Connect to Work Programme - Delivery Partner

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is launching Connect to Work programme (formerly known as Universal Support), an employment programme aimed at assisting disabled individuals and unemployed people with complex needs in securing employment.

Central London Forward (CLF), hosted by the City of London Corporation, has been appointed as the accountable body for the Connect to Work programme in central London.

CLF is a strategic sub-regional partnership encompassing the local authorities of: Camden Council, City of London Corporation, Hackney Council, Haringey Council, Islington Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth Council, Lewisham Council, Southwark Council, Tower Hamlets Council, Wandsworth Council, Westminster City Council.

To effectively deliver the programme in line with DWP requirements, there is a need for a Delivery Partner to undertake the work on behalf of Camden Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City Council and partially for Haringey Council and Lambeth Council. The City reserves the right to extend the service in part or in full to the rest of the councils under CLF noted above should the need arise. Equally it reserves the right to reduce the requirement depending on DWP or other factors.

The duration of the agreement is up to 5 years only.

Additional information:

This tendering exercise was undertaken using the electronic tendering system https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com. Suppliers needed to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.

The estimated total value of the contract was stated in the opportunity notice and was exclusive of VAT and for the entire duration together with all potential future needs as described within the tender documents.

The procurement was ran as a one stage process under the open procedure and therefore, if your organisations who participated in this tender exercise, did so by completing and returning the Qualification Envelope and the Invitation To Tender (ITT) questionnaire which was found on the City's e-procurement portal at: https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com with the Reference number: prj_67 or itt_50.

Organisations submitted their completed Qualification Envelope and Invitation to Tender(ITT) questionnaire together with any supporting documents, via the system by the return deadline in order to participate and registration was free. No submission was accepted after the return deadline.

Economic operators were solely responsible for their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of their tender submissions and all stages throughout the procurement. Under no circumstances was the contracting authority liable for costs or expense borne by the economic operators.

The procurement process that applied to the requirement was specified in the procurement documents accordingly.

7. total submissions was received which was then evaluated and moderated in comparison to the published criteria and Seetec was awarded the contract.