Domestic Abuse Community Outreach Support

RMBC is seeking to procure a dynamic, proactive Domestic Abuse support, safety planning and advocacy service. The Service will deliver all aspects of a Domestic Abuse support service from the provision of advice and guidance, joint communications and campaigns, an accessible pathway into services, safety planning, ongoing support, and therapeutic services for all those affected by domestic abuse. The Service will give particular focus to women and families, men, mental health, housing, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Communities and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Queer/Sometimes Questioning (LGBTQ).

This service is being commissioned to assist the Council to fulfil its statutory duties towards victims of domestic abuse and their children.

This agreement is for the sole use of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC).

The service will be subject to core and non-core contract activities as detailed in the contract documents.

Bidders are advised that the maximum budget available for the core provision of this contract is £440,000 per annum.

The contract may be subject to future additional funding sources throughout the lifetime of the contract, this non-core activity will be linked to any service or provision that meet the needs of or provide outcomes for the victims of domestic abuse. The non-core requirements as they arise will be subject to negotiation and agreement with the successful provider.

The non-core activity will form part of a framework contract for additional services which the Council may place orders for from time to time subject to additional funding.

The costs submitted by the bidder will be fixed and firm for the full duration of the initial 3-year contract term. Should the extension term be exercised, an uplift may be applied in line with the Consumer Price Index.

It is anticipated that the contract will commence on 01/10/2022 and will run for a period of 36 months making the expiry date 30/09/2025. The contract will have an option to extend by a further 1 x 24-month period at the sole discretion of the Council making the latest possible expiry date 30/09/2027

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The Council is committed to a performance and evidence-based approach to Social Value, bidders are required to propose credible Social Value commitments.

The incumbent supplier of this service considers that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as amended by the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 apply to this contract.