Published date: 30 September 2022

Last edited date: 21 October 2022

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 18 August 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Provision of services to the community - 75200000

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

DY1 1HF

Value of contract

£500,000 to £600,000

Procurement reference

H723 - AWARD

Published date

30 September 2022

Closing date

18 August 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 October 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2026

Contract type

Service contract

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?

No

Description

This Contract relates to the provision of a project to support young and vulnerable residents of Dudley to access opportunities for training, to develop skills and to gain a horticulture qualification through delivering a gardening service for vulnerable people in Dudley funded through Dudley MBC's Housing Department.

The service will operate as a partnership between Dudley Housing Services and the successful provider. Dudley Housing Services will promote the service and refer council tenants who qualify to receive it. The successful provider will deliver the service by recruiting and deploying supervised trainees who will be young people or people with learning disabilities or poor mental health from the Dudley Borough who may have an identified vulnerability or need e.g. with learning disabilities or poor mental health or the young unemployed. The trainees may be employees, apprentices and/or volunteers, but must be able to provide a reliable service. They must also receive structured training and any necessary support with key skills in order to improve employability, and the successful provider will be required to demonstrate that the service can offer a pathway into employment and/or further training. Dudley Green Care Service also provides a gardening service to vulnerable council tenants and work in partnership with Housing and the successful provider in terms of allocating qualifying tenants to each of the two services, managing consistent standards between the teams, and providing specialist services that may not be appropriate for delivery by trainees.

This contract has TUPE implications and therefore Appendix One ITT Acknowledgement & TUPE Confidentiality Undertaking will need to be completed and returned.

Award information

Awarded date

25 October 2021

Contract start date

1 October 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2026

Total value of contract

£550,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Creative Support

Address

Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, SK1 3TS

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Alison Blackford

Address

Priory Road
Dudley
West Midlands
DY1 1HF
United Kingdom

Telephone

01384 814828

Email

alison.blackford@dudley.gov.uk

Website

www.dudley.gov.uk