Awarded contract

SEN Mediation

Details

Value
£85,000
Duration
2 years
Topic
Special education services
Published
4 March 2025

Tender description

The Council requires a specialist provider to deliver a SEND Mediation and Disagreement Resolution Service. The successful provider will provide independent, impartial and confidential mediation and disagreement resolution advice and support in line with the Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice 2015 whilst also taking into account the DfE guidance within the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan. A closed competitive request for quotation will be undertaken to identify the successful supplier. The contract will commence on 01/04/2025 and will run for a period of 12 months of the initial contract term making the expiry date 31/03/2026. The contract will have an option to extend by a further 1 x 12-month extension at the sole discretion of the Council and subject to agreement with the successful provider making the latest possible expiry date 31/03/2027. The budget available for the provision of this contract is £42,500 per annum.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published4 March 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 April 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 6 months

About the buyer

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is a local authority in South Yorkshire, and advertises most of its contract opportunities through YORtender, its e-tendering platform. YORtender also carries live tender opportunities from councils across the Yorkshire region, run as a shared regional procurement platform. A public contract register lists every current agreement the council holds, the service area it covers and a named contact for suppliers. Larger contracts carry social value requirements set out in the council's published social value policy. Procurement follows the reformed rules introduced under the Procurement Act, with dedicated guidance published for prospective suppliers.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council's contract awards have been in construction work, software and information systems and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 80340000 · Special education services
  • 85000000 · Health and social work services
  • 85311300 · Welfare services for children and young people
  • 85312300 · Guidance and counselling services
  • 85312310 · Guidance services
  • 98000000 · Other community, social and personal services

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