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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Ref: (2022/S 000-020766/EN)
Nature of contract: Service contract
Procedure: Not applicable
Type of bid required: Not applicable

Prior information notice without call for competition
Services

This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Official name: Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent Police
Postal address: Police Headquarters, Llantarnam Park Way
Town: Cwmbran
Postal code: NP44 AW
Country: United Kingdom
Contact Person: Sarah Fry
Telephone: +44 7870905431
Email: procurement@gwent.police.uk
Internet address(es):
Main address:
Address of the buyer profile:

The contract is awarded by central purchasing body
Additional information can be obtained from:
the above mentioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Public order and saftey

Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement:
II.1.1) Title: Provision of Missing Children Team Debrief Service

Reference number: JCPS0369
II.1.2) Main CPV code: 85000000
II.1.3) Type of contract: Services
II.1.4) Short Description:
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent may soon be seeking a replacement contract to provide an independent Missing Children Team Debrief Service. There is a significant drive, both nationally and locally, towards developing collaborative safeguarding approaches that prioritise early intervention and prevention to aid in safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. This is reflected in national policy such as the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014, the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 as well as the Wales Safeguarding Procedures.
II.1.6) Information about lots:
The contract is divided into lots: no
II.2) Description:
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
Main CPV code: 85000000
Main CPV code: 85311300

II.2.3) Place of performance
Nuts code:
Main site or place of performance:
Within Gwent Police force area

II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Gwent Police missing children team brings together a partnership of public sector and voluntary organisations that work within the Gwent Police force area. The collaboration aims to continue to streamline services and activities, ensuring sharing of information in a meaningful way for missing children/young people as a group recognised as vulnerable.
The Commissioner is seeking a Contractor to provide a high quality, independent service to provide a senior social worker, support worker/youth workers, debrief workers and a mediation worker specialising in missing behaviours, child sexual exploitation, modern day slavery, and a de-briefing and mediation service for children and young people who have been returned home, following been reported as ‘missing’ to the team.
The Contractor will be required to expand and develop on the current Gwent missing children team. The independent element of the service is to ensure the service user has an independent debrief(s) with a youth worker following a missing episode. Following this debrief, onward referrals for preventative services may be required, for example mental health support, additional support in education, including a specialist mediation worker to undertake family mediation when relationships are fragmented resulting in missing episodes.
The Commissioner requires a specialist senior social worker to identify children vulnerable to child sexual exploitation (“CSE”), modern day slavery and trafficking and to ensure the correct assessments, for example, Sexual Exploitation Risk Assessment Framework) (“SARAF”) and National Referral Mechanism (“NRM”) are undertaken.
The Commissioner is leading this tender process; however, the following are members of the partnership agreement, all of whom shall be entitled to receive the service.
Gwent Police
Aneurin Bevan Health Board
Newport City Council
Caerphilly Borough Council
Torfaen County Borough Council
Blaenau Gwent Borough Council
Monmouthshire County Council
II.2.5) Award criteria

II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:2022-09-23
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description

IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement(GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
IV.2) Administrative information

Section VI: Complementary information
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
VI.3) Additional information:
If interested, please provide contact details for eTenderWales to ensure the tender is dispatched to the correct contact.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at
(WA Ref:123054)

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:2022-07-29