All Wales Framework for the Provision of Foster Care Services 2021

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All Wales Framework for the Provision of Foster Care Services.This is a collaborative procurement. Rhondda-Cynon-Taff CBC is the lead Authority and for the purposes of this procurement is acting as the Central Purchasing Body in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The Council is therefore acting on behalf of the Welsh Local Authorities for procuring the Framework Agreement for the provision of Foster Care Services to Children and Young People.For the avoidance of doubt the Welsh Local Authorities are:Blaenau Gwent County Borough CouncilBridgend County Borough CouncilCaerphilly County Borough CouncilCardiff CouncilCarmarthenshire County CouncilCeredigion County CouncilConwy County Borough CouncilDenbighshire County CouncilFlintshire County CouncilGwynedd CouncilIsle of Anglesey County CouncilMerthyr Tydfil County Borough CouncilMonmouthshire County CouncilNeath Port Talbot County Borough CouncilNewport City CouncilPembrokeshire County CouncilPowys County CouncilRhondda Cynon Taf County Borough CouncilCity and County of SwanseaTorfaen County Borough CouncilVale of Glamorgan CouncilWrexham County Borough CouncilThe duration of the Framework shall be 4 years with further option to extend for up to an additional 2+2 years.The value of the proposed Framework Agreement has been calculated with reference to the historical spend of all of those named local authorities. It should be noted that it is up to each of the named individual local authorities to decide if and at what stage they may choose to place reliance on the proposed Framework Agreement and to this end the Council, as lead authority in this procurement, offers no guarantee of volume or value in respect of any future expenditure and further that the number of local authorities who decide to place reliance upon the proposed Framework Agreement may vary during the term of the same.The services which are the subject of this procurement fall within Schedule 3 to the public Contracts Regulations 2015 and accordingly the so called “Light Touch Regime”, as set out in Regulations 74-77 of the 2015 Regulations. Under these regulations RCT is not required to procure these services in line with the full extent of the Regulations and is able to determine itself the procurement process subject to ensuring compliance with the principals of transparency and equal treatment of providers.