SLC Training and Employability Framework

The Council are seeking to establish a multi Lot - Multi Provider Framework. The focus of the Framework will be on equipping individuals with the flexible support, training and skills they require to prepare for, enter and remain in employment, education, training or volunteering and provide support for individuals who are in employment but are in receipt of low incomes and likely to be living in poverty.

Providers in this Lot will be bidding to deliver an end to end programme and will be expected to deliver activity at all stages of the employability skills pipeline.

Services to be provided under this Lot will include a holistic employability service provided to individuals on an employability journey.

This will include key interventions at each stage of the employability skills pipeline. Employability delivery will be customised to meet the needs of employers, supporting new recruits and individuals seeking sustainable employment.

End to end delivery will focus on participants from entry via referral, responding to a marketing campaign etc. and will support them for a period to undertake and progress through the stages of the employability pipeline to achieve key outputs and outcomes, with the aim at the end of the provision of the Services of having entered work /education/training or volunteering (full or part time).

The programme of activity should be customised to customer/target groups and employers across the stages of the pipeline.

SPD Question 2.C.1 Reliance on the capacities of other entities

Applicants are required to complete a full SPD for each of the entities whose capacity they rely upon.

Subcontractors on whose capacity the applicant does not rely:

Applicants who are successful in joining the Framework will be asked whether they intend to subcontract within the ITT. A shortened version of the SPD covering the exclusion grounds will require to be completed by each Subcontractor so identified and

uploaded within the ITT Technical Envelope.

Exclusion Criteria

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public

Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

SPD Questions 3A – 3C have been identified as mandatory exclusion grounds and SPD Questions 3D have been identified as discretionary exclusion grounds. All the exclusion grounds will be assessed on a PASS/FAIL basis. For the mandatory exclusion grounds

an application to join the Framework will be excluded where the applicant fails to provide either a positive response or to provide details to the satisfaction of the Council of the self cleansing measures undertaken. For the discretionary exclusion grounds an application may be excluded where the applicant fails to provide either a positive response or if the Council is not satisfied as to the self cleansing measures undertaken.

Declarations and Certificates

The applicants recommended to join the Framework will provide the undernoted certificates, declarations and/or completed questionnaires to evidence their compliance with the relevant questions within the Qualification Envelope.

All certificates, declarations and questionnaires can be found within the Attachment area of PCS-T.

ESPD Question 2D.1 Prompt Payment Certificate

ESPD Questions 3A.1 to 3A.8 Serious and Organised Crime Declaration

ESPD Question 3A.6 Modern Slavery Act 2015 Declaration

ESPD Question 3D.3 Human Rights Act Declaration

ESPD Question 3D.11 Non-Collusion Certificate

ESPD Question 4B.5.1 Insurance Certificates

ESPD Question 4C.6 Protection of Vulnerable Groups

In the case of this open tendering procedure this information will be requested by the Council when applicants are recommended for

award to the Framework prior to the issue of any mini competitions under the Framework.