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Children's Centres VEAT Notice

Health and social work services
South East (UKJ4)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Kent County Council: "Children's Centres VEAT Notice". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityKent County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for Kent County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
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Competition Density
8.9Bids / Report
21.3% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
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Payment Terms
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Coverage: 94 active published awards; 80 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityKent County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published15 Dec 2023, 15:02 GMT
Last source update15 Dec 2023, 15:02 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth and social work services
Delivery area
South East (UKJ4)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04261f
What is being bought
Kent County Council is seeking to directly award two contracts for provision of family hubs in Margate, Thanet and Sheerness, Sheppey in the county of Kent. The Family Hub concept is to provide families with a single access point to integrated family support services. Services will include those that we recognise in Kent as Early Help, linking across Children, Young People and Education, Public Health and the NHS with emphasis on being a one stop shop for help and support for families with social, emotional, physical and financial needs.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    15 Dec 2023, 15:02 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    15 Dec 2023, 15:02 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    15 Dec 2023, 15:02 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    The procurement process will be a negotiated procedure without a call for competition. There is a need to award contracts in these areas for 18 months, with an optional break clause after 12 months whilst the wider scoping is undertaken of Family Hub services in Kent and this opportunity will then be competitively tendered.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    15 Dec 2023, 15:02 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  4. Contract active
    Signed 15 Dec 2023, 00:00 GMT · £349,840
  5. Contract active
    Signed 15 Dec 2023, 00:00 GMT · £321,775
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Millmead Children's Centre Partnership Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Children and Families Ltd CIC
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£349,840 · signed 15 Dec 2023, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract
£321,775 · signed 15 Dec 2023, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Kent County Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-1163
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  • Kent County Council
    buyer

    County Hall, Maidstone, UKJ4, ME14 1XQ
    jamie.brooks@kent.gov.uk

  • Children and Families Ltd CIC
    supplier

    Seashells Sheerness Children& Families Centre, Rose St, Sheerness, UKJ4, ME12 1AW

  • Kent County Council
    reviewBody

    Sessions House, Maidstone, ME14 1XQ

  • Millmead Children's Centre Partnership Limited
    supplier

    Dane Valley Rd, Margate, UKJ4, CT9 3RU
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleKent County Council is seeking to directly award two contracts to Millmead Children’s Centre Partnership Ltd and Children and Families Ltd CIC. This is based on regulation 32 (2) (b) (ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. (2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:— (b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:— (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons, Specifically, that there is a need to secure the delivery of Family Hub services in these areas because The Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) are in two of the most deprived areas in Kent and nationally. Deprivation data from 2019 shows that one of the LSOA’s within Sheerness, is 48th most deprived LSOA nationally (out of a total of 32,844 LSOA’s nationally) making it within the top 0.2 % of most deprived LSOA’s in the country. Similarly, one of the LSOA’s within the Dane Valley Ward is the 8th most deprived within Kent (423rd nationally) and nationally sitting within the top 1.3% of most deprived LSOA’s. The location of the two commissioned sites as highlighted above are in areas of high deprivation and as such have a high level of need for support services. It is believed that there is currently no other available provision that could be in place prior to the contracts ending in March 2024 to support this need in these deprived areas. Continuing to pilot the Family Hub model in these areas, while the model is finalised is critical to ensuring that the deprivation is not compounded and that the Council is able to gain further insights to aid the development of the model.