Published date: 1 April 2019

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: 23 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Recruitment services - 79600000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£15,000

Procurement reference

Employer Recruitment Services

Published date

1 April 2019

Closing date

23 April 2019

Contract start date

30 May 2019

Contract end date

1 December 2020

Contract type

Supply contract

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?

No

Description

As part of the Athlete Futures Network programme, we commit periodically to running careers fairs and workshops for our athletes to enable them to engage with prospective employers who can provide meaningful work placements, work shadowing, part-time jobs and internships/apprenticeships. The Network also supports former World Class Programme (WCP) athletes who have already transitioned out of sport, whether in the recent past or some time ago. This means that a breadth of athletes attend all our events; some who need to fit career development in around training and competing and some who are already free to look for meaningful full-time career opportunities post-transition.

In 2013 and 2016, following the London and Rio Games respectively, we did this on a large scale and in 2018, following the PyeongChang Winter Games, we ran four smaller Roadshow events at Elite Training Centres across the country. In 2020, following the Tokyo Games, we would like to repeat a larger scale event, comprising workshops, an athlete panel and most importantly, a careers fair. To this end, we will invite appropriate UK-based organisations who are able to provide development and work opportunities to the athletes who will be based all over the UK.

UK Sport would now like to appoint an organisation to help source and recruit potential employers from a variety of industries to attend the Athlete Futures event in Autumn 2020. The location is still TBC, however it will likely be close to the centre of the UK.

UK Sport now invites Tenders for the provision of Employer Recruitment Services for the Athlete Futures event ("the Services") in accordance with this ITT and the attached documents. As this process is conducted below the EU threshold for tenders there is no separate pre-qualification stage or questionnaire but potential suppliers are required to register their expression of interest in tendering in accordance with paragraph 5 below.

Suppliers wishing to tender for the contract are requested to register their expression of interest by email to jess.pether@uksport.gov.uk and kate.palmer@uksport.gov.uk by 15:00 on 23 April 2019.

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Suppliers wishing to tender for the contract are requested to register their expression of interest by email to jess.pether@uksport.gov.uk and kate.palmer@uksport.gov.uk by 15:00 on 23 April 2019.

About the buyer

Contact name

Jess Pether

Address

21 Bloomsbury Street
LONDON
WC1B3HF
England

Email

jess.pether@uksport.gov.uk