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Published 20 Feb 2024, 07:51 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Sensory Inclusive School Environments Pilot

Official notice

Authority: South Tyneside Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£125,000≈ £115k / year
Submissions closed 22 Mar 2024awarded 21 May 2024
Awarded to Tree Tops Occupational Therapy Ltd
Contract term 1 yr 1 moends 31 Aug 2025 · starts 1 Aug 2024

What is being bought

Published requirement description

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our Local Offer for children and young people with SEND and our current involvement with the Delivering Better Value Programme, we are seeking an experienced external specialist organisation in sensory processing and integration therapy to deliver our Sensory Inclusive Environments Pilot. This pilot will consist of:

  • Supporting the development of setting wide policy guidance for schools/settings
  • Developing resources for schools/settings
  • Delivering face to face and recorded training for professionals
  • Supporting schools/settings in assessing their environments with a view to making them more sensory inclusive
  • Completing assessment of children and young people with complex sensory processing needs that may require specific techniques and strategies to support them.

We will ask the successful organisation to work closely with our Access & Inclusion Service and our schools/settings to deliver the above, providing written reports for settings and an evaluation at the at the end of the pilot period with recommendations for how to implement learning across all schools/settings.

CPV: Education and training services · Social work and related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1This is a 13 month contract commencing 1 August 2024 expiring 31 August 2025 1 yr 1 moPublished value£125,000

This is a 13 month contract commencing 1 August 2024 expiring 31 August 2025.

The contract sum has been set at £125k for the period of the contract.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2024 – 31 Aug 2025 (1 yr 1 mo)
Delivery: North East · Borough of South Tyneside

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored

Whist the Price is fixed, 40% of the weighting will be associated to the level of service deliverable within the fixed contract price. 60% of the weighting will be weighted on Quality, 10% of which will be apportioned to delivery of social value. The Quality criteria is as stated in the procurement documents.

Shortlisting
Selection criteria is as stated in the procurement documents.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
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
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
20 Feb 2024, 07:51 GMT
Last source update
21 May 2024, 08:25 BST
Authority reference
S8601
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-015929
Classification (CPV)
Education and training servicesSocial work and related services
Delivery area
North East (UKC22)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-043b53 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

The review body is South Tyneside Council, Town Hall and Civic Offices, Westoe Road, South Shields, NE33 2RL.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Submission deadline
22 Mar 2024, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

22 Mar 2024 → 1 Aug 2024 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    22 Mar 2024, 12:00 GMT
  2. Notice published
    21 May 2024, 08:25 BST
  3. Contract starts
    1 Aug 2024, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    21 May 2024, 08:25 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £125,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 21 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 21 May 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Tree Tops Occupational Therapy LtdSME£125,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

South Tyneside Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Town Hall,Westoe Road, SOUTH SHIELDS, North East, NE332RLContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.