Provision of Targeted Family Support Services to young children through Childrens' Centres July 23-Mar24

CPV: Education and training services · Health and social work services

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

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

9 May 2023, 14:58 BST

Last source update

9 May 2023, 14:58 BST

Authority reference

DN651357

FTS notice number

2023/S 000-013147

Classification (CPV)

Education and training servicesHealth and social work services

Delivery area

South West (UKK13)

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Published justification

The proposed modification (extension) to the current contracts (and associated cost implications) is necessary as a result of an unexpected delay to the Council's re-procurement of a new contractor for the delivery of Children Centre Services. The Children Centre Services are vital to the community which they serve. It is therefore necessary to procure additional services from the incumbent contractors to ensure that services continue to be available to the community until the re-procurement is concluded.

It is not economically or technically feasible for another contractor to be engaged by the Council to deliver the Children Centre Services due to the short length of the proposed extensions (July 2023 – March 2024). Engaging a replacement contractor would require additional mobilisation time, cost and resource (including the upskilling of the new contractor (and its staff)) which would be disproportionate to the short extension period. Engaging a new contractor would also impact on and unnecessarily disrupt currently supported vulnerable families utilising the Children Centre Services.

Even where those difficulties and impacts could be overcome (which, with a minimum 3 month mobilisation, the Council considers not to be possible), engaging a new contractor for the extension period would inevitably result in significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs for the Council. In particular, the:

• costs of running a procurement process for the extension period when a further re-procurement for the Children Centre Services would likely begin shortly thereafter;
• the additional cost of a short-term service provision;
• cost of mobilising and contract managing the change to a new contractor (if the incumbents were not successful) to incur the same costs for a further re-procurement of the services commencing 1 April 2024;

the need to monitor the activity of multiple contractors and the interface between them to meet vulnerable family demands during the extension period

Total contract value before the modifications

Value excluding VAT: £23,291,763

Total contract value after the modifications

Value excluding VAT: £26,100,867

This value includes an inflation uplift for 2023/2024.

• Aspire Foundation (Gardners Lane and Oakwood Federation)Awarded supplier Gardners Lane Childrens Centre, Gardners Lane, Cheltenham, South West, GL51 9JW
• BarnadosAwarded supplier Tanners Lane, Ilford, UK, IG6 1QG

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