Safe and Strong Families – Stage 2 – Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) ONLY - RFx_1088 - ACCO

Description

DCJ has a tender targeted to ACCOs to deliver Safe & Strong Families, an early intervention service focused on preventing & responding to Domestic & Family Violence, across priority locations in NSW.

Overview

Project goals

The Department of Communities & Justice (DCJ) has received $13 million in funding from the Commonwealth under the Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Responses National Partnership Agreement 2023-25 to deliver Safe and Strong Families, an early intervention service, across priority locations in NSW. 

The target group for Safe and Strong Families includes children, young people and parents/carers who are at risk of, are currently experiencing, or who have experienced, family violence. This includes: 

•  Aboriginal children, young people, families and communities.

•  0–5-year olds;

• children and young people at risk of disengagement from school, family and community;

• young parents with known vulnerabilities or who are experiencing a number of hardships.

• children and young people affected by a mental health condition/s. 

This procurement will involve allocating $6 million (inclusive of GST) of funding across an anticipated 15 new contracts. Each contract will be for $400,000 (inclusive of GST) for a contract term of 12-24 months. Please note that whilst the initial contraction period is for 12 months, the contract may be extended for up to another 12 months should the funds not be fully expended. 

Organisations applying for this open tender across the 15 identified LGAs, must demonstrate that they are an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation to be eligible to apply. 

Note: there is a separate tender for additional locations for both ACCOs and non-ACCOs – rfx_1089.

Scope

Safe and Strong Families aims to address a gap in the family violence service system as evidence demonstrates intervening early will improve the trajectory and outcomes for children and young people who have experienced family violence. 

Safe and Strong Families has a dual focus, supporting both victim survivors and their children, who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, family violence. The program will deliver therapeutic, trauma-informed and culturally safe early support to victim survivors and their children. 

The program stands out from other family violence services as a soft entry point for vulnerable families, and service providers are encouraged to work with victim survivors and their children as long as required to achieve positive outcomes. 

It will be delivered under DCJs Targeted Earlier Intervention (TEI) program. TEI offers culturally safe, responsive and flexible support services to meet the needs of children, young people and families experiencing or at risk of vulnerability. The flexibility of the TEI program allows support to families when they need it, and strong local connections within the service system allows a customised response to families addressing issues early and preventing escalation to a crisis response. 

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Additional details/instructions

This is an open tender for the following 15 LGAs in the DCJ Districts:  

Central Coast District

1.      Central Coast  

Far West District

2.      Broken Hill  

Hunter District

3.      Maitland/Cessnock

4.      Muswellbrook/Singleton  

Illawarra Shoalhaven District

5.      Shoalhaven  

Mid North Coast District

6.      Kempsey

7.      Coffs Harbour 

Northern NSW District

8.      Clarence Valley  

Southern NSW District

9.      Eurobodalla  

South Western Sydney & Sydney District

10.    Canterbury Bankstown  

South Western Sydney

11.    Campbelltown  

Western NSW District

12.    Dubbo Regional

13.    Walgett

14.    Bathurst Regional  

Nepean Blue Mountains District

15.    Penrith

This tender opportunity can only be accessed and responded via the Department’s end to end procurement system, Procurement Central. Any submission lodged outside of Procurement Central will not be considered by the Department.

To participate in the tender opportunity, please register on https://justice.bravosolution.com/web/login.html.

Organisations who have not registered on Procurement Central will not be able to access the tender information. If you have already registered on Procurement Central, you are not required to register again.

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Requirements

Mandatory requirements

1. Social procurement (SME Policy) ^*

   Community and social services

   Category and estimated value is subject to social procurement.

   If you are successful in winning this opportuntity you will be required to submit quarterly reporting, do you agree?

   Response type

   Radio button (Yes/No)

Opportunity requirements

Evaluation

Weighting

The evaluation weighting is an estimate and is subject to change.

Price

10%

Non price

90%

Terms and conditions

Global terms and conditions

• buy NSW Tenders Terms and Conditions (210 KB)

Notices

No notices have been posted for this opportunity.