Extension Supported Employment provision

Brighter Futures is a community-based project, which provides a wide range of learning and employment support interventions to support holistic social inclusion within Leicester and Leicestershire. We would like to commission Supported Employment provision to complement other forms of support available through the project during its extension period from 1st July 2020 and 30th December 2021. We are inviting applications from providers who are able to supply Supported Employment provision for people with common mental and physical health conditions and/or learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The provision will need to include individual health and employment action planning, advice workshops, vocational profiling, job matching and in-work support. A full description of the provision requirements is included in the attached specification and questionnaire document which is also available at https://www.business2businesslimited.com/current-partnership-opportunities. If you are interested in supplying this provision, please complete the attached specification and questionnaire document and return to Rob Gray at rob@business2businesslimited.com by the submission deadline of 11.45pm on Friday 31st January 2020.

For all clarifications, please send written queries to rob@business2businesslimited.com. A response will be given within two working days of the query being raised. Within three working days of the query being made, the questions and answers document available on the Business2Business website will be updated with an anonymised version of the query and the given response. The deadline for queries relating to this specification is 5pm on Thursday 23rd January 2020.

Responses will be scored against fixed selection and award criteria.

The following selection criteria will be used:

Tenders that do not satisfy the above selection criteria will be de-selected from the procurement process.

The following Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) award criteria will be used to score tenders that satisfy the selection criteria:

The highest scoring tender will be the winning tender. Only information supplied by tenderers in response to the questions will be taken into account during the scoring process. Please note that additional information may be requested as part of our due diligence procedures.

Brighter Futures (https://www.business2businesslimited.com/brighterfutures) is a community-based project, which provides a wide range of learning and employment support interventions to support the holistic social inclusion of unemployed and economically inactive people aged 16+ within Leicester and Leicestershire. Delivered through a partnership of local organisations, the project is funded by the European Social Fund and the National Lottery, through the Big Lottery Fund.

The project began in December 2017 and was due to end in June 2020. However, a project extension granted by the Big Lottery and Leicester and Leicestershire LEP will enable the project to continue to meet the ongoing demand and need for support from local residents.

This procurement of Supported Employment provision will be funded through the project's Community Provision Budget which was established to enable the procurement of supplementary support to meet participants' additional needs.