The Provision of Universal Youth and Play Services

Concepts

• provision of universal youth and play services
• education and training
• city of london corporation
• universal youth and play services
• service will commission
• youth work
• universal youth
• provision of universal youth
• play services
• young people

Location

Description

The City of London Corporation (the 'City) is undertaking a 1 stage procurement process in relation to Universal Youth and Play Services (the 'Service'). The Service will commission youth work and play activities from an external organisation, which will adhere to the youth work and play principles and will raise the aspirations of children and young people aged 8-19, with an emphasis of working with children and young people aged between 8-12 and 13-19 year old's. The Service will also support young people aged up to 25 with learning difficulties and or disabilities, or are a care leaver to achieve their potential. The duration of the contract is two (2) years, with the option to extend up to two (2) further years in annual increments. The Contract is intended to commence 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2024

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.
• Contract is suitable for VCOs.

Other Information

This procurement process is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system 'Capital eSourcing' (url:www.capitalesourcing.com). Organisations interested in providing the Service under this procurement, project reference: prj_COL_17378 must register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free. This is a one stage procurement process; therefore, suppliers will need to register an interest on the system and submit a tender submission no later than 12.00 on 31.01.2022 in order to participate. The contracting authority reserves the right at any time to vary the timescales in this notice, cease the procurement process and not award the contract or to award only part of the opportunity described in this notice.If the contracting authority takes up any of these rights then it will not be responsible for, or pay the expenses or losses, which may be incurred by any candidate or tenderer as a result. Economic operators are solely responsible for their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of their tender submissions and all stages throughout the procurement. Under no circumstances will the contracting authority be liable for costs or expense borne by the economic operators. The Service advertised in this notice fall under the services listed in Annex XIV to Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and the contracting authority is not obliged to follow The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in full. The procurement process that will apply to the Service is specified in the procurement documents accordingly. The requirements of the Service are set out in the procurement documents, particularly the Service Specification - available from: https://www.capitalesourcing.com Organisations should also note that the budget for this Service is up to 400,000 GBP and is based on a core budget of c100,000 GBP per annum. Organisations should be aware that due to the contract value (of the Service), any contract formed as a result of this procurement process shall be executed as a deed. Organisations should seek independent legal advice on the implications of this prior to submitting their tender, where appropriate. Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the Capital eSourcing system. Link to eSourcing Portal http://www.capitalesourcing.com