Official UK procurement notice
Adoption Tees Valley - Approved Specialist Assessment and Therapeutic Services Providers Framework
Authority: Stockton on Tees Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionAdoption Tees Valley (Hosted by Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, is seeking to establish approved providers for 2 main categories of therapeutic service delivery, which will be allocated against the following LOTS:
- Specialist Assessments
- Therapeutic Services
Providers of Specialist Assessment services, and of Therapeutic Services are invited to submit an application to be appointed to the APL.
The intended user group is to include:
-Adopted children
-Children placed for adoption, but not yet adopted
-Children with an adoption plan, not yet placed
-Adoptive families
-Adopted adults
-Children and their families affected by special guardianship
-Those whom a Local Authority member believe would benefit from an intervention of this nature.
The requirement is to deliver services across the Tees Valley area for children who are the statutory responsibility of Adoption Tees Valley and/or the consortium members. Other Local Authorities who have placed a child for adoption in the Tees Valley area and remain responsible for adoption support under the 3-year rule, may also be invited to consider selection of a provider through this APL.
Adoption Tees Valley feel it is crucial that families are given the opportunity to participate in the selection process in deciding who they will engage with in delivery of therapeutic services, and this service specification sets out to allow for this to be an “informed choice”.
CPV: Administrative healthcare services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 20 bids on the busiest of 2 lots · 24 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · no lot values publishedLot #1Specialist Assessments
Completion of Standard Selection Questionnaire and Award Questionnaire.
The Specialist Assessment must be eligible for funding from the ASF and must meet all of the criteria below, for the purposes of this service, as commissioned by Adoption Tees Valley:
-Provision of an in-depth specialist assessment of the child and family’s needs, with a focus on trauma and attachment, and how this demonstrates the links to the assessment of support needs.
-The specialist assessment must be led and undertaken by a qualified clinician. This will be someone who diagnoses and treats “patients”; is suitably qualified and is licensed to practice via HCPC, and is a Clinical Psychologist, or Attachment Psychotherapist.
-The clinician undertaking the specialist assessment must access professional clinical supervision, in relation to the assessment, at least 2 x over the duration of the assessment, from a suitably qualified clinician, who is either a psychologist, or an attachment psychotherapist.
-The specialist assessment must result in a therapeutic support plan for the child and family.
-The price for the specialist assessment must be within the fair access limit of 2,500 GBP, inclusive of all costs and VAT.
Lot #2Therapeutic Services
Completion of Standard Selection Questionnaire and Award Questionnaire.
The service is the provision of a therapeutic intervention with either the child, and/or family with a focus on trauma and attachment. The therapeutic intervention will be delivered over a series of sessions and will be geared towards helping to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children.
It is recognised that there are a range of interventions that providers may be qualified and experienced to deliver. Adoption Tees Valley wishes to procure a range of therapies, in order to maximise the accessibility and availability of suitable therapeutic interventions according to the child and families’ needs.
The therapeutic model must be eligible for funding from the Adoption Support Fund, up to the fair access limit of 5,000 GBP per child, inclusive of all costs and VAT.
Therapies eligible for funding include, but are not limited to:
-Play therapy
-Individual psychotherapy
-Group therapy
-Family therapy
-Behaviour modification
-Cognitive therapy
-Trauma Attachment focussed therapy
-Creative arts therapies
-Sensory integration & Sensory attachment therapies
-Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
-Multi systemic therapy
-Filial therapy (both the Guerney & PTUK models)
-Non-violent resistance
-Dyadic Development Psychotherapy
-Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing Therapy
The following link to the Adoption Support Fund website provides latest information on which therapies are or are not funded by the ASF. www.adoptionuk.org/Pages/FAQs/Category/… ↗
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Bids must score a minimum pass score to be awarded a place on either lot of this Framework in order to maintain a quality accredited approved provider list.
- Shortlisting
- The Council will undertake a competitive tender process to establish the Providers will have relevant Experience and robust procedures to undertake the Specialist Assessments and Therapeutic Services required under this Framework. The Council will also seek to establish the added value that Providers can deliver, in addition to the main subject matter of the contract. The award of Call off contracts will be either through direct award as a result of Family informed preference for a particular approved provider, or via mini-competition.
- “Adoption Tees Valley - Approved Specialist Assessment and Therapeutic…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Aug 2022, 12:45 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Nov 2022, 10:48 GMT
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-031361- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035eefFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: This Flexible Procurement Agreement may be re-opened to new bidders, should the Council Feel that this is appropriate and necessary to meet need. (MT Ref:227875)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://procontract.due-north.com/Login ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 16 Sept 2022, 14:30 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
16 Sept 2022 → 7 Nov 2022 · 2 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown16 Sept 2022, 14:30 BST
- Notice published7 Nov 2022, 10:48 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 12 Sept 2022- Deadline moved to 16 Sept 2022, 14:30 BST12 Sept 2022, 10:57 BST-3 days · was 19 Sept 2022, 12:00 BST
- Status changed to complete7 Nov 2022, 10:48 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.2 | 19 Sept 2022 | 16 Sept 2022 | -3 d |
Original deadline has now become a bank holiday. The revised deadline still allows in excess of 30 days in an electronic tendering process and therefore meets with requirements.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £8,000,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Specialist Assessments
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2022
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Therapeutic Services
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2022
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Specialist Assessments | 16bids · 16 electronic · 16 from abroad | 16 | — | — |
| 2 · Therapeutic Services | 20bids · 20 electronic · 20 from abroad | 20 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of Justice (or agreed alternative)Review body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
24 commercial parties on the notice- A Time 4 You Psychological Services CICFramework contractor
- ABC Counselling Play Therapy & Family Solutions CICFramework contractor
- Adoption MattersFramework contractor
- Adoption UKFramework contractor
- Arc Adoption North East LimitedFramework contractor
- Carter Brown - The Expert Service LtdFramework contractor
- Child & Adult Therapy Solutions LimitedFramework contractor
- Emma Keogh - Advancing Attachments LtdFramework contractor
- Family ActionFramework contractor
- Focus Mental HealthFramework contractor
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- Parents & Children Together (PACT)Framework contractor
- Preferred Future NVRFramework contractor
- Redcar & Cleveland Borough CouncilFramework contractor
- Studio III Clinical ServicesFramework contractor
- The Bungalow PartnershipFramework contractor
- The Child Psychology ServiceFramework contractor
- The Link (Redcar) CICFramework contractor
- Tree Tops Occupational Therapy LtdFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.