Family Safeguarding Service

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  "buyer": {
    "id": "GB-FTS-139989",
    "name": "Lancashire County Council"
  },
  "date": "2025-09-02T15:10:14+01:00",
  "id": "053230-2025",
  "initiationType": "tender",
  "language": "en",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-05641e",
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      "address": {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "locality": "Preston",
        "postalCode": "PR10LD",
        "region": "UKD45",
        "streetAddress": "County Hall"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "jessica.brindle@lancashire.gov.uk",
        "name": "Jessica Brindle"
      },
      "details": {
        "url": "https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/fusion-supplier-portal/"
      },
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        "legalName": "Lancashire County Council",
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    "amendments": [
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        "id": "1",
        "unstructuredChanges": [
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            "newValue": {
              "text": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C.\nDate of contract award: 02/09/2025\nServices are intended be provided from 06/09/2025 for a period of 3 years and 10 months. \nThe approximate lifetime value of the contract is \u00a33,729,761"
            },
            "oldValue": {
              "text": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts  Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. \nThis contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.\nRepresentations by providers must be made to decision makers by midnight on 1st August 2025.\nWritten representations should be sent to caphprocurement@lancashire.gov.uk\nAward decision-makers: Lancashire County Council Children\u0027s Social Care Commissioning.\nkey criteria 1. Quality and innovation\nWeighting 20%: Ensuring the service is of high quality and seeks to find innovative solutions to delivering timely and effective parental mental health support is key. This has therefore\nbeen given the highest quality weighting alongside improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice. \nkey criteria 2. Value\nWeighting 40%: This is the minimum weighting that can be assigned to value. The value of the contract is set, therefore 40% is deemed appropriate. \nkey criteria 3. Integration, collaboration and service sustainability\nWeighting 10%: Whilst still important, quality and timeliness were considered to need to be of a higher weighting.\nkey criteria 4. Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice\nWeighting 20%: Ensuring timely access to mental health support is a key requirement of the service and one of the key measures for success. This has therefore been given the highest quality weighting alongside quality and innovation  \nkey criteria 5. Social value\nWeighting 10%: This is the minimum weighting that can be assigned to social value.\nThere were no identified conflicts of interest during this process."
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              "section": "VI.3"
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    "classification": {
      "description": "Psychiatrist or psychologist services",
      "id": "85121270",
      "scheme": "CPV"
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    "description": "The Lancashire Family Safeguarding Service is a strengths-based, multi-disciplinary approach to supporting families and keeping children safe. It focuses on working collaboratively with the whole family to address challenges that may impact parenting and child welfare.",
    "id": "KS/CYP/LCC/25/1501",
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    "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
    "title": "Family Safeguarding Service"
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