ID 4170229 DfE - SRC - Provision Of Student Counselling Services To The Northern Ireland Colleges Of Further And Higher Education

Concepts

• guidance and counselling
• northern ireland colleges of further and higher education
• belfast
• antrim
• omagh
• londonderry
• newtownards
• newry
• southern regional college
• provision of student counselling services

Location

NEWRY

Description

Southern Regional College (SRC) wishes to appoint a Contractor for the provision of Student Counselling Services to the Northern Ireland Colleges of Further and Higher Education. Please see document entitled “ID 4170229 – Specification” for more details.

CPV Codes

• 85312300 - Guidance and counselling services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.

Other Information

This Contract is expected to commence in July 2022 for an initial period of 36 months until 30 June 2025 with options to extend for two further periods of 12 months each. Neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. Contract Monitoring: The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with PGN 01/12. 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 the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance will 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 a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the notice. The Authority expressly reserves the rights: (I) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; (II) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition; (III) to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and (IV) to award contract(s) in stages. In no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates. This project will be used to progress the Government’s wider social, economic and environmental objectives.