UK – Bedford: Housing Related Support for Teenage and Young Parents (BBC222)

The Council is seeking to enter into a contract with a suitably qualified organisation for the provision of Housing Related Support for the provision of housing related support for a Teenage and Young Parent scheme. The services are currently delivered from two locations in Bedford, Charis House and Foster Hill Road.

The service will be expected to provide support to teenage and young parents, with housing related support needs, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. This may include people who have one or more of the following issues: • Mental health problems; • Drug and/or alcohol misuse; • Dual diagnosis; • Are suffering/have suffered domestic abuse; and • A history of offending.

The service will have two elements: accommodation based support and resettlement. The accommodation based support will be delivered within designated buildings and the resettlement element will be available to service users moving on into independent living of any tenure type.

The current service provides 13 units across two (2) sites. One site provides eight (8) units of accommodation and the other provides five (5).

The service will not provide personal, clinical, or health care or professional counselling to its clients within this contract and should not carry out direct work with children within this contract. The contract is not tenure specific and can be delivered to clients residing in any type of independent accommodation including B&B, private rented accommodation and other types of temporary accommodation.

The Council reserves the right to enter into the whole or part of this contract, both in terms of the scale and scope of the contract. The Council is conducting the procurement under the Open Procedure pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (’the Regulations’).

For the avoidance of any doubt, the services to be procured fall within Part 2 (Rules Implementing the Public Contracts Directive), Chapter 3 (Particular Procurement Regimes), Section 7 (Social and Other Specific Services) of the Regulations. It is anticipated that the contract shall commence on 1st November 2015 for a period of five (5) years from contract commencement. The contract may be extended for any period or periods of up to two (2) years in 6 or 12 month blocks at the Council’s sole discretion.