Health and social work services

Tender description

The London Borough of Sutton wish to commission a marketing. And foster care recruitment service for the recruitment of foster carers for the in-house fostering service. The aim of this contract is to increase the awareness of fostering in the borough and to recruit high quality carers for Sutton Council’s in-house fostering service. To achieve this, the contract will be made up of 2 service areas: 1) Awareness campaign — The aim is to increase the awareness in the borough of fostering for Sutton; 2) Targeted engagement and assessment — To continue to raise the profile and provide information on fostering to residents and to lead on the assessments of applicants, inline with all legislation. Lot 1: Awareness campaign, the aim is to increase the awareness in the borough of fostering for Sutton. Organisations may tender for one, two or all three lots. The highest scores from Lot 1 and Lot 2 will be added together to create a total score (100 %). Lot 3 total score will count for 100 %. However, the Council will only be appointing to Lot 1 and Lot 2 or Lot 3. The decision to appoint to Lot 1 and 2 or Lot 3, will be based on the highest score. For example, if the combined score of tenderers for Lot 1 and 2 equate to a higher than that of the highest tenderer for Lot 3, then Lot 1 and Lot 2 will be successful. If the highest tender for Lot 3 exceeds the combined highest score for Lot 1 and Lot 2, then the highest scoring tenderer for Lot 3 will be successful. Lot 2: Targeted engagement and assessment, to continue to raise the profile and provide information on fostering to residents and to lead on the assessments of applicants, inline with all legislation. Organisations may tender for one, two or all three lots. The highest scores from Lot 1 and Lot 2 will be added together to create a total score (100 %). Lot 3 total score will count for 100 %. However, the Council will only be appointing to Lot 1 and Lot 2 or Lot 3. The decision to appoint to Lot 1 and 2 or Lot 3, will be based on the highest score. For example, if the combined score of tenderers for Lot 1 and 2 equate to a higher than that of the highest tenderer for Lot 3, then Lot 1 and Lot 2 will be successful. If the highest tender for Lot 3 exceeds the combined highest score for Lot 1 and Lot 2, then the highest scoring tenderer for Lot 3 will be successful. Lot 3: Awareness campaign, the aim is to increase the awareness in the borough of fostering for Sutton and Targeted engagement and assessment, to continue to raise the profile and provide information on fostering to residents and to lead on the assessments of applicants, inline with all legislation. Organisations may tender for one, two or all three lots. The highest scores from Lot 1 and Lot 2 will be added together to create a total score (100 %). Lot 3 total score will count for 100 %. However, the Council will only be appointing to Lot 1 and Lot 2 or Lot 3. The decision to appoint to Lot 1 and 2 or Lot 3, will be based on the highest score. For example, if the combined score of tenderers for Lot 1 and 2 equate to a higher than that of the highest tenderer for Lot 3, then Lot 1 and Lot 2 will be successful. If the highest tender for Lot 3 exceeds the combined highest score for Lot 1 and Lot 2, then the highest scoring tenderer for Lot 3 will be successful.