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Published 3 Nov 2023, 10:13 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Financial Inclusion Programme · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Orbit Group Limited (Public body)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submissions closed 4 Dec 2023awarded 5 Feb 2024
Awarded to Citizens Advice Mid Mercia

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Delivery of a financial inclusion service to c5000 Orbit residents as part of Orbit’s Better Days Programme.

We are seeking to partner with a single organisation or consortium of providers with single lead provider to deliver a money advice and income maximisation service to cover our three regions of the midlands, east and south-east of England.

Case work is expected to help navigate and guide the customer through a full journey of dealing with urgent issues, developing and maintaining a budget, maximising their incomes and helping to reduce their expenditure.

Please see ProContract for full tender pack.

The contract will commence April 2024 for a period of 2 years with an option to extend for a further 1 year.

CPV: Other community, social and personal services · Provision of services to the community

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Orbit are seeking to partner with a single organisation or consortium of providers…Awarded

Orbit are seeking to partner with a single organisation or consortium of providers with single lead provider to deliver a money advice and income maximization service to cover our three regions of the midlands, east and south-east of England.

Case work is expected to help navigate and guide the customer through a full journey of dealing with urgent issues, developing and maintaining a budget, maximising their incomes and helping to reduce their expenditure.

We want to understand how you would deliver the service from referral to completion, what proactive and skills-based work you could carry out during the money advice process, what added value or innovation you could bring through your networks and experience, your credentials and quality standards, and your costs for the delivery of the service.

Area of focus:

  1. Money / debt advice with income maximization
  2. Welfare benefits advice and take-up work
  3. Telephone and online channels
  4. Face to face services including home visits for customers with additional support needs

Other services out of scope, but also part of the Better Days programme for referral purposes include energy advice, hardship grants, wellbeing support, community events, communications campaigns and skills-based training.

Orbit are running this procurement exercise through the housing e-procurement portal "ProContract". Interested suppliers should register/log-in to the portal to view the tender documents and submit their response. Any project related queries should be sent via the messaging function on the portal.

Delivery: UK
Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 70%Price: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 70
  • Price: 30
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
3 Nov 2023, 10:13 GMT
Last source update
5 Feb 2024, 12:45 GMT
Award evaluation window
4 Dec 2023 – …
Authority reference
DN697684
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-003684
Classification (CPV)
Other community, social and personal servicesProvision of services to the community
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-041186 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Submission deadline
4 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
4 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

4 Dec 2023 → 5 Feb 2024 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    4 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMT
  2. Bids opened
    4 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMT
  3. Notice published
    5 Feb 2024, 12:45 GMT

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    5 Feb 2024, 12:45 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Bids received 22 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 5 Feb 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Citizens Advice Mid MerciaSME——Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic2—£771,000 – £1,167,000

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Orbit Group Limited

Contracting authorityPublic bodyBody governed by public lawHousing and community amenities Garden Court, Harry Weston Road, Binley Business Park, Coventry, UK, CV3 2SUContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • The Royal Courts of JusticeReview body London
  • The StrandReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.