Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department For Education · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Mutual Ventures SME
- Value
- £972,020.15
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Design and execution of research and development (CPV 73300000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 022186-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Jul 2023
- Published31 Jul 2023Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
This is a notice for the Award of Contract: Delivery Partner of Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme. The Independent Care Review and National Panel review made a number of ambitious recommendations to transform support and protection in children’s social care (CSC). In response to these recommendations DfE has published its implementation strategy, which sets out its proposed reforms in this area of CSC: a. A new category of support – family help – to replace the current framework across voluntary targeted early help services to statutory child in need services. b. Restructuring the workforce so a multidisciplinary team of family help workers can own relationships with families in need under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 (this means that a wider range of professionals can lead, rather than always being qualified social workers, as is the current set up). c. More effective, integrated multi-agency child protection response, including dedicated, highly skilled profess…
About the supplier
Mutual Ventures: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07490364).