Appropriate Adult Service

Essex County Council are retendering the Appropriate Adult contract. The current contract expires on the 31st March 2017.

Essex County Council has a statutory duty to provide an Appropriate Adult Service to juveniles and vulnerable adults in the absence of a parent, carer, social worker or guardian, whilst in custody. Essex County Council Emergency Duty Service (EDS) and the Youth Offending Service (YOS) have jointly commissioned this service. The current contract expires on the 31st March 2017.

The Appropriate Adult Service replaces the requirement of the Essex County Council (Youth Offending Service) or other Essex County Council Social Care Team or the Emergency Duty Service to attend at a Police station as an appropriate adult.

The procurement of an ECC wide Appropriate Adult service to provide support, as appropriate adults, to children and vulnerable adults in custody will also consider the following as part of the contract: • Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and vulnerable adults support • Age determination test (currently spot purchased by Social Care) for children and vulnerable adults • Anti-terrorist detainment (Schedule 7) of children and vulnerable adults.

Additional information: Expressions of interest must be by way of completion and return of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) by the dateand time specified. Online access to the procurement documentation can be found at Contracts Finder andwww.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Supplying-Council/documents/Procurement_Opportunities.xls Potential bidders should contact Essex County Council requesting to be invited to this tendering event byfollowing these instructions: 1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to: [email protected] asking to be invited to this event and providing your contact nameand Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba Registration Details. 2. If you have more than 1 registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of eachregistered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage. If you are not registered in Ariba at all, go to: ‘http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions? type=full’andfollow the instructions to register then follow Steps 1 and 2 above. (Please note: 35 % completion (i.e.mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for yourAriba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100 % completion). The supplier portal will be used throughout the procurement process, and all communications with EssexCounty Council relating to this procurement exercise must be via the supplier portal. The supplier portal hasinstructions on how to use the system and access the information as well as a help desk to assist Bidders.Essex County Council reserves the right to cancel the procurement exercise and/or not to award all or part ofa contract. Essex County Council will not be responsible for any costs incurred by Providers in relation to this procurement exercise.