Development and Maintenance of the Worcestershire County Council Childrens Services Online Social Care Procedures Manual

Worcestershire County Council is tendering for the provision of a Children's Services Online Social Care Procedures Manual. The solution will provide a publically available service for hosting a range of children's social care policies, procedures and manuals, which may originate from the UK Government, from the Council or from the solution provider themselves.

There will also be the ability to have a minimum of four structured updates in any one calendar year. The solution must provide integration with the West Midlands Safeguarding Children Procedures and Worcestershire Practice Standards for Social Care.

Web pages should operate functionally equally well with all supported versions of the major web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, on desktop operating systems as well as mobile / tablet operating systems The contract will start on 1st January 2018, allowing an initial set up period if required. The online procedures manual will be live and available to users for 3 years starting on 16th March 2018 until 15th March 2021, with an option to extend for up to a further 12 months.

If you wish to view the documents for this opportunity please click `Express Interest`. Following this, if you wish to apply for this opportunity please click `Opt in` which will then enable you to view and complete the Standard Questionnaire and upload the relevant documents.

After uploading all required documents and completing the questionnaire(s) please remember to press the `Submit your Return` button at the bottom of the page. Suppliers will receive a system generated email to confirm successful submission of their return.

Any questions or clarification should be conducted via `Correspondence` through this portal. 20/10/2017 - Please see attached revision to Tender Guidance document, Section 4 - Tender award Criteria. The attached synopsis clarifies which elements of the system are Mandatory, i.e. must be included, and which elements are not mandatory, however, would be beneficial to have.

Tenders which are not able to provide any of the mandatory elements will score zero '0' and will not be considered. 23/10/17 - Please see answers to supplier questions received to date - e-mailed to suppliers through correspondence. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No