Provision of Residential Experiences

National Citizen Service Trust ((the “Authority”) is seeking to appoint up to two suppliers each delivering approximately 11,500 Residential Experiences for young people per annum. The Residential Experiences are trips away from home, where young people are taken out of their usual context and engage in youth-led project-based challenges that deliver NCST strategic outcomes for young people as follows:

• Life skills & independent living;
• Employability & work readiness; and
• Volunteering & social action (which enables social mixing)

The purpose of this Contract Notice is to invite potential suppliers to:

• Tender for Lot 1 (Provision of Residential Experiences in North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands )
• Tender for Lot 2 (Residential Experiences in West Midlands, South West, East of England, South East and London )

The Contracting Authority reserves the right to award a single contract for both Lots, the details of the process of which will be provided in the invitation to tender.