To provide a local community base and setting for the provision of support, including access to information, advice and signposting

Bids are welcome as a countywide service or as individual districts

WCC welcome consortium bids 

For further information please contact:
Manjit Nagra
Strategic Procurement – Resources
Resources Directorate
Shire Hall
PO Box 3
Warwick
CV34 4UL
Tel: 01926 412026

Email: manjitnagra@warwickshire.gov.uk

Providers are requested to register on
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc in order to download tender documents.

Deadline for receipt of Tenders: 17:00hrs Thursday 9th February 2012

PLEASE NOTE: This opportunity is restricted to operators who have been successful for inclusion in the Home to School Transport Framework (Ref: 3607). No other operators need apply for this opportunity.

Please find detailed below documents relating to the Home to School Transport auction taking place on 20th January 2012 at 10:30am. You are required to familiarise yourself with all of the documents below and if you have any questions please contact us at procurement@warwickshire.gov.uk.

Important – Operators are required to ensure that they are registered on www.localgovsourcing.co.uk by Friday 13th January by 18:00 in order to participate in this auction.

A Practice eAuction will be run from Monday 16th January 2012 (12:00) until Thursday 19th January 2012 (23:59). Please log-in at any point during this time period to acquaint yourself with the bidding process. Any Operator that does not log in to the training eAuction from 16th January 2012 to the 19th January 2012 and who subsequently finds they are not invited to the eAuction events once they have gone live on Friday 20th January 2012 (10:30) will not be able to participate in this auction round.

Rules of Participation Revised Base Prices

Warwickshire CC Bus eAuction Demo Slides (FINAL) – January 2012v1

24.Local Gov Taxi eAuction Instructions (v12)

Warks Briefing Slides – January 12 Auction Final

Specifications:

TO 11331 319

TO 11330 691

TO 11329 690

TO 11328 105

TO 11327 259am

TO 11326 638

TO 11325 131am

TO 11324 566pm

TO 11323 881

TO 11322 882

TO 11321 633

TO 11320 154am

TO 11319 216

TO 11318 109

TO 11317 256

TO 11316 325

TO 11315 201

TO 11314 251

TO 11313 250

TO 11332 327

Councils have a duty to make arrangements for the accommodation and care of Children for whom they have a responsibility pursuant to the Children Act 1989. The West Midlands Children’s Commissioning Partnership (WMCCP) is a regional group of fourteen Councils and Service Provider representatives. The Councils within the WMCCP are taking steps to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, accommodation for Looked After Children, which will meet the needs of the Child/Young Person as outlined in the Sufficiency Duty (Children Act 1989 Section 22G).

To express an interest in this tender please go to: http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/etendering/

Deadline for Receipt of tenders: Monday 30th January 2012 at 4pm (16:00hrs)

Warwickshire County Council are To provide a local community base and setting for the provision of support, including access to information, advice and signposting.

Bids are welcome as a countywide service or as individual districts.

WCC welcome consortium bids. 

Contract length: 2 years. WCC reserve the right to extend services for an additional 1 x 12 month periods.

Providers are requested to register on
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc  in order to download tender documents.

For further information please contact:

Manjit Nagra
Strategic Procurement – Resources
Resources Directorate
Shire Hall
PO Box 3
Warwick
CV34 4UL
Tel: 01926 412026

Email: manjitnagra@warwickshire.gov.uk
 
Deadline for receipt of tenders: 17:00hrs Thursday 9th February 2012

Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council are inviting tenders to provide, under one contract, both a Children’s Rights Service and an Independent Visitor Service for those eligible young people receiving a social care service from either council.  The contract will commence from 1st July 2012 for a period of 3 years and 9 months with a possibility of an extension of a further 2 years.
The advocacy service will champion and promote the rights of looked after children and young people in line with the National Advocacy Standards, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and any other relevant legislation.
Tendering organisations should have the organisational capacity to undertake and manage the service, together with the requisite level of expertise and knowledge.
Tender packs are available at https://tendering.coventry.gov.uk/selfservice/
The closing date for bids is 12:00 Noon, 9th January 2012.

Organisations should be aware that Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 will apply.

In House training courses at the Council’s premises in Warwick for multiple delegates  in:

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)  Business Analysis modules namely: 
• Business Analysis Essentials,
• Requirements Engineering,
• Systems Development Essentials,
• Systems Modelling Techniques,
• Modelling Business Processes,
• Organisational Context.
Courses to include ISEB certificate exams at end of each module.

Plus flexibility for staff to attend public courses if very low numbers require training.

To express an interest please email:
helenanderson@warwickshire.gov.uk

cc procurement@warwickshire.gov.uk

Deadline for receipt of Expressions of Interest: 13.00 hrs on Monday 12th December 2012

Warwickshire County Council require Treasury Management Consultancy.

Participants shall need to provide significant demonstratable experience of successful ongoing treasury management consultative experience to local authority clients. 

The provision is expected to be covered under a three (3) year  contract which will hold options to extend for up to a further two (2) years

To express an interest and to ask questions regarding the documentation please contact the following email address:  pensions@warwickshire.gov.uk

The main contact is:

Phil Triggs, Shire Hall, Warwick, CV34 4RH  Tel: 01926 412 227

Suppliers shall need to request documentation before the following deadline:  30th November 2011

The deadline for returning submissions is the 31st December 2011

This procurement exercise is being carried out by the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber wishes to source a provider to design and host a web-portal which is to act as the primary point of contact for businesses operating within or planning to relocate to Coventy and Warwickshire.

