Published Date: 9 November 2020
Tender Status: planned
Tender Opening Date: 5 January 2021
Tender Closing Date: n/a
Award Date: n/a
Contract Start Date: n/a
Contract End Date: n/a
Contract is suitable for SMEs: Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs: Yes
Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) Contract Type:
The government is committed to creating more high quality, affordable and flexible childcare, including before and after school and during the school hol-idays.
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. We are also exploring ways to enhance the availability of affordable childcare before and after school (wraparound childcare), and to support local authorities to enable them to meet their childcare sufficiency duties for school age children.
This notice seeks interest from organisations that could provide a national support service to local authorities.
Please note, the precise value and details of this service are yet to be determined, and any funding invested by the Department in this area is subject to the Spending Review.
The Department intends to run a procurement for support, advisory and performance monitoring services to assist local authorities with ensuring holiday and wraparound provision for school-age children across England. This prior information notice relates to these support, advisory and monitoring services only.
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 au-thorities.
4. Helping local authorities to create and implement a local communica-tion plan to target parents and hardest to reach communities.
5. Setting up a system of peer-to-peer support amongst local authorities.
6. This may also include supporting schools with the implementation of breakfast clubs including how to set up an effective breakfast club for different types of schools, how to source breakfast food items and help schools engage with suppliers, and ensuring breakfast meals comply with the School Food Standards.
We are open to suppliers who are interested in covering both a) the holiday and wraparound childcare support and b) the breakfast clubs support contracts - or one individual contract.
We are interested in understanding potential supplier views on how to provide these services either on a national level or on a regional lot basis.
The Department has made available the following questionnaire for interested suppliers to complete:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=yXfS-grGoU2187O4s0qC-eaNsAtv445KrwPCU9rSoMpUNzZUUk1CNjRLS1JBMU5ZUFlVME9UUUtVTS4u
Contact name: Department for Education
Address: Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England
Telephone: n/a
Fax: n/a
Email: [email protected]
Price Range: £1,000,000 - £2,000,000
