Legal services, due diligence services and financial and governance advice
Department For EducationEstimated Value
Not specified
Deadline
Not specified
Published
10 January 2018
Type
Not specified
Overview
The Local Authority Interventions Unit from the Department for Education are seeking to increase the current market of due diligence, legal services suppliers and financial and governance advisers for when interventions are escalated into a Children's Services Trust. Children's Services Trusts are created as an intervention in the event of a service failure, under direction from DfE, with clear expectations and legal agreements about service scope, ownership and control.
The Department have two 'enforced' Trusts to date (Doncaster and Slough), with another enforced Trust currently being set up (Sandwell). As part of the set up for these kinds of projects, depending on the level of risk and/or cooperation from the local authority, the Department needs to draw on external services such as, legal services and due diligence services.
For existing Children's Services Trusts, expert financial and governance advice has been needed to give the new organisation the financial resilience and appropriate governance structures to perform well. Additional information: It is anticipated that this market engagement exercise will incorporate a supplier engagement event for interested parties during September 2017, currently scheduled for Monday 18 September.
Contact & helpdesk
Please email faye.skelton@education.gov.uk for further details, with 'DPS open procurement supplier event' in the title.
Additional details
The invitation to register on the DfE's Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) will go out on 18 September 2017. Please note this does not equate to a formal expression of interest in any future procurement activity.
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10 January 2018
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