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Suppliers Information Sharing Event
Penni Barker & Sharon HindleySupporting Families Commissioning ManagersandFleur Hobbs-McLernonCategory Lead, Care Sector
Date: 11/12 July 2011
Outline of the Session – Slide 1
• Introduction• Aims of today – what do we / you need to
achieve today?• Setting the Scene – Strategic Landscape• Commissioning processes and procurement
methods• Outline of Service areas to be considered• Information / experience exchange – what
works, what hasn’t, concerns, successes, measuring impact
Outline of the Session – Slide 2
• Incorporating feedback into service specification development / design
• What support can we offer? What is still needed to support supplier market?
• Summary and round up of day• Next steps
• Setting the Scene: The Strategic Landscape
• Ann Van Dyke Strategic Commissioning Lead, Child Poverty
Supporting Families
The Current Landscape: National
• Central Government drive towards Big Society challenges Local Authorities to increase the involvement of the Third Sector and Communities in service development and delivery
• Reduced resources to Local Authorities with a requirement to identify local priorities in order to effectively target funding where it is needed and improve outcomes for children, families and young people
• Less regulation, more creativity and innovation
The Current Landscape: Cornwall• Cornwall Council commitment to move away
from being a provider of services towards becoming an effective commissioning authority
• Focus on improving Safeguarding services in response to OFSTED recommendations
• Acknowledgement of the role of early intervention, prevention and a whole family approach in improving outcomes
The Current Landscape: Children and Young Peoples Plan Priorities
• To create opportunities for Children and Young People to be actively involved in the planning and development of services that affect them and impact on their families
• Ensuring we have a relentless focus on the quality of Children’s Safeguarding Services
The Current Landscape: Children and Young Peoples Plan
• Continuing to improve our Looked After Children’s services so that they continue to improve
• Improve transitions arrangements between children’s and adult services
• Secure improvements to mental health services and improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people
The Current Landscape: Children and Young Peoples Plan
• To work as a partnership to ensure that all children, young people and families in Cornwall receive fully integrated services that keep them safe and provide them with good opportunities
The Current Landscape: Supporting Families
• Vision:• “To empower parents and carers to help
their children fulfil their potential, and to provide extra support for those who need it”
• Developing Strategy which focuses on early intervention and prioritises the most disadvantaged families, children and young people
The Current Landscape: Supporting Families
• Basing services on ‘what works’: evidence-based programmes
• Taking a whole family approach making use of Common Assessment Framework processes
• Developing multi-agency responses to the needs of families, children and young people
The Current Landscape: Supporting Families
• Priorities:• Identifying families facing multiple risks• Allocating resources and commissioning
services• All services implement a ‘Think Family’
approach• Deliver the strategy through the locality model• Working in partnership• Effectively measuring success
• Commissioning Processes & Procurement Methods
• Fleur Hobbs-McLernon Category Lead (Care Sector)
Corporate Procurement and Commissioning Unit (CP&CU)
Tenders in Cornwall Website • Primary aim is to support local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)• All Council tenders over £10,000 MUST be advertised on the
website• Provides greater access to public sector contracts in Cornwall• Launched 1 March 2006 • Over £1 million of contracts posted in the first 3 months • Over 300 contracts advertised since launch
Key features of the website:-
• No cost to advertise tender opportunities• No cost to suppliers to register• Easy to use for buyers and sellers• Automatic e-mail alerts to sellers of tender opportunities• Access to national contracts• Advice and guidance on preparing a successful bid• Links to other tender opportunities throughout the UK
www.tendersincornwall.co.uk
Low Value Procurement
Up to £10,000
Three written quotations required
Intermediate Value
Procurement
£10,000 - £50,000Tenders from at least
three Suppliers
High Value Procurement
£50,000 - £156,442 (Services)
Tenders from at least three Suppliers
Cornwall Council Contract Procedure Rules
Request Quotations
Evaluate Quotations
Advertise Tender Opportunity TIC
Shortlist Suppliers (if applicable)
Dispatch Invitation to Tender (ITT)
Evaluate Tenders
Award Contract and debrief Suppliers
Advertise Tender Opportunity
Upload RFQ TIC
Contact details
• Penni Barker – [email protected] contact is emailMobile: 07527 470476
• Sharon Hindley – [email protected]
• 07891 840439
