Guidance and counselling services

Tender description

Overview: Dacorum Borough Council is carrying our pre-procurement market engagement for a Promoting Healthy Relationships service. More specifically the service should provide both mediation and counselling to ensure a holistic approach to resolving relationship issues. For the purpose of this service, the term relationship refers to any connection between 2 or more people. The service should focus on the following key areas: — Personal and family relationship difficulties; — Neighbour disputes; — Wider community disputes; — Workplace conflict. The annual budget for this service will be approximately 83 000 GBP with an overall approximate contract value of 249 000 GBP (for 3 years). Time Scales: Dacorum Borough Council is seeking to commence the procurement process in April 2016, with the new service to be implemented December 2016. It is proposed that the Council will run a 1 stage procurement process. The anticipated contract term is a 3 year core contract, with the possibility of a further extension of up to 24 months. The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) will not apply. Pre-Procurement Market Engagement: The purpose of the Council's pre-procurement market engagement process is to allow and enable potentially interested organisations with appropriate expertise and relevant experience to: — Outline and comment on the initial desired outcome and use of an outcome based commissioning model; — Gather further information on the Councils current intentions / challenges; — Offer insight into current developments in the market; — Explain additional opportunities to be explored for the proposed service. Dacorum Borough Council will consider all feedback provided to help inform further decision making. This stage of the project is not part of the formal procurement process and therefore is not confirmation of the Councils commitment to carrying out such a process. Participation or non-participation in the pre-procurement market engagement process will not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the pre-procurement process shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in the pre-procurement market engagement procurement process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by the Council. If your organisation would like to respond to this process, you will have to submit your response document via the Supply Hertfordshire portal by the return date: 12:00 on Monday, 24.2.2016. Dacorum Borough Council will not enter into a contract based solely on the responses to this PIN and no information contained in the documents or in any communication made between Dacorum Borough Council and any contractor in connection with its pre-procurement market engagement shall be relied upon as constituting a contract, agreement or representation that any contract shall be awarded.