Official UK procurement notice
NAC/5192 North Ayrshire Employability Service Delivery Framework Reissue
Authority: North Ayrshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought4 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThis procurement seeks to appoint a framework of business partners to support the delivery of the Councils employability service.
The services required will be as follows:
-Lot 1: Parental employment support service
- Lot 2: Youth transition/engagement/support service
- Lot 3: Transitional/volunteering service
- Lot 4: Individual Placement Support (IPS)
One supplier will be awarded per lot.
Please note, this is a re-issue of previously advertised services.
- Recurrence: 2028
CPV: Job search services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 4 suppliers · 2 bids on the busiest of 4 lots (0.5 per place) · 4 appointed (full)
Lots and requirements (4)Procurement structure
4 lots · all with a published value · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Parental employment support serviceAwardedRenewalPublished value£1,490,000
This lot is focused on addressing child poverty by supporting parents progress into employment and progress within employment.
Service required should provide:
- Key worker support
- Service tailored to individual need
- Flexible and responsive services
- Clear focus on progression across 5 stage pipeline
- Targeted at parents who have children in poverty
- Progress parents into vocational programmes and placements
- Works in partnership and across partnerships
The contract will be awarded using NAC's Conditions of Contract for the Purchase of Services.
Lot #2Youth transition/engagement/support serviceAwardedRenewalPublished value£590,000
This lot is focussed on supporting young people making transitions from school and youngsters who are not in employment, education on training. We are looking for a mix of services to include:
- Community outreach approach to engage youngsters who don’t engage with services
- Key worker support to engage with youngsters and provide 1-2-1 support as required
- Programmes to address confidence, resilience, isolation, basic skills for employment
- Strong partnership working with education, skills development Scotland, Ayrshire college and wider employability services
- Using data from datahub to target services
The contract will be awarded using NAC's Conditions of Contract for the Purchase of Services.
Lot #3Transitional/volunteering serviceAwardedRenewalPublished value£470,000
Providing work experience and volunteering placements for participants who are long term unemployed is an important step to make a sustainable progression into employment. Placements may be in:
- Third sector
- Public sector
- Private sector
- Community organisations
Providers will also be expected to provide wrap around employability support prior to a during placements
The contract will be awarded using NAC's Conditions of Contract for the Purchase of Services.
Lot #4Individual Placement Support (IPS)AwardedRenewalPublished value£392,000
Closing the disability employment gap remains a high priority in North Ayrshire and an IPS model delivered with full fidelity will complement the successful Supported Employment initiative, Equal Programme, already delivered by North Ayrshire Council.
The contractor would be expected to work closely with Ayrshire & Arran NHS and develop their IPS capacity and capability by working in partnership working with clinical teams. This will target individuals with severe and enduring mental health issues but have capacity to extend this model to support those in recovery from drug addiction, those with experience of domestic violence, commercial sexual exploitation or homelessness. The contractor will develop and strengthen referral and networking connections with Health, Justice, Social Work, and Housing as well as with specialist services supporting the target groups adopting the IPS model.
The contract will be awarded using NAC's Conditions of Contract for the Purchase of Services.
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 50
- Price: 50
- Suitability
Where it is required, within a bidder’s country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service.
Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships
- Economic & financial standing
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly “general” turnover as per below for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
Lot 1 - 745,000 GBP
Lot 2 - 295,000 GBP
Lot 3 - 235,000 GBP
Lot 4 - 196,000 GBP
Bidders who cannot meet the required level of turnover will be excluded from this tender.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 10m GBP in respect of any one event
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf ↗
Public Liability Insurance 10m GBP in respect of any one event
Professional Indemnity Insurance 5m GBP in the aggregate
- Technical & professional ability
Bidders are required to provide 2 examples of services carried out in the past 3 years that demonstrates they have the relevant experience to deliver the services described in the Contract Notice. The services must be of a similar value, size and scope. Unsatisfactory experience will result in exclusion from the tender process.
Bidders must also provide 2 satisfactory references for the same 2 contracts on the reference templates provided. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar value, size and scope. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
Completed experience and reference templates must be zipped and uploaded at question 4C.1 of the qualification envelope.
Bidders are required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
Bidders who intend to subcontract more than 25% to any individual organisation must ensure the SPD (Scotland) - Subcontractors Supplier Response is completed and uploaded at question 2D.1.2 of the qualification envelope.
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “NAC/5192 North Ayrshire Employability Service Delivery Framework Reissue” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 4 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · 2028
- First published
- 8 Aug 2024, 16:07 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2024, 10:59 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 9 Sept 2024 – …
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-035885- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-048913Find a Tender
Publisher note: Quality Management Procedures 1. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent) or a documented policy regarding quality management, see attachment at SPD question 4D.1. Health and Safety Procedures 1. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in accordance with ISO 45001 (or equivalent) or have, within the last 12 months, successfully met the assessment requirements of a construction-related scheme in registered membership of the Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) forum or the bidder must have a regularly reviewed and documented policy for Health and Safety management, see attachment at SPD question 4D.1. Bidders 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. (SC Ref:782134)
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 9 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 9 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
Timeline
9 Sept 2024 → 6 Nov 2024 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown9 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened9 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
- Notice published6 Nov 2024, 10:59 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete6 Nov 2024, 10:59 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast4 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Parental employment support service
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2024
- Value
- £1,450,974
- Status
- active
Youth transition/engagement/support service
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2024
- Value
- £589,815
- Status
- active
Transitional/volunteering service
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2024
- Value
- £458,413
- Status
- active
Individual Placement Support (IPS)
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2024
- Value
- £382,929
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Parental employment support service | 2bids · 2 electronic | 2 | — | — |
| 2 · Youth transition/engagement/support service | 2bids · 2 electronic | 1 | — | — |
| 3 · Transitional/volunteering service | 1bids · 1 electronic | 1 | — | — |
| 4 · Individual Placement Support (IPS) | 2bids · 2 electronic | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Kilmarnock Sheriff CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
4 commercial parties on the notice- Barnardos ThreadsFramework contractor
- SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health)Framework contractor
- The Ayrshire Community TrustFramework contractor
- The Lennox PartnershipFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.