Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13caf-c62d-705c-a1fc-b150b88241f6/ealing-childrens-day-and-community-short-breaks pending GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs # Ealing Children's Day and Community Short Breaks [London Borough of Ealing](https://tendernation.io/buyers/london-borough-of-ealing) Estimated value £19,000,000 to £26,000,000 Published 2 Feb 2023 Deadline Rolling deadline ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. - Buyer says suitable for VCSEs The buyer ticked “suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises” on the notice. - Open procedure Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender The London Borough of Ealing currently spends approximately £3.8 million per annum on providing a range non-residential short breaks, domiciliary care and Direct Payments to support children with additional needs and their families. Our priorities include; offering young people and their families a diverse range of support and meaningful short break opportunities, building local capacity and delivering excellent quality services that offer value for money. We know that short breaks benefit both disabled young people and their families/carers. Ealing is planning to procure a Dynamic Purchasing Vehicle for Children's Day & Community Short Breaks in 2023, with multiple short break settings (draft categories) shown below. Prior to tendering we would like to obtain feedback from the provider market to help inform and shape the commissioning and procurement of service delivery of our short breaks offer for children with additional needs and their families. Ealing wishes to carry out market engagement and invites providers to fill in a questionnaire at the link below. The questionnaire is voluntary and does not form part of any tender or contract. Your response will be confidential and providers are in no way obliged to complete it, or to answer every question within it. However, we hope providers will complete is as it will assist us greatly in informing our future strategy to commission and procure children's day and community short breaks. Please submit your response to this questionnaire by 5.00pm on 20th February 2023 via Microsoft Forms link. You will be asked in the questionnaire if you want to have an individual meeting with commissioners, if so please provide contact details. Meetings are likely to be held on the 28th February & 2nd March 2023 [forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx](https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Q4w6AYeCi0yHixMeMM258yr18p-24EtEgTV6UR8rX4lUMVpKUFdBUVNOTVlPQTRKVFZVTEVaUzJPOC4u) DRAFT Accommodation Based Short Breaks Setting (Provider provides accommodation) Category 1 : 1 staff : 5 children staffing ratio Category 2 : 1 staff: 3 children staffing ratio Category 3 : 2 staff : 1 child staffing ratio Category 4 : 1 staff : 1 child staffing ratio Category 5 : Children with high or complex needs ### DRAFT Community Based Short Breaks Settings (No accommodation required or LA provides accommodation) Category 6 : 1 staff : 5 children staffing ratio Category 7 : 1 staff : 3 children staffing ratio Category 8 : 2 staff : 1 child staffing ratio Category 9 : 1 staff : 1 child staffing ratio Category 10 : Children with high or complex needs It is envisaged that Children's Day and Community Short Breaks requirements could be called off under single or multiple Categories for a single child, or for groups of children. We want to call off services for groups of children in blocks, as well as for individual children. The services called off will be for varying staffing ratios between 5:1 and 1:1 (sometimes within the same contract). Read full description ## CPV classification Health and social work services Source Contracts Finder (UK) [View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/2244430c-5458-4ec5-8c35-3e55d6f01fe7) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. 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