Market Engagement for a new SEND Alternative Provision Open Framework

Hampshire County Council wish to create a new open framework for the provision of additional education and supportive services commissioned by Hampshire County Council to pupils in Hampshire who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). EHCP's are for those children (0-16) or young people (16-19) or adults (19-25) with special educational needs who require support beyond that which an educational setting can provide for Children and Young People on SEN support.
The service's primary function is to fulfil the Authority's statutory obligation under the Children & Families Act and SEND Regulations (2014) to assess, meet and review the needs of pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN), through engagement with families and support professionals. Under the Children and Families Act 2014 the purpose of an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) is to make special educational provision to meet the special educational needs of the child or young person, to secure the best possible outcomes for them across education, health and social care and, as they get older, prepare them for adulthood.
Examples of supporting services could include tutoring pupils who are in education, providing tutoring or mentoring for pupils who are struggling to engage in education, supporting pupils who are educated other than at school (EOTAS) or working to provide specialist support to aid education placements and children and young people who require a more bespoke education package. The following services will be in the scope of the Open Framework, with future flexibility to allow these to be changed, if required: • Tutoring (QTS qualified) in person / online  • Tutoring (non QTS) in person / online  • Specialist teachers in person / online  • Regulated Services supporting education - Therapies (HCPC registered)   • Other services supporting education - Inclusion Support (mentoring / non-registered therapies) in person / online  The requirements cover services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) and, as such, is not subject to the full regime of the PCR 2015 but is instead governed by the 'Light Touch Regime' contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of PCR 2015 (Regulations 74 to 77). The Open Framework will be let for an initial period of 4 years and further extensions in flexible periods of to 8 years will be available, taking the maximum length of the Open Framework to 12 years. This framework will operate concurrently with the existing framework SEN Discretionary Payments Open Framework (CS18368) and will eventually replace it. There will be four information events in January to provide information and engage with existing and interested providers.. This will include a presentation by the SEN Team, a question-and-answer session and an explanation of the tendering process by a member of the Procurement Team. These events will take place online, via Teams, on the following dates: Monday 20th January, 10:30 - 11:50 Tuesday 21st January, 09:30 - 10:50 Monday 27th January, 14:30 - 15:50 Thursday 30th January, 14:30 - 15:50 Booking attendance will be managed via Intend correspondence. More information on how to book onto one of these events can be found in the Additional Information under Section 11.2.14 of this notice.