Published date: 22 April 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 21 May 2021, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Project management consultancy services - 72224000

Location of contract

B19 3SD

Value of contract

£0 to £140,000

Procurement reference

tender_271395/955747

Published date

22 April 2021

Closing date

21 May 2021

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 June 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), through the work of the Homelessness Taskforce, has for the second year, successfully secured funding from the Rough Sleeping Initiative (year 4), for the region. This funding to the WMCA from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is in addition and adds value to funds allocated to individual Local Authorities. The WMCA will liaise with partner Local Authorities to ensure relevance and strategic fit of services commissioned.

The primary objective of the RSI Fund is to:
- Help people sleeping rough off the streets
- Help those who have moved off the streets to successfully progress away from rough sleeping
- Prevent those in crisis, and at imminent risk, from sleeping rough

The WMCA is now seeking submissions to deliver outcomes through the RSI Fund 2021-22. This is being done through two separate tenders made up of the following Lots:

1. Lot D: Outcome focused, spot purchase fund available to organisations to enable individual solutions for people sleeping rough, allowing flexible, personal planning and delivery.
2. Lot H: Social support networks, developing and testing new approaches to sustaining tenancies for people with a history of rough sleeping via use of peer led and other support to promote sustainable social networks to prevent a return to rough sleeping.

The contract for this project will be based on the Memorandum of Understanding document provided under cover of each tender and bids are being assessed on the evaluation criteria outlined in the Specification document. Only those organisations that respond satisfactorily to the Standard Selection Questionnaire will have their tenders assessed.

Please note that the deadline for tender returns for Lot D is 1700 on 7th May 2021 and for Lot H is 1700 on 21st May 2021.

We are holding a pre-tender briefing for Lot H via MS Teams at 1500 on 6th May 2021, please see the Lot H tender documents for further details of how to register.

In order to access the documents and submit a bid please do so through BravoSolution, the WMCA's e-tendering portal (https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk). The tender reference for Lot D is itt_946 and the tender reference for Lot H is itt_947. If you are not already registered on BravoSolution it is free and usually only takes a few minutes to do so.


About the buyer

Contact name

West Midlands Combined Authority

Address

16 Summer Lane
Birmingham
B19 3SD
England

Email

procurement.team@wmca.org.uk

Website

www.wmca.org.uk