Traineeship Programme

NCH invites you to tender for our new Traineeship, which will replace our current traineeship ?One in a Million? scheme. This will initially run as a pilot with a view to assessing delivery against core objectives after the first intake.

Traineeships have been designed to provide targeted support for unemployed 16-24 year olds to support them to get an Apprenticeship or sustainable job. The key components of a Traineeship include:

1. Training in English and Maths/functional skills
2. Core employability skills
3. A high quality work experience placement (100 hours)

NCH will support our contractors with their Corporate Social Responsibility along with enhancing internal and external initiatives already in place. The Traineeship programme supports the Nottingham City Council?s priorities and Neighbourhood Regeneration Strategy to: ? Increase the skill levels of local residents, and in particular to increase the number of people achieving a Level 2 qualification.

? Reduce youth unemployment

There are two key focusses to the Traineeship which must be taken into consideration. These are:

? the numbers of Nottingham City Homes tenants and residents accessing the provision and moving into sustainable employment as a result. ? support of the Nottingham City Homes Women in Construction initiative and an increased number of women entering into a construction related role.

The contract period will be for the period one year with the option to extend for a further one year subject to funding and satisfactory performance.

Additional information: Please note suppliers must have Level 2 Ofsted accreditation and must obtain funding for both groups themselves prior to tendering and shall be solely responsible for this.

Tenders must be completed and submitted electronically by uploading the documents through the East Midlands e-Tendering portal via the automatic link from where the document was downloaded at https://www.eastmidstenders.org by the due date and time.

All questions related to the tender opportunity should be sent to the procurement team using the discussions button located in the tender opportunity through the East Midlands e-Tendering portal at https://www.eastmidstenders.org The button can be found on the right hand side of the screen, and will list all previous discussions also for reference.

Questions must be received by NCH Procurement Team no later than 15:00 hours Wednesday 4th May 2016. Questions received after this time will not be answered.

Completed tenders must be uploaded by 14:00 hours on Friday 6th May 2016 to be considered for evaluation via the East Midlands e-Tender portal https://www.eastmidstenders.org.

The portal will automatically close at 14:00 hours any documents uploaded into the system after this time will be deemed late and will not be accepted.