Children's Services Tendering Process

Children's Services engages a tendering process to obtain contracts for services that support children and families. This process allows the Ministry to obtain quality services while being cost effective with taxpayer's money. The services are geographically strategic to ensure that children and families have access to supports throughout Alberta.

Central Alberta Child and Family Services Authority (CFSA) is proud to utilize the tendering processes as defined by Children's Services for services that best meet the needs of the children and families in Central Alberta communities.

Organizations wishing to provide services under contract to the Authority are encouraged to monitor the Alberta Purchasing site at www.purchasingconnection.ca for opportunities that may be of interest.

Family Support (Intervention Services) Tender:
announced November 30, 2007

Central Alberta CFSA is pleased to announce that the following Agencies were successful in the recent Request for Proposals in the Family Support (Intervention Services) Tender:

Category I Services
Basic Family Support Services: drives, escorts for transportation, supervised visitation, supervised visit programs, visitation centres, relief homemaker services, Crisis Support Worker - Level 1, Youth Worker (Social Development)

Category 2 Services
Psycho-Social Educative Services:  visit supervision - intensive, a teaching or specialized homemaker, Crisis Support Worker - Level 2, Youth Worker (Therapeutic), parent education and non-clinical counselling/support

Category 3 Services
Intensive In-Home Preservation and Reunification: Family Support/Preservation, Family Assessment Consultant, Permanency planning support

The successful Agencies for the Family Support (Intervention Services) Tender are as follows:

Our contract specialist staff are engaging in discussions with the successful agencies to negotiate contractual specifics.

Many thanks to the agencies who submitted proposals for the Family Support (Intervention Services) Tender.

Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) Family Support Tender:
announced November 23, 2007

Central Alberta CFSA is pleased to announce that the following Agencies were successful in the recent Request for Proposals in the FSCD Family Support Tender:

Level 1 Services
Respite, personal care, host family, community aide

Level 2 Services
Behavioral and Developmental Aides

The Block-funding model of the Central Alberta CFSA allocated full time equivalents for Program Coordinators and Behavioral and Developmental Coordinators to agencies based on proposal evaluation and current nominal role data for each zone.

The successful proponents in the FSCD Family Support Tender are as follows:
      
Catholic Social Services - Wetaskiwin 
Westward Goals and Support Services 
Accredited Supports to the Community 
Lacombe Action Group for the Handicapped   
Catholic Social Services - Red Deer 
Parkland Community Living and Supports Society (PCLASS)
Central Alberta Residence Society (CARS)
Sylvan Lake Kindercare

Our contract specialist staff are engaging in discussions with the successful agencies to negotiate contractual specifics.

Central Alberta CFSA thanks all agencies for their proposals for the FSCD Family Support Tender.