NSW Department of Communities and Justice / Department of Family and Community Services Intensive Therapeutic Care Invitation for Expressions of Interest - FACS.16.178

The Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) is recommissioning current residential care services with new contracts to commence 1 July 2017.

Through the recommissioning, FACS will progressively implement Intensive Therapeutic Care with the following objectives:

·         Provide consistent, evidence based therapeutic care to children and young people;

·         Provide permanency and opportunities for more normalised living arrangements;

·         Focus on identifying and delivering the best outcomes for children and young people; and

·         Robust consistent data collection and conduct performance monitoring against agreed outcomes with a view to moving towards outcomes based contracting over time that rewards better performing service providers.

The procurement process for the Program will consist of:

·         The EOI stage, whereby EOI responses will be sought from the market and Applicants will be shortlisted to participate as Respondents in the Request for Tender (RFT) stage;

·         The RFT stage, whereby Respondents  will prepare and submit proposals and Preferred Respondents will be announced; and

·         The completion stage, whereby Intensive Therapeutic Care contracts will be entered into with successful Respondents.

The scope of procurement process includes the following current services:

·         Residential Care

·         Intensive Residential Care

·         Supported Independent Living

·         Supported Family Group Homes

The Invitation for EOI includes the above services that are delivered through:

·         contracted arrangements;

·         exception placements; and,

·         fee for service arrangements.

Applicants are asked through this EOI to express interest in providing a combination of, or all of, the services set out in the EOI document Program Description – Intensive Therapeutic Care.

This Invitation for EOI seeks to identify agencies that are able to provide the component(s) of the endorsed therapeutic care framework to ensure a viable and responsive service system.

 

NSW Regions: Far North Coast, Mid North Coast, New England, Central Coast, Hunter, Cumberland/Prospect, Nepean, Northern Sydney, Inner West, South East Sydney, South West Sydney, Central West, Orana/Far West, Riverina/Murray, Illawarra, Southern Highlands

From $0.00 to $135,000,000.00

Expression of Interest for Specific Contracts - An invitation for Expression of Interest (EOI) for pre-registration of prospective tenderers for a specific work or service. Applicants are initially evaluated against published selection criteria, and those who best meet the required criteria are invited to Tender (as tender type Pre-Qualified/Invited).

This Invitation for EOI is comprised of four parts:

·         Part A – Introduction and Background - Program and Intensive Therapeutic Care Service;

·         Part B –The Program - includes service requirements and commercial framework;

·         Part C –Procurement Process includes details on application process and returnable schedule

          Part D - EOI Terms and Conditions

Accompanying this Invitation for EOI document, the following attachments form the complete EOI:

·         Expression of Interest – Program Description - Intensive Therapeutic Care

·         EOI Application form – EOI form and returnable schedule

·         OOHC Intensive Therapeutic Care Services Service Capacity.xls workbook

·         FACS Conditions of Tendering

·         FACS Statement of Business Ethics

·         FACS Data - Residential OOHC entries 2013-16

·         FACS Data – Residential OOHC exits 2013-16

 

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