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Facing the Challenge - Market Engagement

Prior information notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Kent County Council
County Hall
For the attention of: John Tunnicliff
ME14 1XQ Maidstone
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1622696673
E-mail:

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.kent.gov.uk

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.3)Main activity
General public services
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II.B: Object of the contract (Supplies or services)

II.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Facing the Challenge - Market Engagement
II.2)Type of contract and place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 27: Other services

NUTS code UKJ

II.3)Information on framework agreement
II.4)Short description of nature and quantity or value of supplies or services:
Kent County Council is faced with a financial challenge, as income reduces due to reductions in Government funding, and increased spending demands from demographic and other pressures. Facing the Challenge Transformation Programme sets out Kent County Council's commitment to meeting this this growing gap between resources and needs by taking a radically different approach, an approach that requires whole-council transformation
For this phase of the programme, Kent County Council would like to invite organisations to participate in a Market Engagement exercise with the aim of providing innovative approaches to future service delivery to deliver maximum value for the Council for the following services:
- Finance;
- ICT;
- HR;
- Internal and External Communications;
- Property - Strategic Asset Management;
- Contact Point;
- Legal Services;
- Community Learning Skills;
- EduKent - Services for Schools;
- Libraries;
- Kent Scientific Services;
- In-house Residential Care Homes.
Therefore, we invite organisations who are interested in assisting us with either one or many of the service listed above.
Relevant documents:
o Facing the Challenge: Whole-Council Transformation (July 2013) - https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/documents/s41515/Facing%20the%20Challenge%20Whole-Council%20Transformation.pdf
o Facing the Challenge: Delivering Better Outcomes (September 2013) - https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/documents/s42234/Facing%20the%20Challenge%20-%20delivering%20better%20outcomes.pdf

Lots

This contract is divided into lots: no
II.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

66000000, 38000000, 72000000, 80000000, 80400000, 70330000, 92500000, 92510000, 85311100, 79512000, 79995000, 79414000

II.6)Scheduled date for start of award procedures
II.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.8)Additional information:

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.2)Conditions for participation
III.2.1)Information about reserved contracts

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about European Union funds
VI.2)Additional information:
VI.3)Information on general regulatory framework
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
24.1.2014