2122-0282-A The provision of building based early education, childcare services to children and their parents/carers – Paradise Park Children’s Centre, N7

Tender description

This service will provide high quality, inclusive early education and childcare to children under five years old. Providers must have previous recent experience of delivering Ofsted-registered, high quality early education and childcare to meet the minimum requirements for this tender and will need to evidence this. The provider will have a sound knowledge of working within the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and contribute to the outcomes as identified within the specification. The provider will need to have a strong governance structure in place and a finance team which is able to oversee and monitor the appropriate use of a complex set of funding streams from the Council and Department for Education. The provider will understand and adhere to all safeguarding and child protection requirements as set out by the London Safeguarding Children’s Board and comply with local safeguarding processes. The provider will work closely with a variety of council officers, health and voluntary sector partners in order to deliver the service, including (for example), Bright Start early childhood multi-agency teams, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) team, safeguarding and finance officers, and the Family Information Service (FIS). Multi-disciplinary working is essential for delivering outcomes for children and their families Lot 1: As the value of the contract is above the threshold for wider advertising of the opportunity, a contract notice will be published on Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder. This procurement will be conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 under Chapter 3 Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services (known as the “light touch” regime). Under Regulation 76 the council is free to establish a procedure, provided the procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service providers). The procedure the Council has designed is based on the open procedure but with the option for an element of negotiation (if required). All economic operators (service providers) who successfully express an interest will automatically have access to the tender documents. Standard pre-selection questions will be part of the tender response and will need to be passed before the evaluation of quality and cost. Further details will be available in the procurement documents. The council reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the evaluation of initial tenders without negotiation where this offers value for money. The council reserves the right to not award the contract if the received tenders do not offer value for money.