DfE - LCCC — Sales and Export Trade Development Progranmme for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council and Newry, Mourne, Down District Council

Concepts

• lisburn
• castlereagh city council
• down district council
• newry
• education and training
• sales and export trade development programme
• export trade development programme
• export trade development progranmme
• sales
• export development advice

Location

Lisburn

Description

The Sales and Export Trade Development Programme aims to offer support to 200 businesses and provide sales and export development advice to participating businesses to access new opportunities for work. All businesses on the Programme should be primed for growth and have the potential to retain and create additional employment which will result in creating more sustainable and competitive businesses, expanding the private sector and creating a world class business climate in the LCCC and NMDDC areas. The key aims of the programme are to provide one-to-one mentoring, group mentoring and exposure to support the growth of small businesses in generating sales at home and in new markets – ROI and GB; help these businesses understand better the support already available to them and to create new jobs and protect existing ones. The programme will be delivered through three separate but interlinked initiatives.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 80500000 - Training services
• 80510000 - Specialist training services
• 80511000 - Staff training services
• 80520000 - Training facilities
• 80521000 - Training programme services
• 80530000 - Vocational training services
• 80532000 - Management training services
• 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
• 79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services
• 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services
• 79411100 - Business development consultancy services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are not available.
• Performance considerations apply.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

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.