Business Support for Early Years

Contract summary

Industry

• Benefit services - 75310000

• Family allowances - 75330000

• Child allowances - 75340000

Show additional CPV codes for this notice

• Primary education services - 80100000

• Welfare services for children and young people - 85311300

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£60,000

Procurement reference

SR636195038

Published date

4 October 2021

Closing date

22 October 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

22 November 2021

Contract end date

21 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is seeking a single supplier who is an expert on Early Years, (including primary school age up to aged 11) government funded childcare. The supplier will provide educational awareness and understanding of Tax-Free Childcare (TFC), its eligibility criteria and how it works in relation to other government childcare offers available across the U.K.

The successful supplier will be expected to build trusted relationships and provide business support to local authorities (LA), childcare providers and family facing professionals. They will also need to mitigate and gain insight into the barrier's families may have to taking up a childcare offer and build on existing insight learned by HMRC. The supplier will need to use the most appropriate forums (digital or face to face) to deliver relevant training courses to the identified stakeholders, ensuring maximum reach and the opportunity for these to be accessed at the time most convenient if attendance at the course is not possible.

The supplier will be expected to demonstrate that they, or their sub-contractors (if applicable), have the relevant relationships with, experience and expert subject knowledge of the childcare market to provide effective capability-building and challenge to LAs, childcare providers and health visitors (and any other suitable professionals).

They will be required to have access to a list of the professionals they suggest engaging with and their contact details. There will also be a requirement to establish relationships with LAs to secure participation in workshops to upskill LA policy officials.

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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Business Support for Early Years

• Early engagement
• Published 4 May 2021

Attachments

• 170301 Ariba Supplier Guidance v7.pdf
• Information on bidders
• Ariba supplier registration guidance

Additional text

To participate please ensure you are registered at the link below as soon as possible at http://hmrc.supplier-eu.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full. As part of the registration process you will receive a system generated email asking you to activate your SAP Ariba supplier account by verifying your email address.
Once you have completed the activation process you will receive a further email by return confirming the 'registration process is now complete' and providing you with 'your organisation's account ID' number. If an email response from HMRC is not received within one working day of your request, please re-contact sapariba.hmrcsupport@hmrc.gov.uk (after first checking your spam in-box) notifying non-receipt and confirming when your registration request was first made. Once you have obtained 'your organization's account ID' number, please email Bhavina.patel1@hmrc.gov.uk and e.procurement@hmrc.gov.uk before the closing date with your account ID number.
Once you have complied with the foregoing you will receive an e-mail confirming access to the procurement event.
Further information about HMRC's procurement tool SAP Ariba, a Suppliers Guide and general information about supplying to HMRC is available on the HMRC website: www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/supplying.htm.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Bhavina Patel

Address

Ralli Quays
Salford
M60 9LA
England

Email

bhavina.patel1@hmrc.gov.uk