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title: "The Advocacy 'Safety Net' Service ITT"
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# The Advocacy 'Safety Net' Service ITT

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-advocacy-safety-net-service-itt-ocds-h6vhtk-03ab84). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Education: "The Advocacy 'Safety Net' Service ITT". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 23 Mar 2023, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: education.app.jaggaer.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Education](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-education-gov-d6)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 23 March 2023 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Helpdesk and support services, Technical support services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03ab84`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-advocacy-safety-net-service-itt-ocds-h6vhtk-03ab84#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [education.app.jaggaer.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.app.jaggaer.com%2Fweb%2Flogin.html)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-advocacy-safety-net-service-itt-ocds-h6vhtk-03ab84#participate

## Description
It is the Department for Educations intention to undertake a procurement exercise to appoint a suitably experienced organisation to deliver on behalf of the department a 2 year and 0 month contract from 1st October 2023 to 30th September 2025 to deliver an Advocacy ‘Safety Net’ Helpline Service offering advice to looked after children and care leavers.
The National Advocacy Helpline and "safety net' service will offer advice to looked after children and care leavers. The services are intended to signpost looked after children to local advocacy support or help those who have been denied local advocacy to make representations and pursue complaints. The service will be active in referring cases back to local authorities and progressing these until satisfaction.
The service will continue to encourage local authorities to provide advocacy services in line with their statutory responsibilities, only stepping in where this proves unsuccessful. It is expected the improved national advocacy 'safety net' will also improve insight and analysis about callers to the service and the issues they raise and will gather evidence about the quality and coverage of local advocacy services. The service will use clear approaches for prioritising limited resources and engage looked after children who might otherwise be difficult to reach.
To view the tender, you will need to be registered as a supplier on the DfE Jaggaer eTendering portal, available at https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
The closing date for submitting your tender is 12:00 noon GMT on the 23rd March 2023.
Once registered the Tender will be accessible via the ‘View Opportunities’ link on the Homepage. Select the Opportunity Notice for ‘Advocacy Helpline and 'Safety Net' Service ITT’ (ITT 2083) and this will take you directly to the tender documents.
Please use the Jaggaer e-procurement system https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html to submit any questions you may have about the tendering procedure.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 72253000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Scope of the service
The advocacy helpline and 'safety net' service will address the following objectives: 
a)	To provide a national (England) advocacy advice helpline and website to signpost children to local advocacy. 
b)	To provide direct advocacy...
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2023 to 30/09/2025
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F007630-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-03-16T09:38:00.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T18:13:08.687Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03ab84