The Provision of Specialised Employment Support for West Lothian Parents

A Contract Award Notice
by WEST LOTHIAN COUNCIL

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
4 month (est.)
Value
£570K
Sector
PROFESSIONAL
Published
15 Jan 2024
Delivery
27 Nov 2023 to 31 Mar 2024 (est.)
Deadline
n/a

Concepts

Location

Livingston

Geochart for 2 buyers and 3 suppliers

2 buyers

2 suppliers

Description

The Scottish Government provided Local Authorities with funding under the No One Left Behind (NOLB) Child Poverty policy. This policy intends to work towards eradicating child poverty in Scotland through various means including Parental Employment Support. The contract has three lots and providers could bid for single or multiple lots. Providers were required to support eligible West Lothian parents to to gain sectorial training, work experience and specialised employability skills that will enable them to gain employment aligned to their individual skills and work expectations or progress within their current workplace.

Lot Division

1 Qualifications

The provision of training programmes with recognised qualifications in areas that are relevant to the local economy and aligned to the needs and capabilities of the clients. Qualifications were be aligned to employment opportunities within the local labour market and consider the client’s personal circumstances and family commitments. The training provided was to support the clients to progress into employment or move closer to the labour market at the end of the course.
2 Mentoring

An in-work mentor programme designed to create work placements that supported marginalised clients that required additional assistance and support in the work place. This included securing mentoring positions, liaising with the employer and providing 1 to 1 mentoring support to the client whilst undertaking the placement. Where the opportunity to progress results from the placement support were to be provided to secure this progression and for an initial settling in period.
3 Employability Support

Working alongside Access2employment service to compliment the current provision and bridge gaps to targeted niche groups of parents via the provision of a range of employability programmes. Programmes were to be designed to address client’s barriers including confidence and self-worth, lack of work experience, mental health issues etc, and they were to include support to access current income maximisation services, work placements and volunteering opportunities as a recognised means of progression for clients.

Award Detail

1 Larder (Livingston)
  • Lot 1 - Qualifications
  • Num offers: 4
  • Value: £250,000
  • Contractor is an SME.
2 Larder (Livingston)
  • Lot 2 - Mentoring
  • Num offers: 2
  • Value: £200,000
  • Contractor is an SME.
3 Street League (Paisley)
  • Lot 3 - Employability Support
  • Num offers: 6
  • Value: £120,000
  • Contractor is an SME.

Award Criteria

Quality 70.0
PRICE 30.0

CPV Codes

  • 80400000 - Adult and other education services
  • 80000000 - Education and training services
  • 80300000 - Higher education services
  • 80410000 - Various school services
  • 80520000 - Training facilities
  • 80511000 - Staff training services
  • 80500000 - Training services
  • 80530000 - Vocational training services
  • 80521000 - Training programme services
  • 80570000 - Personal development training services
  • 85312310 - Guidance services
  • 85312300 - Guidance and counselling services
  • 80510000 - Specialist training services
  • 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
  • 79634000 - Career guidance services

Indicators

  • Award on basis of price.

Other Information

Re: SPD Q3D.1, 3D.2 and 3D.3 Bidders were to answer these questions on Environmental, social and labour law in relation to compliance with the regulations covering Scotland and the UK. There were minimum requirements concerning Cyber Security for this contract, which were evaluated on a pass/fail basis. West Lothian Council is committed to maximising Community Benefits from its procurement activities. Under this procurement, the contractor, and its supply chain, were required to support the authority’s economic, social and environmental objectives relating to participation in skills development, training and employment initiatives and other value-added contributions. While the Community Benefits Information was in no way scored/evaluated/taken into account beyond the requirement that it was included in the bidder’s Tender Submission, if the Community Benefits Information contained any Community Benefits, these were accepted by the Authority via the contract variation process and were enforceable as part of the contract. Accordingly, where a contract was awarded to a bidder whose Tender Submission included Community Benefits, the bidder was required to deliver those Community Benefits as part of the contract. The buyer used PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code was 25136 . Please note that the values contained within II.2 are indicative only. (SC Ref:755260)

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