HCC 1015 Provision of Lead Agency Services for the Hertsmere East Group of Children's Centres plus Development and Testing of Integrated Service Delivery Models

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Hertfordshire County Council is currently out to procurement for the provision of Lead Agency Services for the Hertsmere East Group of Children's Centres plus Development and Testing of Integrated Service Delivery Models. The Lead Agency for the Hertsmere East group of children’s centres will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the children’s centre core purpose. The core purpose of children’s centres as defined by the Department for Education (DfE) is ‘to improve outcomes for young children and their families and reduce inequalities between families in greatest need and their peers in child development and school readiness; parenting aspirations, self-esteem and parenting skills; and child and family health and life chances’. In addition the lead agency will develop and test models of working with health service providers (specifically the health Visiting service) in order to inform any future development of an integrated commissioning and delivery model for services for children aged 0-5 and their families. This procurement is an Open (one stage process). Suppliers wishing to take part in this project are invited to “express interest” which will give access to the full procurement documents in the e-tendering system. To be considered as a Bidder you must complete and submit a Bid by the deadline of 12.00 Noon on Monday 23rd November 2015. Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via correspondence on the website, in accordance with the procurement documents and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above. Please allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted by the system. Please be aware that TUPE applies to this tender. The TUPE information will be available once you have opted in to the tender opportunity via In-Tend, opting in means you are undertaking to keep the TUPE information confidential as per paragraph 4.4 of the Instructions to Tenderers. all Tenderers, including the incumbent contractor(s) must download the TUPE information for the applicable Lots to ensure that all Tenderers are provided with the same information in order to construct their tender. Failure to follow the instructions above will result in the Tenderers tender being deemed non-compliant and therefore disqualified from the procurement process.