ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF HOME OFFICE FUNDING FOR SERIOUS AND ORGANISED CRIME 'PREVENT' PROJECTS AND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO REGISTER

SUBJECT: ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF HOME OFFICE FUNDING FOR SERIOUS AND ORGANISED CRIME 'PREVENT' PROJECTS AND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO REGISTER

The Strategic Centre for Organised Crime in the Home Office will shortly be seeking bids within England and Wales for a small amount of 1-year only grant funding to run serious and organised crime (SOC) Prevent pilot interventions/projects. These will run for approximately 10 months from May/June 2018-March 2019. The aims or outcomes of the intervention/project should help to stop vulnerable individuals from involvement in serious and organised crime offending. Cyber crime is excluded from consideration due to its separate programme of funding.

The bidding round will open on the 9th of March 2018. In preparation interested parties are invited to register via the online E-sourcing suite. Once the competition is live we will invite you to download the bid documents.

REGISTERING AND SUBMITTING PROPOSALS

It will take you time to register so please allow a few days to do this, and to familiarise yourself with the system. Please note that emails sent to you from the ESourcing Suite will come from the address eSourcing@ccs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk. Please ensure that your system will allow you to receive emails from this particular address.

You need to be registered as a supplier to use this system, and you then need to register yourself as a user to be able to log in. Full guidance can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esourcing-tool-guidance-for-suppliers

and an abridged step-by-step guide is provided as an attached document.

For technical assistance on use of the e-Sourcing Suite please contact, Crown Commercial Service Helpdesk: + 44 345 0103503 or email: supplier@ccs.gsi.gov.uk

Additional information: This grant funding competition is due to launch on the eSourcing Portal on the 9th of March 2018. If you would like to take part in the competition please email the following address before 5pm on the 8th of March 2018 to gain access to the bid documents on the eSourcing Portal:

amelia.simmons1@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Please note that you must already be registered on the eSourcing Portal. Instructions on how to do so can be found in this notice.