Edinburgh's Blended Employability Services

Concepts

• edinburgh
• edinburgh's blended employability services
• edinburgh council’s business growth and inclusion
• vocational training
• edinburgh council’s business growth
• employability services
• third party services
• edinburgh residents
• blended employability services
• additional service provision

Location

Description

Edinburgh Council’s Business Growth and Inclusion (BG&I) Team works with internal and external partners across the City to promote inclusive growth. The Council funds third party services to support Edinburgh residents in accessing and progressing along the Scottish Government’s Employability Strategic Skills Pipeline with the goal of securing and sustaining training and employment. These services are designed to complement national delivery and provide a local response to needs identified. Edinburgh's Blended Employability Services has been developed to complement national provision and provide a range of localised options for those who require support. This has been split into 4 contract requirements, each with their own targets and focus. It is anticipated that European Social Funds (ESF) or any equivalent replacement funding such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be used to partially fund additional service provision.

CPV Codes

• 80530000 - Vocational training services

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Additional Funding to Lot 2 Supported Employment Good Afternoon, At Full Council Committee on 27th May 2021, it was agreed that an additional 400,000 GBP per annum would be added to the Lot 2 Supported Employment contract opportunity. As a result of this, the specification has been updated in section 5.2 only. A new version of the specification has been uploaded (final v2 020621). Please ensure that if you are applying for Lot 2, that you adjust your bid accordingly (pricing schedule and cost breakdown) to ensure that the additional expectations of 400,000 GBP are reflected. In addition, this will have an impact on the ESPD requirements and the exclusion grounds in the contract notice. In particular as per Page 17 of the Instructions to Tenderers will now require for Question 4B.1 Lot 2 Tenderers are required to have a minimum "general" annual turnover of 2,720,000 GBP for the last two financial years.