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Children's Rights, Advocacy and Independent Visitor Services.

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Herefordshire Council
Council Offices, Plough Lane
For the attention of: Mr Mark Cage
HR4 0LE Hereford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1432383605
E-mail: [email protected]

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.herefordshire.gov.uk

Address of the buyer profile: www.herefordshire.gov.uk

Electronic access to information: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk

Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk

Further information can be obtained from: Herefordshire Council
Council Offices, Plough Lane
For the attention of: Mr Mark Cage
HR4 0LE Hereford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1432383605
E-mail: [email protected]

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: Herefordshire Council
Council Offices, Plough Lane
For the attention of: Mr Mark Cage
HR4 0LE Hereford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1432383605
E-mail: [email protected]

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Herefordshire Council
Council Offices, Plough Lane
For the attention of: Mr Mark Cage
HR4 0LE Hereford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1432383605
E-mail: [email protected]

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.3)Main activity
General public services
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Children's Rights, Advocacy and Independent Visitor Services.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 25: Health and social services
NUTS code
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
The notice involves a public contract
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The Children's Rights and Advocacy service is available to children and young people in need of protection aged 10-19 and up to 25 with a learning difficulty or disability. The service is also available to Looked After Children from birth to 19 years (25 years if they have a learning difficulty or disability).
 Independent Visitor Service (IV) is delivered as part of the local authority duty under the Children Act 1989 that every looked after child has the right to request an independent visitor. The overall objective of the service is to offer support and befriend children and young people who are looked after and have little or no contact with their families.
 There are significant areas of overlap and duplication within the two services where both require providers to deliver independent, targeted advocacy and support services to vulnerable children and young people, who are looked after, in need of protection by the authority or are open to Children's Disability Services.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

85000000, 98000000

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: no
II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
II.2.2)Information about options
Options: no
II.2.3)Information about renewals
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Duration in months: 60 (from the award of the contract)

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no
III.2)Conditions for participation
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts
III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: no

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
Open
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
Envisaged number of operators: 0
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction will be used: no
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
28.5.2015 - 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
28.4.2015
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
English.
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: no
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
VI.3)Additional information
VI.4)Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
28.4.2015