Official UK procurement notice
SLC Training and Employability Framework
Authority: South Lanarkshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe 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.
CPV: E-learning services · Education and training services · Higher education services · Secondary education services · Technical and vocational secondary education services · Technical secondary education services · Vocational secondary education services · Youth education services
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Health, Wellbeing and Emotional Supports
The Council are seeking providers who can deliver a range of services designed to address specific issues relating to health, financial and wellbeing and specific barriers including debt and financial issues, mental and physical health issues including but not limited to: -
-support to improve health and fitness.
-activities designed to increase engagement and confidence including arts and crafts and cultural input.
-counselling and mental and physical health supports
-advice and guidance relating to alcohol and drug misuse.
-financial advice and support.
-therapeutic interventions.
-specialist supports and interventions
Lot #2Sector/Vocational and Employability Skills Training (Accredited or non accredited
Services to be provided under this Lot will cover all industry sector specific training, whether vocational accredited or non-accredited qualifications.
The qualifications can be vocational qualifications and accredited and non-accredited training.
The services will be tailored to individuals who require re-skilling or up-skilling support, those who require job specific skills to meet employer needs, those with multiple barriers.
It is expected that individuals accessing the Services to be provided under this Lot will have the opportunity to obtain Scottish and National Vocational Qualifications in line with SCQF, ISCED and industry standards.
Providers in this Lot will be expected to provide all essential Personal Protective Equipment to allow this training to be safely undertaken.
For some call off contracts awarded under this Lot there may be a requirement for the provider to hold the relevant qualifications/accreditations to provide the services. This possible requirement is referred to in the Specification”
Lot #3Holistic Employability - End to End Services
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.
Lot #4Employability Delivery Support Services
Providers appointed to this Lot will be expected to provide disparate but key services that are not contained within the other Lots. Those services will support the awareness raising, delivery and monitoring of employability services including but not limited to:-
-Video, information films and promotional clips for
social media services;
-Provision of supports/editing to prepare lived
experience video diaries and case studies;
-Qualitative research evaluation supporting the
development of employability services;
-Social media development services to promote
employability service delivery
-Miscellaneous services – any employability services
aspect not already covered in one of the other Lots
Lot #5ACE Rural (Access Choices & Employment)
this will be a call off from Lot 3 of the Framework
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: 80
- Price: 20
- Suitability
SPD Question 4A.1 Trade Register
It is a requirement of this Framework that if the bidder is UK based they must hold a valid registration with Companies House. Where the bidder is UK based but not registered at Companies House they must be able to verify to the Councils satisfaction that they are trading from the address provided in the tender and under the company name given.
If the bidder is based out-with the UK they must be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade register appropriate to their country as described in Schedule 5 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
SPD Question 4A.2 Authorisation/Membership
Where it is a requirement of a specific training course that the training organisation is accredited to be able to issue qualification certification, this service will be made a requirement under some future mini competitions.
Note however, not all training will require a qualification to be issued upon completion of training.
This is not a mandatory requirement of every training delivery, but this information will inform as to supplier accreditation to issue qualifications.
Applicants should indicate if they are accredited to issue qualifications, and which qualifications they are accredited to issue in SPD Question 4A 2.2.
- Economic & financial standing
SPD Question 4B.4 Economic and Financial Standing
The Council will use the following ratios to evaluate a bidders financial status:
Profitability – this is taken as profit after tax but before dividends and minority interests. If a company makes a profit then it is a pass for this ratio;
Liquidity – this is calculated as current assets less stock and work in progress, divided by current liabilities. If the answer is greater than or equal to one then it is a pass for this ratio
Gearing – this is calculated as the total external secured borrowing (short term and long term) divided by shareholder funds expressed as a percentage. If the answer is less than or equal to 100% it is considered a pass for this ratio.
Bidders must provide the name and value of each of the 3 ratios within their response to SPD question 4B.4.
The Council requires bidders to pass 2 out of the 3 financial ratios above.
Where 2 out of the 3 ratios cannot be met, the Council may take the undernoted into consideration when assessing financial viability and the risk to the Council, providing that the Bidder can supply evidence to substantiate any of the mitigating criteria when requested to do so. The following list is not exhaustive and other criteria may be considered where proposed by a bidder as mitigating factors:
Would the bidder have passed the checks if prior year accounts had been used?
Were any of the poor appraisal outcomes "marginal"?
Does the bidder operate in a market which, traditionally, requir…
- Technical & professional ability
SPD Question 4C.1.2 Technical and Professional Ability
Bidders should provide 3 relevant examples of services of a similar size and nature to the services in each of the lots they are bidding for which they have delivered in the last 3 years. (No more than one page of A4 Arial 11 for each example is sought)
The details should include but not be limited to:
to whom training was delivered, including quantities for training and
qualifications gained / not gained;
the training delivered and qualifications gained;
duration and content, including how content was adapted to meet
participants’ needs;
steps taken to keep target group on track to gain the qualification;
Monitoring and evaluation of delivery
How delivery can be adapted to meet the challenges of moving to post-
pandemic delivery involvement of the participants in planning /meeting
outcomes;
Bidders should provide 3 relevant examples for each of the individual lots they are bidding for evidencing their organisation’s track record of delivery.
Technical and Professional Ability (Sub-Contracting)
Applicants will be required to confirm if they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
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…
Minimum: SPD Question 4D.1 Quality Assurance Schemes It is a mandatory requirement of this DPS that applicants hold the following quality standard(s) or accreditation(s): either ISO 90001:2015 Quality Management System or an equivalent independently verified quality standard Or The Applic…
- Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “SLC Training and Employability Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, 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
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 1 Jul 2021, 16:34 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Jul 2021, 16:34 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 2 Aug 2021 – …
- Authority reference
SLC/PS/FINCOR/20/114- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-015115- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02c27fFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s)for review procedures:
In Scotland, the alternative review body is
Court of Session
Parliament house
Parliament Square
Edinburgh
EH1 1RQ
+44 1312252595
Publisher note: 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. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 38783. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361 A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361 A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Bidders will be invited to detail the specific community benefits the they will deliver in relation to any call off contract awarded to them under this Framework”. Examples of Community benefits are available within the tender documentation. (SC Ref:648308)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 2 Aug 2021, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 2 Aug 2021, 12:00 BST
Timeline
1 Jul 2021 → 2 Aug 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published1 Jul 2021, 16:34 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown2 Aug 2021, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened2 Aug 2021, 12:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- European UnionFunder
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Hamilton Sheriff CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.