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# Short Breaks for Children who are Disabled and/or have Complex Health Needs

[Dorset County Council](https://tendernation.io/buyers/dorset-county-council)

Estimated value

£2,523,000

Published

23 Dec 2015

Deadline

Closed

31 Jan 2016

## Who can bid

- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

## About this tender

Project Scope:

We are looking to secure suitable service providers to join appropriate frameworks in order to provide a range of short break opportunities for children, young people and their carers.

The Framework categories are:

Framework Category 1: Specialist Residential overnight short breaks

Framework Category 2: Specialist Saturday, after school and holiday short break sessions based in Weymouth area

Framework Category 3: Specialist Saturday, after school and holiday short break sessions

Framework Category 4: Sessional services (at home or in the community) including befriending/buddy/PA schemes

Framework Category 5: After school, holiday and weekend play, sports and activity sessions for all ages

Framework Category 6: Activity, day and evening sessions for young people aged 15-18 years

### Category 1 - 3

Support for Children and Young People, from providers who successfully gain a place on a framework will be called-off the framework by the Children who are Disabled Teams, Childrens Services, working alongside the families, who meet the threshold to receive this support

### Category 4 ? 6

Once Providers are successfully onto the frameworks, a mini competition will be ran annually at the start of the financial year in order to allocate funds and define support for the year. The mini competition for the financial year 2016/17 will run from 24th February 2016.

Additional information: All documents available at [supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk](https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk)

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## CPV classification

Health and social work services

Source

Contracts Finder (UK)

[View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/25f1d72b-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b)

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