Published date: 1 July 2016

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: 19 July 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£160,000

Procurement reference

Call for delivery Partners - Building Better Opportunities Programme

Published date

1 July 2016

Closing date

19 July 2016

Contract start date

1 August 2016

Contract end date

31 December 2019

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Building Better Opportunities (BBO) is a new multi-million pound funding programme which matches money from the European Social Fund and Big Lottery Fund to tackle poverty and social exclusion faced by the most disadvantaged people in England.

Following the development of the BBO Black Country Employment Support for Over 24's BRIDGES Partnership, further small areas of need have been identified within the Black Country. We are seeking a maximum of one additional delivery partner with a grant allocation of £160,000 to provide a programme of services within or across the Black Country, which include:

• Community-based innovative and creative soft-skills development-related activities
and/or
• Community-based innovative and creative employability-related activities

We are inviting organisations who would like to join our partnership to deliver services relating to the above, to complete and submit our Expression of Interest, which you can download here.

If you would like to apply to be one of our delivery partners, please submit your completed form via email by 9.00am Monday 18th July 2016. Expressions of Interest received after this time may not be considered.

Before deciding to apply for this opportunity, we strongly recommend you read the Building Better Opportunities Programme Guide and the Employment Support for Over 24's Black Country LEP project outlines on Big Lottery Fund's website:
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/programmes/england/building-better-opportunities/black-country

As well as the BBO Programme Guide:
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/programmes/england/building-better-opportunities

Additional information is included in BLF's The Guide to Delivering European Funding:
https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/programmes/england/building-better-opportunities/guide-to-delivering-european-funding

We will only accept electronically completed forms which should be emailed, with the heading 'Employment support for the over 24s' to: business.development@stepstowork.co.uk
Notification of outcome will be received by applicants no later than Monday 1st August 2016

If you require further information please contact Steps to Work via the email addresses above.

This project is funded through Big Lottery Fund and the European Union through European Social Fund.

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About the buyer

Address

Steps to Work
Hatherton Road
Walsall
WS1 1XS
England

Email

business.development@stepstowork.co.uk