ID 3093404 Invest NI — Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council — LED Programme — Alchemy 3

Concepts

• causeway coast and glens borough council
• management consultancy
• coleraine
• glens borough council
• key aim of alchemy
• invest ni
• alchemy
• causeway coast
• aspects of the alchemy programme
• training programme

Location

Coleraine

Description

The Council is seeking to appoint a contractor to deliver two aspects of the Alchemy Programme: 1) one-to-one mentoring; 2) skills development workshops. The key aim of Alchemy is to help businesses access the support they need through provision of high-quality information with a sound diagnosis of their business issues and the development of an appropriate Action Plan. The brokerage to third party mentors is the recognised best practice for Council to provide the business client with the right solution.

Total Quantity or Scope

The key aim of Alchemy is to help businesses access the support they need through provision of high quality information with a sound diagnosis of their business issues and the development of an appropriate Action Plan. The brokerage to third party mentors is the recognised best practice for Council to provide the business client with the right solution.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The client may at any time before the completion of the contract period invite the contractor to agree to extend for any period up to and including 12 months commencing from the termination date of the original contract period.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services
• 79411100 - Business development consultancy services
• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 80500000 - Training services
• 80510000 - Specialist training services
• 80521000 - Training programme services
• 80530000 - Vocational training services

Indicators

• Options are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

This is a fixed price contract. The funding model for this contract is GBP 205 600 ex VAT for the initial contract period. In order to meet contract delivery requirements, the daily rate is set at GBP 400 excluding VAT. Contract monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on this contract will be managed as per the specification and regularly monitored (see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 — Contract Management — Procedures and Principles). Contractors 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 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 notice of unsatisfactory performance and this contract may be terminated. A central register of such notices for supplies and services contracts will be maintained and published on the CPD website. Any contractor in receipt of a notice of unsatisfactory performance will be required to declare this in future tender submissions for a period of 3 years from the date of issue of the notice. It may also 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.