Capacity Building for Social Enterprises - Third Sector

Concepts

• health and social work
• dumfries
• third sector provision
• third sector organisations
• third sector input
• 3.increase third sector participation
• key sector specific posts
• third sector interfaces
• 3.third sector organisations
• 4.third sector organisations

Location

Dumfries

Description

This service is to increase the employability of people in Dumfries and Galloway through improving the capacity, scope, and influence of third sector provision in the region in line with Dumfries and Galloway Local Employability & Skills Partnership (LEP) vision and objective.

Total Quantity or Scope

This procurement is to build the capacity and capability of the Third Sector in Dumfries and Galloway. In working towards this aim it is also important to take into consideration the Scottish Government outcomes for Third Sector Interfaces, which are: 1. People are more involved in their community. 2.Improved cross sector collaboration. 3.Third sector organisations are better able to lead and develop shared agendas. 4.Third sector organisations are better able to respond to local need. 5.Key decision making includes third sector input. 6.Third sector organisations are better able to contribute to a strong and inclusive local social economy. The outcomes of the work enabled through funding from the LEP are: 1.Build the capability and capacity of third sector organisations to maximise the potential for employability in the working age population. 2.Capitalise on opportunities to collaborate and strengthen opportunities for employability pipeline provision across the region. 3.Increase third sector participation in delivering employability support services to address the skills and recruitment gaps in key sector specific posts. 4. Work with our local communities to develop an inclusive, thriving economy and to promote Fair Work. 5.Raise the profile and influence of the third sector as a key partner in local decision making in relation to delivering employability outcomes in the region. 6.Increase volunteering opportunities to help develop skills, build capacity, and support progression into local employability. 7.Work with partners to help eliminate child poverty by increasing employment opportunities in the third sector for unemployed candidates

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

Legal Justification

Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication 33. (1) A contracting authority may award a public contract following negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice or prior information notice in any of the following cases – (b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons – (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons. But only, in the case of paragraph (ii) and (iii), where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. Falls under the Light Touch Regime for Health and other Social , Community services

Other Information

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=772360. (SC Ref:772360)