Support with Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) Development Pilots 2025/26

Official notice

Authority: Leeds City Council - PACS (Local council)

ServicesNegotiated without publication of a contract notice

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)

Awarded value£490,000published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 20 Nov 2024

Awarded to Mott MacDonald

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The ASGSF pilots (2025/26) stem from Adoption England's strategic objective to provide adopted people and their families tailored help and support when they need it. The proposed changes will enable Regional Adoption Agencies (RAAs) to develop services that encourage prevention and early support helping to build firm foundations for good family life for all their families in the region.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1The pilots will allow the teams to recruit and retain staff and to develop…

The pilots will allow the teams to recruit and retain staff and to develop partnerships with health partners, adoption support agencies, Voluntary Adoption Agencies (VAAs) and independent providers, with the aim of improving pathways for children and young people to access support and improve the quality, availability and timeliness of the assessments, providing a better understanding of need.

The involvement of in-house teams in delivering and reviewing the delivery of interventions would help to build more comprehensive knowledge of what works and identify and resolve problems at the earliest opportunity, whilst also providing more of a mixed market in provision.

The pilots will test the viability of pan-regional commissioning, which most of the RAAs view as a direction of travel to achieve sustainability, consistency and quality of adoption support services as well as services for special guardians in specific areas.

The pilots will provide funding to enable the RAAs to develop

services and strategic commissioning on a wide geographical footprint and test the impact on outcomes and value for money. The pilots will offer an opportunity to measure the impact on the use of the fund and whether a universal service offer lowers demand for ASGSF-funded services in the long-term.

Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber

85000000 Health and social work services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Procedure method: Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
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: 22 Nov 2024, 13:12 GMT
Last source update: 22 Nov 2024, 13:12 GMT
FTS notice number: 2024/S 000-037824
Classification (CPV): Health and social work services
Delivery area: Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04be05 Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
Published justification: Mott MacDonald Ltd are the only provider to have been commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to manage the ASGSF and have done so for the past 10 years. They are therefore the only body authorised and able to administer the fund and therefore support the development and delivery of the pilots. No other provider is able to deliver this particular service as they will not have access to the ASGSF, which is a key technical component of the delivery of this pilot.
There are no suitable alternatives or substitutes and there has been no artificial narrowing down of the parameters. In light of the fact that only Mott MacDonald Ltd are authorised by the DfE to administer the ASGSF, the Council has no alternative options or choice in selecting another provider.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £490,0001 contract exc. VAT

Contracts signed 1latest 20 Nov 2024

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Mott MacDonald	£490,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 037824-2024-1 · Mott MacDonald
Signed
20 Nov 2024
Value
£490,000
Status
active

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Leeds City Council - PACS

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Civic Hall, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS1 1URContact name, email, phone

Dispute resolution & review bodies

The High Court of JusticeReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Mott MacDonald LimitedAwarded supplierGB-COH: 01243967 10 Fleet Place, London, London, EC4M 7RB

Official documents & specifications

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