Education and training services

Tender description

The Purchasing Authority proposes to create a Framework of Employability Support Service Providers to assist individuals or groups, experiencing barriers, to progress towards sustainable employment. Activity will be distinguished between short-term and long-term provision, dependent on the assessed needs of the client. Providers can bid for either or both Lots and the Call-Off Contracts from the Framework will be as demand requires with no guarantee of particular volumes of clients. Please note the Purchasing Authority views this requirement as a Part B Service as defined by the former Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012, Regulation 5, hence the timetable not complying fully with the minimum requirements and further that the Purchasing Authority will however be voluntarily following the mandatory standstill period prior to award. Short-term employability support, on a ‘self-help’ basis, for individuals or groups to encourage them to engage in positive employability activity. This will help address barriers to employment and enable clients to acquire new skills to enable them to improve their competency level in the labour market. Longer-term, more sustained assistance for individuals assessed as having more complex histories of disengagement. Clients will benefit from intensive, integrated support to address a range of issues across multi-stages of the pipeline. This will be a Co-investment programme which will require the provider to identify match funding resources.