UK-Hyde: personal development training services

Contract Award

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   HYDE
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:257906-2009
Publication Date:   Sep 18, 2009
Buyer:   TAMESIDE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   TAMESIDE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL
HYDE  
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.tameside.gov.uk

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2280 - Contract award
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 180/2009, #257906-2009
Referenced Document Number: 89498-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Contract awards
Type of Bid Required: Not applicable
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender
Successful Bidder: NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: Employment and Regeneration Partnership trading as Work
Solutions, Lee House, 90 Great Bridgewater Street, UK-Manchester M1 5JW.
E-mail: Info@work-solutions.org.uk. Tel. +44 1612332680.

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CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Tameside Metropolitan Borough
Council, Rydal House, Rydal Avenue, Attn: Richard Scarborough, UK-Hyde
SK14 4QB. Tel. +44 1613664300. E-mail:
richard.scarborough@tameside.gov.uk. Fax +44 1613664347.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.tameside.gov.uk.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Regional or local authority.
General public services.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
UK-Tameside: tameside working neighborhood commissioning model delivery.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 27.
II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): TMBC wish to
appoint a provider under a single contract to deliver GBP 2 million
Working Neighbourhoods Funded provision up until March 2011. An option to
extend the project beyond March 2011 will be built into the contract which
will be subject to further funding being secured and subject to
performance target being met. The aim of the provision is to support
workless residents in Tameside's four Priority Regeneration Neighbourhoods
in developing their skills and employability and to place them into
sustainable employment.
We are looking to develop a strong partnership relationship with the
successful provider and to work with them and other local partners to
develop effective interventions to achieve the above aim. We expect the
successful provider to have a wealth of experience in delivering similar
provision and for them to be at the forefront of innovation in the sector.
Tameside have developed a WNF Commissioning Strategy for the entire three
year programme (which ends March 2011). The tendering of this contract
represents the final stage of the strategy. The strategy includes a
Commissioning Model, an Outcome Payment Structure and a set of fundamental
Guiding Principles to which the successful Provider will be expected to
demonstrate a commitment towards both in the tender documentation and
ongoing delivery.
Spatial Focus: the proposal is to focus WNF on Tameside's four Priority
Regeneration Neighbourhoods (PRNs) of St Peter's, Smallshaw Hurst, Denton
South and Hattersley. These are the areas of Tameside which are most
affected by unemployment in that they have the greatest concentration of
Super Output Areas which have more than 25 % of their working age
population on out of work benefits (an LAA outcome). Focusing on this
spatial level will allow greater community engagement and build on the
years of successful partnership working in these areas.
Outcome-focused Client Journey: many workless people face multiple
barriers to work, including housing problems, poor health, issues related
to alcohol or drugs or a history of offending. People from minority ethnic
groups may face discrimination, some people will have limited English and
parents will have childcare needs. If entrenched worklessness is to be
effectively addressed the Commissioning Strategy needs to recognise that
some workless residents are a long way from being job ready and may have
numerous issues to resolve before work or training is considered; this
needs to be reflected in commissioning and in performance management.
Outcomes need to be devised to represent clients progress along a
continuum measured in distance travelled rather than in hard outputs.
Payments to providers also need to reflect the client journey, resulting
in an outcome rather than just funding volume activity.
Crucially, the Commissioning Model needs to acknowledge that acquiring a
job is not the end of the journey but one of its stages and that remaining
in that job is equally important. There is a wealth of evidence that
suggests workless residents who find work often return to claiming out of
work benefits within a relatively short space of time. Being retained in
sustainable employment is a major outcome and needs to underpin the
Commissioning Strategy.
Personalised Support: there is no single intervention that is likely to be
suitable for all workless people. Their individual backgrounds and needs
vary.
Interventions are more effective if they take into account the starting
point of the individual. The subsequent provision needs to be flexible and
responsive to meet individual client needs. Effective assessment and
diagnosis of those needs and a tailored package of help are fundamental to
an outcome-focused, personalised approach.
Clients Furthest from the Labour Market: Active outreach to engage those
who are furthest from the labour market has proved to be effective in
helping workless people. Those in the hardest to reach groups could
include: those reluctant to engage with mainstream provision such as
Jobcentre Plus those unable to travel to mainstream provision because of
disability, cost, transport difficulties or childcare those with language
difficulties members of minority ethnic groups who find it difficult to
engage with official bodies and prefer to trust members of their own
community those who are reluctant to engage with activities that do not
take place in a local, familiar environment where they feel comfortable.
Providers will be incentivised to work with these groups of people (often
they are those who have multiple barriers to employment) rather than
"cherry-pick" those who are easier to engage with and place into work.
The award of the contract will be in keeping with a Best Value approach
which will jointly evaluate quality factors and price. A half day
information sharing seminar on the Commissioners vision for the service
and the financial model will be held on 21.4.2009 at 1:30 pm at Broadoak
Community Centre, Broadoak Road, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8RP.
All documentation must be completed and submitted electronically by using
Vault through BiPs Delta-ets by the due date of 15.5.2009 at 12:00 hrs.
Tender submission packs will follow week commencing 15.6.2009 for those
organisations shortlisted. The closing date for tender submissions is
27.7.2009. Short listed organisations will be invited to give a
presentation as part of their submission week commencing 10 August 2009.
Documents are available via the Delta Suite; go to www.delta-ets.com The
tender access code is 04t646834If you are experiencing problems, please
contact the Delta helpdesk at helpdesk@delta-ets.com or call +44
8452707050 for further assistance.
If you are interested in tendering for the above contract but are unsure
about the electronic tendering process, or require further information on
the information sharing seminar, please contact in writing: Kim Greeves,
Joint Commissioning and Performance Management Team, Rydal House, Rydal
Avenue, Hyde. SK14 4QB or email kim.greeves@tameside.gov.uk.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 80570000, 80500000,
80530000, 80000000, 79632000, 80510000.
II.1.6) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
No.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of
1. Cost. Weighting: 40.
2. Quality. Weighting: 60.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
TITLE: UK-Tameside: contract for the provision of working neighbourhoods
fund delivery.
V.1) DATE OF CONTRACT AWARD: 1.9.2009.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 4.
V.3) NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: Employment and Regeneration Partnership trading as Work
Solutions, Lee House, 90 Great Bridgewater Street, UK-Manchester M1 5JW.
E-mail: Info@work-solutions.org.uk. Tel. +44 1612332680.
V.4) INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT Initial estimated total value of
the contract:
Value: 2 000 000 GBP.
Excluding VAT.
Total final value of the contract:
Value: 2 000 000 GBP.
Excluding VAT.
V.5) THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED: No.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY
COMMUNITY FUNDS: No.
VI.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: GO reference: GO 09091612.
VI.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 16.9.2009.
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