Published date: 26 October 2018
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Awarded contract (published 4 September 2019, last edited 10 June 2020)
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Contract summary
Industry
Management-related services - 79420000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£228,707.60
Procurement reference
ITT _30438
Published date
26 October 2018
Closing date
23 November 2018
Contract start date
1 April 2019
Contract end date
31 July 2021
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The Contracting Authority in this procurement is the Secretary of State for Education
acting through the Education and Skills Funding Agency (the "ESFA"). The ESFA is an
executive agency of the Department for Education, exercising functions to fund adult
education and skills.
The ESFA, acting as a Co-Financing Organisation for the European Social Fund
("ESF"), is procuring education and training services to meet priorities identified by
Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) area European Structural and Investment Funds
Sub-Committees. As a Co-Financing Organisation, the ESFA provides match funding at
Priority Axis level utilising sources of funding as match for ESF funded activity.
The invitation to tender is for Priority Axis 1. Priority Axis 1 supports activity to increase
participation in the labour market and thereby improve social inclusion and mobility. The ESFA wishes to make ESF Community Grants available in the form of small grants
(up to £20,000) to third sector and other small organisations for the purpose of
mobilising disadvantaged or excluded unemployed and inactive people to enable their
progress towards employment. Organisations that access grants need to be well placed
to reach excluded individuals facing barriers, which hinder their access to mainstream
provision Grants will:
engage with marginalised individuals and support them to re-engage with
education, training, or employment;
will support a range of activities aimed at assisting the disadvantaged or
excluded to move closer to the labour market by improving their access to
mainstream ESF and domestic employment and skills provision; and
will provide support to the hardest to reach communities and individuals,
especially those from deprived communities, to access employment or further
learning and training.
About the buyer
Address
Cheylesmore House
Quinton Road
Coventry
CV1 2WT
England
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