DUD- Contract for Provision of Resettlement & Community Integration Support in Dudley

This agreement relates to the provision of resettlement support and community integration services to families accepted under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme or similar schemes. The Council is seeking a community based provider to assist in the provision of support and particularly community integration. The Service will therefore need to have or develop excellent knowledge of and relationships with local communities.The Service will support families to adjust to life in Dudley and promote their independence, working at all times in a whole family way. Families will need intensive support initially, reducing gradually over a period of one to five years as they become able to use universal and non specialist services and increase their independence. Learning the English language will be key, and the Service will be required to provide suitable conversation classes in the home in support of classroom tuition

Additional information: This exercise is being conducted in electronic format (e-tender). If you wish to take part please register withDudley MBC e-tendering website www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk and use the Register / Sign In button whichis located on the left-hand side of the page and complete the registration forms. Following registration, an e-mail will be sent to you advising of your user ID along with a reminder of your e-mailaddress and password. Details of the project are located under the All Opportunities link which is also where you can express an interest and receive the documentation. Once you have done this you must log back into the website using the details provided following registration and locate the contract document under Tenders, My Tenders on the menu. The Tender should be received no later than Monday 12.3.2018 at 12:00 and will be available for download until 23:59 hours on Sunday 11.3.2018. URL: www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk

To access documents bidders are required to register with the website. This may be done in 2 ways:

1. Use the Register/Sign In button located on the Home screen, or,
2. Find the project under the All Opportunities link and use the Express Interest button.

Companies who have previously registered with the website will be invited to input their login detail.

Once an expression of interest has been accepted by the system, Users MUST log back into the system to access documents. Now they will appear under the My Tenders tab.

Further assistance with the system may be obtained by contacting the System Administrator on:

• telephone: 01384 812683, or email: contracts@dudley.gov.uk

Guidance documents are also published under the Help screen which can be found on the home screen at:

www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk

The Council expressly reserves the right:

1. Not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;
2. To make whatever changes it sees fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition;
3. To award contracts in respect of any parts of the requirement covered by this notice, and;
4. To award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the Council be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No