Work Local Lone Parent (WS9) - Provision of: Work Local (Lone Parent) Programme

Tender description

This is an exciting opportunity to develop and deliver a bespoke pre-employment training and employment access solution for Lone Parents wanting to develop a pathway into sustainable employment. The Project 20,000 Work Local (Lone Parents) Programme is an enhanced and targetted employment support offer to disadvantaged Lone Parents, partnering with the council’s Employment and Skills service, DWP offices, Childrens Centres and expert training providers to deliver training solutions in community settings. We are anticipating upto 15 projects across all 10 Birmingham Districts and in particular areas of the City with the highest numbers of Income Support claimants (Washwood Heath, Yardley, Birmingham South West, Erdington and Selly Oak). Training providers will need to design and deliver bespoke pre-employment training courses offering intensive motivational, employability, understanding of the labour market, job seeking, building experience through volunteering and work experience, CV building, engagement with Jobcentre Plus offices and applying for jobs and accessing jobs. Birmingham City Council, on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (Birmingham and Solihull District), invites organisations to make an application to be considered to provide and facilitate targetted self-help support and training circles in which they will develop and deliver bespoke employability training and an employment access programme to meet the needs of the cohort. The contract has a maximum budget of £172,500 to deliver 15 training cohorts comprising a maximum of 240 training participants, and organisations can bid to deliver upto 3 cohorts. BCC will be using its e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this tender process and providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest and download details. The web address is: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/aspx/Home Registration and use of in-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function. If you are unable to register with in-tend please either email us at cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 464 8000. Your completed tender submission should be returned by noon on Friday 4th December 2015 using the Supplier Portal. For more information contact Judy Johnson on 0121 464 7737 or email judy.johnson@birmingham.gov.uk.