What Works Centre for Children and Families
The services relate to a potential procurement of a service provider for the continuation of the What Works Centre for Children and Families, subject to ministerial agreement. The purpose of this notice is to initiate market consultation on a potential procurement for the continuation of the What Works Centre for Children and Families. It is not being used as a call for competition
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Summary
The purpose of this PIN is to initiate market consultation on a potential procurement for the continuation of the What Works Centre for Children and Families. It is not being used as a call for competition. The PIN is intended to:
1. Raise awareness with the market of a potential future procurement process and to enable time for organisations to begin early discussions with the Department and each other as to how they may be able to deliver any future contract.
2. Inform the market that the Department will be undertaking market consultation activity during the coming weeks, to gather information about the supply market; to explore potential delivery models and associated benefits of those models; and to inform its understanding of the risks and issues relevant to managing transition to, and mobilisation of, any new service arrangements.
Market engagement will consist of a virtual event via MS Teams with the opportunity to also attend a commercial in confidence, 1:1 virtual meeting between interested suppliers and the Department. The 1:1 session will give an opportunity to discuss any clarifications you may need and highlight what aspects of the procurement may be most attractive to you.
We aim for the MS Teams event to take place Wednesday, 16 April, 12:00-14:00. If you are interested, please contact james.drew@education.gov.uk to arrange an invitation to the event, advising if you would also like a follow up 1:1 session. We intend to share the outcomes from the main session with all potential suppliers following the conclusion of the consultation period.
Eligibility
Please see the PIN for further information: What Works Centre for Children and Families - Find a Tender
Objectives
The services relate to a potential procurement of a service provider for the continuation of the What Works Centre for Children and Families, subject to ministerial agreement.
Under the Opportunity Mission, within the Family Security pillar, reforming children's social care is critical to keeping children safe. For expected reforms to the children's social care system to be successful they must be based on high quality evidence of interventions that work. Subject to Ministerial agreement, we would want this service to generate and champion actionable evidence that improves services to support family relationships. This should include:
Becoming a What Works Network member, operating independently and setting a strategy alongside DfE
Having a team of experts in conducting high quality evaluations, translating and disseminating evidence .
Establishing relationships with policy makers and local leaders to establish and support delivery of interventions that work based on high quality evidence.
We are seeking views on our high level service requirements and strategy which would deliver this objective. We would at a minimum expect the Cabinet Office's requirement of What Works Centre membership to be met:
collating existing evidence on the effectiveness of programmes and practices
producing high-quality synthesis reports and systematic reviews in areas where they do not currently exist
assessing the effectiveness of policies and practices against an agreed set of outcomes
filling gaps in the evidence base by commissioning new trials and evaluations
sharing findings in an accessible way
supporting practitioners, commissioners and policymakers to use these findings to inform their decisions
Dates
We aim for the MS Teams event to take place Wednesday, 16 April, 12:00-14:00. If you are interested, please contact james.drew@education.gov.uk to arrange an invitation to the event, advising if you would also like a follow up 1:1 session. We intend to share the outcomes from the main session with all potential suppliers following the conclusion of the consultation period.
How to apply
Market engagement will consist of a virtual event via MS Teams with the opportunity to also attend a commercial in confidence, 1:1 virtual meeting between interested suppliers and the Department. The 1:1 session will give an opportunity to discuss any clarifications you may need and highlight what aspects of the procurement may be most attractive to you.
We aim for the MS Teams event to take place Wednesday, 16 April, 12:00-14:00. If you are interested, please contact james.drew@education.gov.uk to arrange an invitation to the event, advising if you would also like a follow up 1:1 session. We intend to share the outcomes from the main session with all potential suppliers following the conclusion of the consultation period.
Supporting information
Please see the PIN for further information: What Works Centre for Children and Families - Find a Tender