NEPO602 - Interim Education, Health and Social Care

Newcastle City Council (''the Lead Authority'') is acting as the lead authority on behalf of the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO) and its Member Authorities, in respect of the procurement of a bespoke flexible procurement solution (FPS) known as an Open Framework Agreement (the Contract) for:

A) Pre-16 Placements in Department for Education (DfE) registered independent special Schools and Colleges for Children and Young People 0 - 25 years; day, weekly-boarder, termly boarder and 52-week residential placements.

B) Post-16 Placements in Department for Education (DfE) registered independent special Schools and Colleges for Children and Young People 0 - 25 years; day, weekly-boarder, termly boarder and 52-week residential placements;

C) Placements in Residential Children's Homes for Children and Young People aged 0 - 18 years,

D) Placements in Ofsted Registered Residential Short Break Services for Children and Young People 0 - 18years

Placements in residential children's Homes for Children and Young People 0 - 18 years. The Child / Young Person is the subject of a Care Order (section 31 of the Children 1989) and in which case the Local Authority will have parental responsibility or the Local Authority is satisfied that the Child/Young Person is in need of accommodation under (section 20 of the Children Act 1989), in which case the Local Authority will not have parental responsibility for the Child / Young Person.

The Child/Young Person may need education provision as part of the placement.

An unlimited number of Homes will be appointed to the solution from within the following Local Authority/County boundaries:

1. Darlington

2. Durham

3. Gateshead

4. Hartlepool

5. Middlesbrough

6. Newcastle City Council

7. North Tyneside

8. Northumberland

9. Redcar and Cleveland

10. South Tyneside

11. Stockton

12. Sunderland

13. Cumbria

14. Dumfries and Galloway

15. East Lothian

16. Humberside

17. Lancashire

18. Midlothian (including City of Edinburgh Unitary Authority)

19. North Yorkshire

20. West Yorkshire

21. Scottish Borders

22. South Lanarkshire

23. South Yorkshire

24. York

The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTender system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this Flexible Procurement Agreement must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTender system. If not already registered, tenderers should register on the NEPO eTender system at https://procontract.due-north.com/register?openform. Tenders must be submitted using the link above. Tenders submitted via postal or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your Tender please contact the System Support Team on 0330 0050352. For non-time critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information etc. please contact Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com) and select ProContractV3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively, you can [email protected] this will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk. Successful suppliers will enter into a Flexible Procurement Agreement in a form which is set out in the procurement documents. The lead authority does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of the goods/works/services (if any) which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any participating organisation using the Flexible Procurement Agreement pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof. Additional information: Please go to our web site located at www.nepo.org to register and download the documents.