Quotation for a Board Development Programme to support the Sandwell Children's Trust

Quotation for a Board Development Programme to support the Sandwell Children's Trust

This procurement process is being conducted by Sandwell MBC on behalf of the Sandwell Children's Trust. However, the successful bidder will be entering into a contractual arrangement with Sandwell MBC.

The Trust is a new, not-for-profit, operationally-independent organisation that has been established by the Council following the statutory direction of the Secretary of State as a company limited by guarantee for the purposes of delivering children's social care services in Sandwell. The Trust is wholly owned by the Council and is a \"Teckal\" compliant company (for the purposes of the public procurement rules). The Council intends to enter into a ten-year contract with the Trust for the delivery of children's social care services. Building on recent improvement, the Sandwell Children's Trust will first put in place the necessary improvements in children's social care to reverse the fragility and weakness still apparent in service delivery. The Trust will then drive a sustainable model of delivery and improvement designed to bring good and outstanding services to the Borough - innovating where possible and using the freedoms of the Trust approach to develop a new and sharper focus to the difficult issues the community faces.

The board of directors of the Trust shall include:

• A Chair (non-executive director) as appointed by the Secretary of State in consultation with the Council • Three executive directors comprising the Trust's Chief Executive and two other members of the executive management team • Three independent non-executive directors with collective knowledge and expertise across children's services, transformation/change and finance/audit • Two additional non-executive directors appointed by the Council (e.g. members and /or officers)

With this context, the Sandwell Children's Trust seeks to procure external support to develop the capacity and governance arrangements for the Trust Board. Aiming to ensure that the Board's governance arrangements are fit for purpose and externally validated.

The successful organisation will need to work with the Board and individual Board members between now and the projected go live date for the Trust, 1st April 2018. As an element of this contract will be required following the go live date, then this contract will need to novate to the Trust, this will be undertaken in consultation with the successful organisation.

The Board have set aside the 19 December for work on this programme. The successful applicant must be available to work on this date.

The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement exercise, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

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Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No