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title: "Employability Flexible Framework"
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# Employability Flexible Framework

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employability-flexible-framework-ocds-h6vhtk-044731). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Dumfries and Galloway Council: "Employability Flexible Framework". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 9 published lots. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Dumfries and Galloway Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/dumfries-and-galloway-council-ons-s12000006)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 9
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services
- **Delivery Location:** UKM92
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-044731`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employability-flexible-framework-ocds-h6vhtk-044731#tl-md)

## Description
Dumfries and Galloway Council on behalf of the Local Employment and Skills Partnership (LEP) require a contractual mechanism to procure and contract different projects in response to external funding that is received.
Dumfries and Galloway Council are looking to establish a Flexible Framework for Employability Services.

## Lots (9)
### Lot 1: Referral, Assessment & Engagement
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Providing services that engage early with individuals​ from the relevant community.
Introducing employment, volunteering, FE, HE, training and other outcomes​. Helping to gain confidence to access mainstream (or relevant specia...

### Lot 2: Needs Assessment and Barrier Removal
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Providing services that provide information, encouragement and help to overcome barriers.​ Liaise constructively with relevant services in terms of specific support needs, barriers and opportunities affecting that individual.

### Lot 3: Work Preparation and Vocational Training
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Providing services that are client centred to offer vocational training activities to enable people to attain the industry specific skills and competencies required in particular occupations aligning with labour market needs.

### Lot 4: Employer Engagement and Job Matching
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Providing services to arrange work or volunteer placements.​
Actively engaging with employer engagement teams and employer recruitment incentives (ERIs) to ensure that they are both accessible and being accessed by the individu...

### Lot 5: In Work Support
- **Lot id:** `5`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Providing services that support people to maintain or progress in employment and to address in- work poverty.

### Lot 6: Multi Stage and End to End
- **Lot id:** `6`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Commissioning providers to provide services that deliver any combination of stages 1-5​
Commissioning end to end (stages 1-5)

### Lot 7: Personal Development
- **Lot id:** `7`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Providing services that complement activities across any of the stages.

### Lot 8: Specialist Health, Disability and Recovery
- **Lot id:** `8`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Providing services to support unemployed, inactive or workless people within D&G who have a physical, mental, sensory or learning disability, or long-term health condition, to move into appropriate, sustainable employment, by p...

### Lot 9: Innovation
- **Lot id:** `9`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Still to be finalised:
Interventions required in response to emerging demand, changes in the environment for example economic or political, or requirements that do not fit within the other lots.

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F007652-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-03-11T11:49:55.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T03:45:30.939Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-044731