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Published 30 Sept 2022, 11:50 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Local Authority Childcare Sufficiency Support Contract

Official notice

Authority: Department for Education (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesOpen procedure
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: UK
Published estimate£825,000≈ £707k / year
Submissions closed 2 Dec 2022awarded 7 Mar 2023
Awarded to Hempsall Consultancies Ltd2 awards
Contract term 1 yr 2 moends 31 Mar 2024 · starts 25 Jan 2023

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This contract is for the provision of expert professional services (including peer support) to support local authorities (LAs) in fulfilling their statutory sufficiency duties. The support will be delivered in the Financial Years 2022-25 and will relate to supporting the delivery of sufficient childcare and early education places across local areas to meet parental demand for the early years entitlements and to ensure that there are sufficient places for children aged 0-14 (or up to 18 for disabled children) to enable parents to work or participate in education or training for employment.

The contractor will offer support to LAs in restoring or improving childcare sufficiency in their local areas through a mixed package of tailored support to diagnose sufficiency issues and assist LAs in implementing and embedding sustainable improvements. This will be delivered by:

  1. Providing reactive support and challenge to LAs identified as failing (or at imminent risk of failing) in their duty to secure sufficient childcare for parents to work or participate in education or training, and for children eligible for the early education entitlements.
  2. Providing proactive preventative and improvement support and challenge to LAs to facilitate the maintenance or improvement of local childcare sufficiency.
  3. Where appropriate, administering discrete projeejct funding to support LAs to implement recommendations made during the reactive or proactive support activity at 1 and 2 above where available finances are evidencable as a barrier to achieving the desired outcome.
  4. Providing an overarching project management function to enable 1, 2 and 3 above. This will include organisation of contract management activity including reporting and engaging with DfE, and evaluating support activity and funding outcomes.

CPV: Education and training services · Pre-school education services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Local Authority Childcare Sufficiency Support ContractAwarded 1 yr 2 moPublished value£825,000

The Supplier shall deliver a comprehensive and coherent package of delivery support (including challenge, where necessary) to LAs in fulfilling their sufficiency duties and to ensure that there is enough childcare across local areas to enable all young children to access high-quality early years provision, to meet the demand for childcare from parents of school-aged children (see Schedule 2 (Specification) for a full definition of LA sufficiency duties), and to deliver the expanded early years entitlements from April 2024. This will include peer support where appropriate and regional or national events by the Supplier to facilitate the sharing of expertise and best practice between LAs.

To achieve this, the Supplier will:

A. Provide reactive advice, support and challenge to LAs identified as failing (or at imminent risk of failing) in their duty to secure sufficient childcare for working parents and children eligible for the early education entitlements, or LAs identified as needing support in their planning to deliver the expanded early years entitlements.

B. Provide events, materials, advice, support and challenge to LAs to facilitate the maintenance, planning for or improvement of local childcare sufficiency, including the expanded early years entitlements (for the entitlements or for other childcare where this directly supports parents to work or participate in education or training).

C. Where appropriate, provide additional financial support to LAs to implement recommendations made during support activity, where available finances are evidencable as a barrier to achieving the desired outcome and where this activity forms part of a support package agreed before 6th November 2023.

D. Provide an overarching project management function to enable and report on the 3 elements above.

Contract period: 25 Jan 2023 – 31 Mar 2024 (1 yr 2 mo)
Delivery: UK
Variant bids: not allowed
80000000 Education and training services

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
  • Price

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
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
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
30 Sept 2022, 11:50 BST
Last source update
6 Nov 2023, 12:20 GMT
Award evaluation window
2 Dec 2022 – …
Authority reference
con_19123
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-032765
Classification (CPV)
Education and training servicesPre-school education services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0371b6 Find a Tender

Publisher note: This Open procurement in accordance with Regulation 27 of PCR 2015 will be conducted electronically via Jaggaer e-tendering portal. No hard copy documents will be issued; all communications with DfE will be carried out via the portal. Bidders will be required to register on Jaggaer portal: https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html For any assistance with the portal, bidders should contact the Jaggaer helpdesk: help_UK@jaggaer.com Please note that this PIN is not a call to competition and the DfE is not bound to enter into any procurement activity because of it. With procurement being dependant on ministerial priorities, funding for these Services is subject to change at DfE’s absolute discretion.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Jaggaer · Who buys & how to bid on JAGGAER
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free; latest Chrome/Edge/Firefox only — corporate browsers fail
Submission deadline
2 Dec 2022, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
120 days from the deadline
Bids opened
2 Dec 2022, 12:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗

Timeline

31 Oct 2022 → 6 Nov 2023 · 5 dates
  1. Next notice expected
    31 Oct 2022
  2. Submission deadline
    2 Dec 2022, 12:00 GMT
  3. Bids opened
    2 Dec 2022, 12:00 GMT
  4. Contract starts
    25 Jan 2023
  5. Notice published
    6 Nov 2023, 12:20 GMT

Notice history

5 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Nov 2022
  1. Status changed to active
    2 Nov 2022, 09:25 GMT
  2. Procurement method changed
    2 Nov 2022, 09:25 GMT
  3. Deadline published: 2 Dec 2022, 12:00 GMT
    2 Nov 2022, 09:25 GMT
  4. Status changed to complete
    7 Mar 2023, 14:36 GMT
  5. Buyer details updated
    6 Nov 2023, 12:20 GMT
Routine re-releases (4)
  • 2022-09: 1 release · 30 Sept 2022

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £825,0001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Bids received 3
Contracts signed 2latest 7 Mar 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Hempsall Consultancies LtdSME£825,000 †same award published again · counted once—Awarded
Hempsall Consultancies LtdSME£825,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Local Authority Childcare Sufficiency Support Contract · Hempsall Consultancies LtdSME

    Signed
    7 Mar 2023
    Value
    £825,000
    Period
    … – 31 Mar 2024
    Status
    active
    • Change This contract commenced in February 2023 and supports local authorities (LAs) at risk of not meeting their existing childcare sufficiency duty. Because this contract commenced before the expansion of the EY entitlements announced at Spring Budget 2023, the EY childcare expansion has been out of scope. This variation brings this expansion into scope for support from the supplier, to meet the needs of the sector and to better enable them to prepare for the childcare expansion., Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: It is not possible to change contractor on the short timescales involved - this contract is being modified in the short term. It will also end early, due to announcements made at the Spring Budget 2023. A procurement is underway for a replacement contract.

  • Local Authority Childcare Sufficiency Support Contract · Hempsall Consultancies LtdSME

    Signed
    18 Jan 2023
    Value
    £825,000
    Period
    … – 31 Mar 2024
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
3bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Department for Education

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsEducation Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street, London, UK, SW1P 3BTContact email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • National Audit OfficeReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

2 commercial parties on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.