Specialist Delivery Partner for Essex Challenge Prize Approach

ECC is seeking a partner who can support the establishment of an Essex Challenge Prize approach that creates a ‘sustained model of delivery’ beyond the life of the contracted partnership.

This partner will guide and support lead officers within ECC in the scoping, design, planning, operation and evaluation of our first challenge prizes and invest in the development of in house expertise that will facilitate the use of this methodology in the future.

Additional information: Potential bidders should contact Essex County Council requesting to be invited to this tendering event by following these instructions:

1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to 'email2workspace-prod+ECC+WS489694952+huae@ansmtp.ariba.com' asking to be invited to this event and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details.

2. If you have more than one registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage.

If you are not registered on Ariba at all, go to 'http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full'

and follow the instructions to register then follow steps 1 and 2 above. (PLEASE NOTE: 35% completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100% completion.)

The supplier portal will be used throughout the procurement process, and all communications with Essex County Council relating to this procurement exercise must be via the supplier portal. The supplier portal has instructions on how to use the system and access the information as well as a helpdesk to assist Bidders.

Essex County Council reserves the right to cancel the procurement exercise and/or not to award all or part of a contract. Essex County Council will not be responsible for any costs incurred by Providers in relation to this procurement exercise.

Electronic payment will be used.