Published date: 23 May 2017

Last edited date: 23 May 2017

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Approach to market date: 23 May 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Scotland

Value of contract

£0 to £25,000

Procurement reference

BIG001-0843

Published date

23 May 2017

Approach to market date

23 May 2017

Contract start date

16 July 2017

Contract end date

16 April 2019

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Early Action System Change Programme will invest up to £7.5m to help accelerate a shift to investing a greater share of public resources in effective, early action.

It will do this by offering dedicated resources to bring together local multi- agency partnerships to co-design longer term, preventative approaches in one of three key areas:

- Healthy Diet & Active Lifestyle
- Children, young people & families, and
- Women and the criminal justice system.

Systems change is a complex area and this programme seeks to influence the expenditure and delivery plans of public sector agencies and their partners, as well as fostering a genuine culture of community led decision making and resource allocation.

While we have considerable investment expertise within the Fund in these areas, we would benefit from further training, expert advice and guidance about how to achieve effective systems change within local authority, regional or strategic area partnership settings and support to scrutinise and influence local area partnership delivery, commissioning and spending plans.

This contract, then, is to support Big Lottery Fund Scotland Directorate Early Action staff in three key areas:

a) Mentoring key personnel (small team and one to one staff development) across the assessment and decision making stages, to enhance their knowledge, skills and confidence to support the local area partnerships to frame, achieve and learn from well-developed change strategies.

b) Providing expert analysis of early stage proposals to the Fund within this programme, with a particular emphasis on assessing partners' change management readiness, the rationale for their local systems change and intended approach, and

c) On-going coaching support through initial Early Action proposal implementation (supporting Fund staff to review and approve more detailed partnership delivery plans, as well as local work getting underway).

More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2017/2018 £25,000

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Tracey Orekoya

Address

1 Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
England

Email

procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk

Website

https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/about-big/tender-opportunities