SPS 2093- Advocacy and Independent Visitors Service

. Suitably qualified and experienced service providers are invited to tender for the provision of Advocacy and Independent Visitors Service in Royal Borough of Greenwich.

The contract will include a combined advocacy and independent visitors' service for children in the care of the local authority to enable a seamless response for looked after children and young people. There is a statutory duty for all local authorities to provide advocacy services and independent visitors for vulnerable children and young people and the service will ensure that Greenwich children and young people have a strong voice that is heard at the heart of care planning and review processes in Social care.

The contract will initially be for a period of 3 years, commencing 1st April 2019 with the option to extend annually for a further two years subject to satisfactory performance, meeting the key performance indicator (KPIs) and budget availability. The total potential term of the contract is 5 years.

TUPE

Bidders are requested to complete the attached confidentiality undertaking and return as soon as possible in order to obtain TUPE information

Additional information:

Full details relating to the Services are provided in the tender documents. To participate, Suppliers will need to register as a Supplier with ProContract before obtaining access to the tender documents. The link to access this opportunity is

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Tender Responses are required to be submitted no later than 28th September 2018, 12noon UK Local time via ProContract tender portal. If you require any clarifications on the tender documents, please submit these in writing via Messaging in ProContract tender portal by 19th September 2018, 12noon UK Local time. The Council's responses to these clarification questions will be issued periodically via the ProContract tender portal Messaging system.

Please note that this project has been advertised on Contracts Finder/ other web portals, however, the ProContract tender portal is the only portal that includes all the relevant documents required to respond to this opportunity, bearing Project Id: DN361897. No Tender submissions will be considered without completing the tender documents in full including attachments and returning them in alignment with the instructions within the tender documents.