Innovation Fund Administrator - Embedding Children’s Rights in Public Services

Concepts

• administration services
• innovation fund
• glasgow
• external service provider
• embedding children’s rights in public services
• grant funding programme
• innovation fund administrator
• children’s rights
• public bodies
• provision of fund administration services

Location

Glasgow

Description

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of fund administration services. The service provider will be required to develop, establish and administer a grant funding programme (the Innovation Fund) that will stimulate improvement and innovation activity supporting the process of embedding a child rights based approach in public bodies and supporting the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into public services.

Total Quantity or Scope

The objectives of this Contract include, but are not limited to the following: - To set up and administer an Innovation Fund - To provide support and guidance to interested parties to access these funds via the application process - To deliver pre-funding activities which include pre-application engagement, application sifting, eligibility checks, due diligence, development of a grading process, and setting up the Fund from June 2022 - Develop a decision making process which include representation from Scottish Government and children/young people - To administer 2 rounds of funding, between July 2022 and March 2024 and associated pre- and post-funding activities, with a round of awards made within each financial year of the period. - To administer the eligibility, due diligence and grading process in a robust and independent way.

Renewal Options

Option to extend the contract for an additional 12 months beyond the initial term.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 75100000 - Administration services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Financial restrictions apply.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Award on basis of price.

Other Information

The Single Procurement Document (Scotland) is a standard qualification questionnaire supplied by Scottish Ministers for all regulated procurements. The SPD (Scotland) is used to self-certify for the minimum requirements to tender for this contract opportunity and will be scored on a Pass/Fail basis. Individual questions that form the Quality award criteria will be scored using the following methodology: 0 - Unacceptable; 1 - Poor; 2 - Acceptable; 3 - Good; 4 - Excellent. The lowest total tender price will be awarded 100% of the score available for Price. The Price score for the remaining Tenderers will be relative to the lowest total tender price. NOTE: The buyer is using PCS-Tender to carry out this procurement process. The project code is 21329 and the ITT code is 44397. Please note this is a separate website and if you are not already registered, you will be required to do so. To access PCS-Tender, record your interest in this notice and access the tender documentation please visit https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk. Please search for the project Code under PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers and use the Search/Filter function then the Project Code from the dropdown list. Please note that once you have expressed interest in the PQQ/ITT it will move to your My PQQs/ITTs area. For further information on using PCS-Tender, please read the Supplier Response Guide: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/esop/pts-host/p... The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 21329. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 (SC Ref:692735)