Health and social work services

Tender description

The London Borough of Bromley invites tenders from contractors with detailed knowledge and experience of providing Recruitment Services for Foster Carers as detailed in the Tender Documentation and Service Specification. It is proposed that the procurement process is carried out through a negotiated light tough regime, with a contract term of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The estimated contract value over the whole 5 year period is 1 000 000 GBP. The tender opportunity will be run electronically through the London Tenders Portal and suppliers will need to register their company with the portal at www.londontenders.org to ensure they are able to submit the relevant documents. All applications MUST be made through the London Tenders Portal ONLY and NOT to the Contact Details contained within this notice. The provider will: Provide a recruitment and advertising strategy, process initial carer enquiries, conduct an initial ‘Skills to Foster’ course, undertake all elements of the assessment of prospective carers, complete the formal written record and present the prospective carers to the Bromley Fostering Panel for consideration. Provide professional supervision to the assessors and a robust quality assurance package. To ensure compliance with the standards required for our fostering panel, all reports will be required to be quality assured and assessed at an appropriate level of quality prior to being presented to our fostering panel. Ensure that a proportion of fostering units recruited are prepared to take on specific types of placements where Bromley has specific shortages (male or sibling placements, adolescents) and a proportion of these foster carers will be of a Black and Minority Ethnic background, a measure required due to a shortage of carers from this demographic.