Appropriate Adult for Vulnerable Adult for Vulnerable Adults Service

Award

Buyers

Merseyside Police - Procurement Department

Value

£600,000

Suppliers

The Appropriate Adult Service Limited

Classifications

Guidance services
Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
Other community, social and personal services

Tags

award
contract

Published

3 years ago

Description

The Police & Crime Commissioner for Merseyside (PCC) has notified that she will award funding to provide Appropriate Adult services for Vulnerable Adults in Merseyside for a 12-month period with an option to extend by four periods of 12 months, resulting in a potential 5-year contract, commencing 1st April 2022 – ending 31st March 2027.
The PCC requires a high-quality Appropriate Adult Service which safeguards the interests and welfare of Vulnerable Adults in Police Custody or Voluntary Attendance sites within Merseyside, where parents/carers, or the person with responsibility, are unable or unwilling to attend. The presence of an Appropriate Adult provides one of the essential checks and balances within the criminal justice process and ensures that the rights of Vulnerable Adults are protected.

Similar Contracts

Open

Holiday, Activities and Food (HAF) Programme - Round 2

Southend-on-Sea City Council are seeking to add additional suppliers to join the Framework Agreement for the provision of Holiday Activity and Food Programme Services (HAF) in Southend-on-Sea. The Healthy Activities and Food programme (HAF) has been funded by the Department for Education to deliver activities and food to vulnerable children during school holiday periods. The provision must be used to provide access to holiday activity programmes as follows: - At least 4 hours for 4 days a week for 4 weeks the Summer, and a week in Easter and a week at Christmas - Inclusive and accessible provision - Provision offered to all Benefits related FSM children of statutory school age in Southend-on-Sea. The minimum standards for the delivery of high quality provision include healthy food (meeting the school food standards) enriching activities, physical activities, nutritional education, and for children to: • Eat more healthily • Be more active • Take part in engaging and enriching activities • Be safe and not isolated • Have greater knowledge of health and nutrition • Be more engaged with school and other services • Have greater knowledge and awareness of the holiday club provision Further details in respect of this tender opportunity is contained within the Invitation to Tender documentation pack Suppliers are invited to view the documents and submit their tender to join the Framework and the second round will close at 12 Noon on Tuesday 3rd February 2026. Please view the documents here: https://procontract.due-north.com with the reference DN773627. The contracting authority is Southend-on-Sea City Council and any Successor Body meaning one or more entities which assumes any of the Council's functions (as applicable) as a result of Local Government Reform (LGR). Such successor body or bodies may be, without limitation, a local authority, a combined county authority, a strategic authority or any other status determined pursuant to the Devolution and LGR Legislation.

Published 17 hours ago

Open

SEND Improvement: breaking down barriers to inclusion

LOT 1: Wirral SEND Community of Practice Wirral Council Children's services and its partners propose the creation of a structured, multi-agency Community of Practice (CoP) focused on SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) and health. LOT 2: Wirral SEND Parent & Carer Influence and Voice This work will build on the strengths of existing parent/carer groups by identifying their focus areas, mapping their activity, and supporting a more joined-up approach to peer support and parent/carer influence.

Published 20 hours ago

Open

Advice Services

Havant Borough Council (the council), is inviting tenders from suitably qualified suppliers for the provision of open access social welfare services for people across Havant Borough (the Service). The purpose of the Service is to: - Provide free, confidential, impartial advice to people in need, over the age of 16 who live or work in Havant Borough. - Improve outcomes for individuals and help prevent future crisis, whilst helping reduce demand for health care, social care, housing, and other statutory services. - Seek to understand the underlying causes of people's problems with the aim of helping the individual better deal with the symptoms of their challengers by offering a holistic advice and support service. The Service must be available through a range of options, with and without appointment, on a walk-in basis at accessible locations in the Borough, by telephone, email or other technologies that provide confidential communication. The Service must provide advice that is accurate, up-to-date, lawful, and fit for purpose. It shall be tailored to meet the needs of the customer. Therefore the Service must provide advisors training is areas of high volume / high value demand, and who are also able to help customers find answers that fall outside of these areas. The highest areas of demand are welfare benefits, debt, housing, consumer issues and other issues including family rights, employer rights etc. In addition, the Service must provide specific debt and other advice to council housing customers. This will include attendance at the council's premises for 1.5 days per week to work directly with the councils housing team. The council's budget for this service is £141,000 per year, excluding VAT. This will be paid in 2 instalments in March and October each year. The contract is due to commence on 01 April 2026 for an initial period of 3 years, ending on 31 March 2029. The contract includes the option to extend for additional periods to be agreed, to a maximum contract term of 5 years. This takes the total approximate value of the contract is £705,000 (excluding VAT). The council aims to work with the supplier to identify and bid for new pots of funding. Where this is successful, this may lead to an increase in the total value of the contract. Payment for the contract will be made in 2 instalments at 6 month intervals starting on contract commencement. Tenderers are advised to note that TUPE does apply to this service. TUPE information is available to bidders on request and on completion of a non-disclosure agreement. The key dates for this tender process are: - Tender submission deadline: 12:00 on 19 January 2026 - Standstill period: 30 January 2026 - 11 February 2026 - Contract start date: 01 April 2026 Tenderers should note that the council is part of the "Hampshire and Solent" area that has been accepted as a priority area for English Devolution. This process includes Local Government Reorganisation (LGR), the creation of new unitary authority structures to replace existing "two-tier" county and district council system. Further details about this process are available at https://www.havant.gov.uk/devolution-and-local-government-reorganisation-lgr Definite timescales for this process are still to be confirmed, however, for Tenderers, the prospect of LGR means: - the minimum contract term has been set to allow for flexibility during this period of reorganisation - the take up of extension options may depend on how advice services across the new structure will be commissioned - this contract may be novated to the new authority structure and name during the contract term - the contract may be varied to allow for service adaptations within the new structure, or to prepare for the new structure

Published 2 days ago

AI Bid Assistant

Our AI-powered tool to help you create winning bids is coming soon!

View Contract Source Save Contract

Organisation

Merseyside Police - Procurement Department

Body governed by public law

Pauline Totton

[email protected]

+44 1517771926

[email protected]

+44 08456001528

Timeline complete

Publish

Bid

Evaluate

Award

Complete