Probation Services Dynamic Framework (PSDF) - Additional Day 1 Services

CPV: Accommodation management services · Addiction treatment · Administrative social services · Adult and other education services · Benefit services · Community action programme · Education and training services · General public services · Guidance and counselling services · Health and social work services · Job search services · Justice services · +12 more

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded without competition

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

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Unspecified in notice

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

3 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST

Last source update

3 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST

Authority reference

2021/S 075-193253

FTS notice number

2021/S 000-012509

Classification (CPV)

Accommodation management servicesAddiction treatmentAdministrative social servicesAdult and other education servicesBenefit servicesCommunity action programmeEducation and training servicesGeneral public servicesGuidance and counselling servicesHealth and social work services

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Job search servicesJustice services

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to restricted procedure

Published justification

The Authority considers the award of the contracts without prior publication of a contract notice is permitted by Regulation 32(2)(a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 on the basis that no and/or no compliant tenders were received in the [17 call-off competitions run under the DF. No bids were received in the following call-off competitions: seven Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) areas for Personal Wellbeing (PWB) contracts; seven for Women’s Services contracts; and two PCC areas for Young Adults in Wales. No compliant tenders were received for one call-off competition for a Women’s Services contract.

Section VI.3 of the Contract Notice for the DF published on 15 June 2020 (see IV.2.1) gave notice that the Authority could directly award a call-off contract pursuant to Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 where there is a call-off competition failure.

Accordingly, after due consideration, the Authority has decided to make direct awards in each of these areas pursuant to Regulation 32(2)(a) on grounds of competition failure.

Further, the Authority relies on Regulation 32(2)(c). The Authority undertook extensive market engagement in the design of the DF and engaged with tenderers answering clarification questions after the call-off competitions were launched. Suppliers had indicated via the Dynamic Framework that they would be willing to deliver services in the PCC areas with failed bids. There was no indication that one or more competitions would fail and such failures therefore constitute unforeseeable events. These failures have brought about conditions of extreme urgency as there was insufficient time to comply with the relevant time limits to re-run these competitions and to enable successful tenderers to mobilise in time for service commencement on 26 June 2021, by reason whereof, direct awards are necessary.

The Authority approached potential providers pursuant to a transparent methodology and following further assessment and dialogue made its selection accordingly.

Publisher note: The majority of the services within scope of the DF are listed within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and so, pursuant to Regulation 74 of the PCR are subject to the ‘Light Touch Regime’ or 'LTR' under which the Authority is not obliged to comply with the full requirements of the PCR. The DF is described as a framework agreement, but has features of a dynamic purchasing system; it is not subject to either Regulation 33 or 34 of the PCR, and Regulation 28 does not apply to this procurement. This is irrespective of the use of this standard form notice (the Authority is unable to use the LTR notice for technical compatibility reasons). The Authority will comply with its equal treatment, transparency, non-discrimination and proportionality obligations throughout the procurement.

17 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.

• Advance CharityFramework contractor London, UK
• Catch22 Charity LimitedFramework contractor London, UK
• Changing LivesFramework contractor Gateshead, UK
• Ingeus UK LimitedFramework contractor4320553 London, UK
• PSS UKFramework contractor Liverpool, UK
• St Giles Wise Group PartnershipFramework contractor London, UK
• The Growth Company LtdFramework contractor2443911 Manchester, UK
• The Nelson TrustFramework contractor Brimscombe, Stroud, UK
• Women’s Community MattersFramework contractor Barrow-in-Furness, UK

No document links were published on the notice.