Purpose

A report will be presented to the Director of
Children & Families requesting authority to procure a
contractual provider for the delivery of the national adopter
recruitment campaign by calling off the Crown Commercial Service
framework for the period of 1st April 2024 until 31st March
2027.

Content

The Director of Children and Families gave
permission to undertake a competitive tender to procure a contract
via the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Campaign Solutions 2
(RM6125)  Framework to deliver the
Adoption National Recruitment campaign on behalf of Adoption
England, the National Adoption team. For a period of 1 year from
01/04/2024 – 31/03/2025 with options to up to extend for 24
months in any combination and will be a value of £450,000 per
annum with a maximum total value of £1,350,000 including
extension. The length of this contract will be dependent on an
appropriate level of funding being received from the DfE following
from April 2025.
The Director of Children and Families gave
approval to waive Contract Procedure Rule 15.2 (C)  to allow a combined price/quality spilt approach
with an 70% quality / 30% price split.