Published date: 30 May 2022

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 16 June 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Guidance and counselling services - 85312300

  • Guidance services - 85312310

  • Counselling services - 85312320

    • Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions - 85312400

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£200,000 to £600,000

Procurement reference

Grant 0491

Published date

30 May 2022

Approach to market date

16 June 2022

Contract start date

1 September 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2024

Procedure type

Other: This is a grant competition

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This summer the Home Office is looking for bids from civil society organisations for the Asylum Seeker Therapeutic Support Grant that aims to deliver trauma-informed UK wide direct stabilisation and therapeutic services for vulnerable asylum seeking adults. Such an approach will recognise the need for support with basic amenities, social connection and access to wider services alongside direct therapeutic provision. This aligns with the Home Office goal to protect vulnerable people and communities.
For the purposes of this grant a civil society organisation can include charities, charitable incorporated organisations, social enterprises, community interest companies, universities and voluntary and community groups.
Grant funding will be made available for bids ranging from a minimum of £200,000 to a maximum of £500,000 in year 1 and a maximum of £600,000 in year 2. The grant funding will be for two years, however, the Home Office will retain the option to extend the successful bidder's project for an additional year.
If regional organisations would like to bid we encourage them to do so in partnership with other organisations to ensure a UK-wide offer.
Evidence of experience in delivering the above services in partnership with those with lived experiences will be considered positively. Also, evidence of and provision for working with interpreters will be considered positively.
The target cohort for this grant are those adults (18 and above) whose appeal rights are yet to be exhausted.
Bidders will be required to outline a theory of change which identifies how the proposed activities relate to intermediate and longer term outcomes that will ultimately create a positive impact on the desired cohort of people.
The successful bidder will be required to work with the Home Office and the research partner appointed by Home Office to ensure that the evaluation of their project can contribute to wider evaluation, including sharing relevant monitoring and performance data. Measurements of success will include an ability to facilitate join-up with mainstream mental health services.
The Funding is to be awarded through a fair, open and transparent competition by means of a Call for Proposals. The competition will be administered using the Home Office e-sourcing portal.
To take part in this grant funding opportunity please see the attached Notice which provides important instructions for registration on the portal. Please read all the information in the Notice carefully.

More information

Spend profile

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Financial year Budget
2022/2023 £500,000
2023/2024 £600,000

Attachments

Additional text

The Funding is to be awarded through a fair, open and transparent competition by means of a Call for Proposals. The process leading to the award of the grant will be administered using the Home Office eSourcing portal. To take part in this grant funding opportunity please see below which provides important instructions for registration on the portal. Please read all information carefully.
If you have any questions or problems regarding registration please email RASIcommercialgrantsteam@homeoffice.gov.uk
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS
In December 2016, the Cabinet Office launched its minimum standards for government grants: These include the requirement that competition should be the default option when considering award of grant funding. To comply, the Home Office has decided to manage its competitions using their Jaggaer eSourcing portal.
• How to register?
In order to gain access to the event and documentation to bid for funding, you will need to register on the portal via the following link: https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
Bidders should be approved for usage within 24 hours of registering on the system.
After clicking on the eSourcing portal link, it should take you to the home page. On the left-hand side of this page, just below the login boxes, there is an option to register.
To register as a supplier, you will need to provide information which will include:
• the full legal name of your organisation
• your DUNS number - a unique nine-digit number provided to organisations free of charge by Dun & Bradstreet
• profile information describing your organisation and the size of your business
Once registered as a supplier on the portal please send a notification email to
RASIcommercialgrantsteam@homeoffice.gov.uk to request access to the associated documents for the grant funding. You will be given access to the event and documents once the competition formally launches in June 2022.
If you have any difficulties registering on the system, then you should contact the Supplier eSourcing Helpdesk: customersupport@jaggaer.com
The HO Jaggaer eSourcing portal is independent of other eSourcing portals. Therefore, if you have registered on the Crown Commercial Service Jaggaer eSourcing portal, you will also need to register on the HO Jaggaer eSourcing portal.
Please note that bids will only be accepted via the HO eSourcing portal. Any bids received outside of this system will not be considered by the Authority.

Please note that registering for access to the eSourcing tool will not make you a Home Office supplier. To be considered for award of funding you must first respond to an opportunity.
Once successfully registered on the system you should request access to the documents for the grant funding on the e-portal, which will include application guidance, by emailing RASIcommercialgrantsteam@homeoffice.gov.uk.

About the buyer

Contact name

Grants Commercial

Address

Lunar House -8th Floor
Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY
England

Email

RASIcommercialgrantsteam@homeoffice.gov.uk