Published date: 4 October 2021

Last edited date: 28 October 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: 5 November 2021, 9pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Construction work - 45000000

Location of contract

OX11 7HJ

Value of contract

£118,000

Procurement reference

SOFEA/1E/02

Published date

4 October 2021

Closing date

5 November 2021

Closing time

9pm

Contract start date

22 November 2021

Contract end date

17 December 2021

Contract type

Works

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

Private procurement rules

Supply chain notices are business-to-business transactions and are not bound by the same rules and restrictions as public sector contracts. The UK government is not responsible for the conduct of such procurement.

Description

This is an additional week for the tender SOFEA/1E/02 to allow for scrutiny of new drawings.

SOFEA is an innovative education and training organisation with a strong track record in enabling disadvantaged young people to (re)engage with learning, skills development and work. Whilst young people are referred to us by schools and colleges, social services, CAMHS and the police, many are at significant risk of becoming long-term NEET and falling into a life of poor qualifications, low skills, insecure work or unemployment.

Whilst Covid-19 has disproportionately impacted younger people, those with poorer qualifications and lower skilled jobs SOFEA is a named partner in Oxfordshire's Economic Recovery Plan and is providing 26 Kickstart apprenticeships over the next 12 months in addition to its own Government funded work programmes.

Based in Didcot, SOFEA runs FareShare food redistribution operations and our skills development and employability training programmes are provided within the functioning warehouse, providing various qualifications including warehouse management, forklift driving and logistics.

Having recently expanded the warehouse capacity SOFEA is about to reconfigure our existing warehouse and offices into a multi-use education space. This will include the refurbishment of our training rooms and technology refurbishment workshop to ensure more young people are able to achieve the qualifications, work experience, confidence and self-esteem to lift them out of a life of disadvantage and become positive and productive members of society and contributors to the local economy.

This procurement is for the power and heating works element of the conversion.

Please return an electronic copy of your Bid including any supporting material by e-mail to: projects@sofea.uk.com

More information

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About the buyer

Contact name

Anthony Leonard

Address

1e Trident Park
DIDCOT
OX117HJ
England

Telephone

01235510774

Email

projects@sofea.uk.com

Website

https://www.sofea.uk.com/