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Published 22 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Supporting the Local Delivery of Flexible Childcare

Official notice

Authority: Department for Education (Central government)

ServicesOpen procedure
Sectors: Administration, defence and social security services (75) Delivery: UK
Awarded value£1,570,001published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 23 Mar 2021
Awarded to Mott MacDonald

What is being bought

Published requirement description

In the 2018 Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents, parents report that the most helpful changes to local childcare provision to make it better suited to their needs would be affordable childcare (26%) and more childcare available during the school holidays (19%) – with summer holidays reported as the main time of year that improvements could be made.

The same survey also found that 15% of parents thought childcare which operated for longer hours would make provision better suited to their needs; with almost a fifth of parents (18%) wanting to use more after school club provision.

CPV: Administrative educational services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The government is committed to creating more high quality, affordable and flexible…Awarded

The government is committed to creating more high quality, affordable and flexible childcare, including before and after school and during the school holidays.

Our Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) will provide free childcare, structured activities and food for those on free school meals (FSM), during the Easter, Christmas and summer holidays.

This contract is for support, advisory and performance monitoring services to assist local authorities with ensuring holiday provision for school-age children across England.

This will include (but is not limited to) –

  1. Supporting local authorities with the tools and practical guidance on rapidly mapping the current sufficiency of school-age childcare within their region.
  2. Providing practical planning and delivery advice to support local authorities in increasing the sufficiency of school-age childcare in their region. This may include identifying potential gaps in provision, supporting the creation of new childcare places, enhancing existing offers and making best use of partnership arrangements with local bodies, schools and other relevant organisations.
  3. Regular reporting to DfE against the contract and progress in local authorities.
  4. Helping local authorities to create and implement a local communication plan to target parents and hardest to reach communities.
  5. Setting up a system of peer-to-peer support amongst local authorities.
Delivery: UK
Extensions: TBC

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
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST
Last source update
22 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-008682
Classification (CPV)
Administrative educational services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
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Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £1,570,0011 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 6
Contracts signed 1latest 23 Mar 2021
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Mott MacDonaldCONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF A NATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO DELIVER THE 2021 HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES AND FOOD (HAF) PROGRAMME£1,570,001 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF A NATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO DELIVER THE 2021 HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES AND FOOD (HAF) PROGRAMME · Mott MacDonald

    Signed
    23 Mar 2021
    Value
    £1,570,001
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
6bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Department for Education

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsChildcare Provision - support Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street, London, UK, SW1P 3BTContact email

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.