Employability Support Services Ranked Framework East Renfrewshire Council

East Renfrewshire Council is inviting tenders from suitably qualified companies to support individuals from disadvantaged groups and assist them to move towards and into employment. This has to start with greater focus on early engagement, assessment of support needs and effective action planning to more effectively tackle barriers that are preventing individuals from participating in the labour market.

Services being sought will include support to address personal attributes that prevent people from considering work as an option. This includes motivation, confidence personal development, one to one support, mentoring, group work core skills health wellbeing and financial support interventions. It is envisaged that some structured, accredited and project based activities will also be required.

Suppliers will be appointed across 9 lots Ranked Framework with 4 suppliers appointed to each lot.

This Lot reflects the increased need for in-work support to help enable previously unemployed people to sustain and progress in employment once the initial transition has been made. It is also important to recognise that many individuals will enter this activity at Stage 4 of the Employability Pipeline having progressed from previous activities delivered at Lots of the framework.

Contractors will be required to demonstrate continuous improvement and evaluation of quality and effectiveness and impact of their service. Depending of the subject area some formal measurement tools can be used. Contractors are required to undertake participant evaluation and provide results to East Renfrewshire Council. Ranked Framework with 4 suppliers appointed to each lot.. Quality weighting above are sub weighting and the overall weighting for quality is 60.

As per the procurement regulations from 1 January 2022 there is a need to include VAT where applicable when calculating the estimated value of contracts please refer to tender information pack on PCSt for all values including and excluding VAT

Bidders should note that all questions relevant to this exercise should be posted using the Message Board facility for this project.

Please ensure that all documentation is read thoroughly.

Please note that the dates on this notice are indicative and subject to change.

All values indicated are indicative figure only and no guarantee is given with regard to the Council’s overall uptake of any resulting

contract.

Bidders are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time and date of 5TH May 2022 to avoid any last minute problems.

East Renfrewshire Council reserves the right inline with Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, to modified any awarded contract without a new procurement procedure.

This is a ranked framework A maximum of 4 contractors will be appointed to lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . The contractor ranked 1st will be given the opportunity to provide the service required. Where the contractor ranked 1st is unable to meet the requirements then the opportunity will be offered to the 2nd ranked supplier and so on. There will be no guarantee given with regard to the Council’s overall uptake of any resulting Framework.