Provision of Short Breaks, Alternative Provision and Early Intervention

Description

Project Description Swindon Borough Council are looking to procure a Framework of providers to provide services against education Alternative Provision, Short Breaks and Early Intervention SEND services. The requirement is being divided into lots where providers can apply for any lot Lots are: Lot 1 Alternative Provision – Swindon Borough Council is seeking a suite of providers to deliver services to children who are not in mainstream education and to prioritise seeking the return of children back into schools setting. Lot 2 Short Breaks – Specialist services – Providing services to help children with very specialist needs Lot 3 Short Breaks – Inclusion- Providing services to help children integrate into everyday activity Lot 4 Short Breaks – Overnight respite- providing overnight respite for carers of children with these needs Lot 5 - Early intervention – providing services which help prevent children going into more advanced care solutions The contract will be for 4 years with no option to extend as stated in the ITT documents. Estimated contract spend across the 4 years is as below: Alternative Provision: £7,946,200 Short Breaks Specialist: £1,173,600 Short Breaks Inclusion: £33,600 Short Breaks Overnight: £457,600 Early Intervention: £510,448 Total Value - £10,121,448.00 over 4 years for all lots Full details relating to the Services are provided in the tender documents. To participate, Suppliers will need to Register as a Supplier with ProContract, www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk, then Register an Interest before obtaining access to the tender documents. In the event of difficulties registering as a supplier, please refer to the System Administrator Proactis support team ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com Tender clarifications to be submitted in writing via Messaging in ProContract tender portal by 20th January 2025, 1200 hrs UK Local time. The Council’s responses to these clarification questions will be issued periodically on the ProContract tender portal. Tender Responses are required to be submitted no later than 27th January 2025, 1400 hrs UK Local time via ProContract tender portal - https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/ Please note that this project has been advertised on Find A Tender Service/ Contracts Finder/ other web portals, however, Supplying the South West Portal, https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/ is the only portal that includes all the relevant documents required to respond to this opportunity, bearing Project Id: DN757423 No Tender submissions will be considered without completing the tender documents in full including attachments and returning them in alignment with the instructions within the tender documents. Keywords: Early Intervention , Alternative Provision,, Day Time Specialist Short Breaks, Inclusion Short breaks, Overnight Short breaks