Department of Education / Provision of OSHC Services for Mid Western Region Local Government Area - SINSW02571/21

To establish a Group of Schools OSHC services located within the Mid-Western Region Local Government Areas.

The OSHC services will be for the following

•  Cudgegong Valley Public School – Onsite

• Hargraves Public School – Onsite

•  Ilford Public School -Onsite

•  Kandos  Public School – Transport

•  Lue Public School- Transport

• Mudgee Public School – Host School

• Rylstone Public School – Host School

 The Group of Schools model provides establishment funding to assist with the development of viable services over time and will support the new provider in establishing and building the services. This project is to engage a licensor to operate Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) services

 

Community Use of School Facilities can be found via the following link: https://education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/policies/community-use-of-school-facilities  

 

Before and after school care for schools and providers is available at the following link; https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/going-to-a-public-school/primary-schools/before-and-after-school-care/resources/before-and-after-school-care-information-pack.pdf

NSW Regions: Central West, Orana/Far West

Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.

The National Standards for OSHC set down the minimum standards necessary to ensure that OSHC services provide a safe, nurturing and developmental experience for the children and provide the foundations for current and future systems of Quality Assurance.

These standards address; facilities, health & safety, staffing (including staff to child ratios), service procedures (policies, programs etc.) and administrative functions required to operate an OSHC service. Further information relating to these standards can be found via; https://www.acecqa.gov.au/nqf/national-law-regulations and https://www.acecqa.gov.au/nqf/national-quality-standard

OSHC services are regulated by the Department of Education Early Childhood Education & Care Directorate. Please refer to the Department of Education internet for more information; https://education.nsw.gov.au/early-childhood-education

 

Interested applicants submitting an application to this Request for Tender (RFT) must ensure that they (and by extension, associated entities in any other State of Australia and proposed staff) are able to comply with ALL conditions of this RFT document and all relevant Regulations and Acts including Privacy Act at all times.

 

This is a mandatory condition and applies throughout the tender process and duration of the Agreement entered into by the tenderer if successful. Any non-compliance issue occurring during any stage of the tender process may result in rejection of the proposal by the Department and/or termination of the Agreement if the latter is executed.

 Only information submitted on the RESPONSE SCHEDULES published will be assessed. Please DO NOT include any attachments unless requested in the Response Schedules.

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