Children's Residential Placements - Consortia Commissioning

Southampton City Council has taken the lead for the purposes of tendering this opportunity. This procurement is a tender for a Children's Residential Care Services Framework- Consortium Commissioning.

Local authorities across the Southern Region of England have come together to commission children's residential care using a framework agreement, in order to fulfil their statutory duty to provide high-quality residential care to looked after children within their authority. Commissioning as a consortium of authorities allows us to meaningfully engage with the market whilst enabling us to achieve efficiencies in the purchasing and development of services and advocating better care on behalf of children and young people.

Lot 1 - Planned Residential Care and Same Day Residential Care

Lot 2 - Crisis Care

Lot 3 - Residential Care with DFE Regulated Education

Lot 4 - Residential Parenting Assessments

Lot 5 - Therapeutic Residential Care

Lot 6 - Children with Disabilities

Additional information: The framework duration has optional extensions of two periods of 2 years, making a potential total contract duration of 8 years.

The authorities included in the consortium are:

• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council

• Bracknell Forest Council

• Brighton and Hove City Council

• Bristol City Council

• East Sussex County Council

• Hampshire County Council

• Isle of Wight Council

• London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames Council

• Medway Council

• Milton Keynes Council

• Oxfordshire County Council

• Portsmouth City Council

• Reading Borough Council

• Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames Council

• Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Council

• Slough Children's Trust

• Southampton City Council

• Surrey County Council

• West Berkshire County Council

• West Sussex County Council

• Wokingham Borough Council

The range value of the framework is an estimate only, as this is a Framework Agreement and spend cannot be guaranteed, a more accurate indication of values will only be available either retrospectively or when Block Contracts are awarded. The option for other Local Authorities to join the consortium is available. The framework will remain open for new or improved applications to join, but the evaluation of the bids after the framework commencement date will be quarterly. Further details are included in the tender documents.

Tender Documents

• Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder → — Tender notice
• Tender Portal → — Tender notice
• Tender Portal Guidance → — Tender notice