The provison is initially required for three years starting in early 2012.

Interested parties are able to download the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) from the following websites. 

Chamber Website  www.cw-chamber.co.uk

Local Enterprise Partnership Website  www.cw-lep.co.uk

Federation of Small Businesses Website  www.fsb.org.uk/warwickshire

Instructions within the PQQ will inform you on how to submit the document.

Any questions or quries should be directed to the following email address)  tenders@cw/chamber.co.uk

The deadline for PQQ Submissions is the 28th November 2011

The Authority currently handles in excess of 10,000 weighbridge tickets and waste transfer transactions that need recording and checking by Officers.  From 1stDecember 2011 the Authority will directly manage eight Household Waste Recycling Centres (one of which is a Waste Transfer Station) and as such the Authority will have large quantities of data to process and manage.  A Digital Waste Data System is now sought to manage this data.  The Authority requires data to be entered into the system from April 2012.

It is anticipated that the contract will run from February 2012  for 4 years with an option to extend annually for up 2 years.

The Authority will be using an e-tendering system for the administration of this procurement process.  The webaddress is https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc

Providers must register on the system to express an interest.  Registration and use is free.

All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the e-tendering system.  However, if you are unable to register with the website contact us at procurement@warwickshire.gov.uk

Submissions shall be uploaded  back onto the e-tendering system.                                                                   https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/

The deadline for receipt of tenders is 9am on the 16th January 2012.

Warwickshire County Council is seeking to sell its 8 remaining internally operated residential care homes for older people.

The Authority is seeking to sell the homes as going concerns. Each home has existing residents that are to remain in the homes and the current staff will be transferred in line with the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulation 2006.

The homes are to be sold on a freehold basis with a restrictive covenant placed on them (to ensure to the land is continued to be used in some form the benefit of the elderly).

To ensure the continued quality of care, the sale of the homes is being managed via this tender process. This tender also includes the necessary care contracts to provide for existing residents.

The 8 Homes are:

Bracebridge Court, Atherstone

Caldwell Grange,Nuneaton

Four Acres, Studley

Low Furlong, Shipston

Lower Meadow, Bishopston

Orchard Blythe, Coleshill

Park View,Warwick

The Lawns, Whitnash

 Bidders will be allowed to bid for one or more of the homes and in any combination.

The Authority is expecting to receive capital receipts for the sale of these businesses and will be offering a residential care contract to cater for the existing residents (and potentially future residents). The Authority will be open to proposals around the type of contract to be awarded i.e. whether on a spot basis or block basis.

The Authority may wish to continue the day-care and respite provision within the homes if this is of interest to bidders.

The procurement process is expected to take around 7 months and will involve this first stage (pre-qualification) followed by a tender stage, a dialogue stage and a best and final offer stage. As part of this tender procedure the Authority will be looking for evidence of secure funding to ensure the success of any ultimate transaction but will also be seeking to ensure that the successful party (or parties) will deliver acceptable levels of quality.

The Authority is seeking solutions that ensure it receives best value for the homes

This procurement process shall be run electronically on the Authority’s electronic tendering portal.  Providers must register onto this portal  in order to download tender documents and any other supporting information.

The electronic portal address is https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/

Registration is free.  All correspondence or clarifications relating to this procurement process shall be via this electronic portal.  If you have trouble registering, contact us at ssdtender@warwickshire.gov.uk

Submissions shall be uploaded  back onto the electronic portal.  https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/

 The deadline for the return of PQQ documents is the 13th December 2011.

Warwickshire County Council are considering a range of different service models which could provide a Direct Payment Support Service in the future within Warwickshire.

It is proposed that there will be four components to the support service.  These include Information and Advice, Engaging and Recruiting Personal Assistants, Payroll Services and Financial Management of the Direct Payment.

Should you be interested in providing such a service or believe you could assist the Authority in understanding and developing its requirements then please  make contact by emailing adultcontracting@warwickshire.gov.uk

All received expressions of interest will receive an Information Pack with further details.  These packs will be sent out until 17:00 hours (5pm) on Friday 18th November.

The Authority wishes to purchase a Library Book Vending Machine.  This will include the purchase or lease agreement, all warranty details, planned servicing and ad-hoc repair maintenace.

The tender document outlines three differently specificed items.  Tenderers are encouraged to provide bids for one, two or all options.  The Authority will decide during evaluation which Specified item (Option 1, 2 or 3) it wishes to proceed with.  Resposes for that option will be evaluated.  

The machine will require a capacity for 400 items unique without cassettes.  It will also be possible to extend the machine allowing for greater capacity.

For further details and to gain documentation please visit: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/

Any questions regarding the tender document should be asked in the e-tendering portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/ and all responses shall be placed on this portal.

The deadline for clarifications is Monday 5th December 2011 at 12:00 noon

The deadline for returning tenders is Monday 12th December 2011 at 12:00 noon

Warwickshire County Council is looking to appiont a Consultant is to work on a study investigating whether a new Park and Ride facility near M6 Junction 2 (M69/A46/A4600) would be both feasible and deliverable.

For further information or to request docuements please contact:

Nigel Whyte
Transport and Highways, Communities Group, PO Box 43, Shire Hall, Warwick, CV34 4SX
01926 412094
tpu@warwickshire.gov.uk

Deadline for receipt of tenders: Friday 11th November 2011