ID 2642050 DfE - Skills for Life and Work Programme

A Tender Notice
by ID 2642050 DEPARTMENT FOR THE ECONOMY

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
1 year
Value
60M
Sector
PROFESSIONAL
Published
14 Jan 2021
Delivery
To 18 Feb 2022 (est.)
Deadline
18 Feb 2021 15:00

Concepts

Location

BELFAST

Geochart for 2 buyers and 0 suppliers

Description

Skills for Life and Work professional and technical skills training provision will be offered to young people aged 16-17 (under 22 years for those with a disability and under 24 years for those from an in-care background) who normally will not possess a full level 1 qualification (defined as 4 GCSEs at grades D-G) and who have not yet gained full-time employment. Existing Training for Success contracts will expire on 31 July 2021 and an interim programme option (Skills for Life and Work) is therefore required to ensure continuity of training provision and to meet ongoing need of Entry Level/Level 1 skills provision amongst this cohort of young people. The overarching aim of this project is to ensure that a network of quality providers eligible to deliver Skills for Life and Work is in place from September 2021. It is anticipated that the Programme will be delivered by a mix of training organisations drawn from the non-statutory sector and FE statutory sector.

Renewal Options

21.1. The Award of Contract is anticipated to be May 2021 with the Initial Contract Period of one year commencing in August 2021 (where ‘one year’ pertains to the period of recruitment of participants to the programme). There will be a run-off period following the Initial Contract Period during which all Contract provisions, terms and conditions will continue to apply. This is to accommodate the participant training entitlements set out in the Skills for Life and Work Operational Requirements. Service delivery cannot commence until the first Monday of the September following Contract commencement and the programme will close to new participant entrants after 31 July 2022. There will be options to extend the Initial Contract Period for a further two periods of up to and including 12 months each, and if the Contract is extended Skills for Life and Work will remain open to new participant entrants during the extension period. Participants recruited during the Initial Contract Period or the extension period will have a Skills for Life and Work training entitlement as set out in the Operational Requirements.

Award Criteria

AC1 Teaching and Learning 25.0
AC2 Staffing 25.0
AC3 Resource Access 15.0
AC4 Leadership and Management 25.0
AC5 Partnerships 10.0
Payments from DfE - no pricing _

CPV Codes

  • 80000000 - Education and training services
  • 80210000 - Technical and vocational secondary education services
  • 80310000 - Youth education services
  • 80500000 - Training services
  • 80521000 - Training programme services
  • 80530000 - Vocational training services
  • 80531000 - Industrial and technical training services
  • 80531100 - Industrial training services
  • 80531200 - Technical training services
  • 80570000 - Personal development training services

Indicators

  • Bids should cover the whole contract.
  • Options are available.
  • Renewals are not available.
  • Professional qualifications are sought.
  • Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

The Contractor’s performance on the Contract will be regularly monitored. A Contractor not delivering on Contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a Contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of Contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of Contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the Contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance may result in the Contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for up to three years.. . The Department for the Economy (the Client) will have its own procedures in place to monitor and review each Contractor’s performance. The Client will use the outputs from these contract monitoring procedures to monitor and review the Contractor’s performance..

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