regional Partnership SSP/IAA groups to take the work forward. It has been agreed that although the partnership agreements with work based learning providers (WBLP) would be arranged on a regional basis, the teaching resources would be developed using an all Wales approach to support consistency of learning.

Initially, we split the 6 units up between the Regional Partnership Group to develop the teaching resources, however, this is proving to be problematic as the local authorities simply do not have the capacity to complete the work and there is a huge imbalance within each region of what each local authority is able to contribute.

There are 5 units in total which need teaching resources. The safeguarding unit will be covered by local authority statutory training.

Some of the units already have resources which could be used, i.e.; from our ‘Act’ hub, and some have none at all. Each unit has been mapped to all resources identified and National Occupational Standards.

The work would be governed by the National Partnership Group (of which Social Care Wales are a member).

It is anticipated that the work shall be commissioned across a number of providers, thereby forming a Supplier Framework, to ensure that sufficient knowledge will be available across the various suppliers within the framework, to develop all of the required teaching resources.

Suppliers may tender for any one, or multiple lots, or even all of the lots, according to their abilities and capacity.

See Specification for more detail

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=105788.

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

There is a budget of £21,000 agreed for this tender (inclusive of any applicable VAT). If however, your proposal exceeds this value, please ensure that you provide explanation for the potential additional cost, as there is a possibility that additional funding could be made available, depending on the content of the proposals received.

The work associated to this Tender requires completion by 22 March 2021, however, this may be extended until 31 March 2021 if deemed necessary.

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

4.5

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

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

(WA Ref:105788)

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