Published date: 3 January 2020

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: 31 January 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£51,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

C4N47344686

Published date

3 January 2020

Closing date

31 January 2020

Contract start date

1 July 2020

Contract end date

31 December 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Brighter Futures is a community-based project, which provides a wide range of learning and employment support interventions to support holistic social inclusion within Leicester and Leicestershire. We would like to commission Supported Employment provision to complement other forms of support available through the project during its extension period from 1st July 2020 and 30th December 2021. We are inviting applications from providers who are able to supply Supported Employment provision for people with common mental and physical health conditions and/or learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The provision will need to include individual health and employment action planning, advice workshops, vocational profiling, job matching and in-work support. A full description of the provision requirements is included in the attached specification and questionnaire document which is also available at https://www.business2businesslimited.com/current-partnership-opportunities. If you are interested in supplying this provision, please complete the attached specification and questionnaire document and return to Rob Gray at rob@business2businesslimited.com by the submission deadline of 11.45pm on Friday 31st January 2020.
For all clarifications, please send written queries to rob@business2businesslimited.com. A response will be given within two working days of the query being raised. Within three working days of the query being made, the questions and answers document available on the Business2Business website will be updated with an anonymised version of the query and the given response. The deadline for queries relating to this specification is 5pm on Thursday 23rd January 2020.

Responses will be scored against fixed selection and award criteria.
The following selection criteria will be used:

• Organisational capacity
• Economic and financial standing
• Prior experience of service delivery

Tenders that do not satisfy the above selection criteria will be de-selected from the procurement process.
The following Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) award criteria will be used to score tenders that satisfy the selection criteria:
• Price 20%
• Merit of provision design 20%
• Quality of plans to engage employers 20%
• Merit of approach to meeting the needs of participants 20%
• Quality of the approach to be taken to management and monitoring 20%

The highest scoring tender will be the winning tender. Only information supplied by tenderers in response to the questions will be taken into account during the scoring process. Please note that additional information may be requested as part of our due diligence procedures.
Brighter Futures (https://www.business2businesslimited.com/brighterfutures) is a community-based project, which provides a wide range of learning and employment support interventions to support the holistic social inclusion of unemployed and economically inactive people aged 16+ within Leicester and Leicestershire. Delivered through a partnership of local organisations, the project is funded by the European Social Fund and the National Lottery, through the Big Lottery Fund.
The project began in December 2017 and was due to end in June 2020. However, a project extension granted by the Big Lottery and Leicester and Leicestershire LEP will enable the project to continue to meet the ongoing demand and need for support from local residents.
This procurement of Supported Employment provision will be funded through the project's Community Provision Budget which was established to enable the procurement of supplementary support to meet participants' additional needs.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Rikan Patel

Address

Aquis House 211 Belgrave Gate
Leicester
LE13HT
UK

Telephone

07814830257

Email

rikan@business2businesslimited.com