Functional support

Tender description

OCS as part of DCMS is looking to secure a supplier to deliver a programme that will primarily aim to: a. Produce a report on the potential for public service mutuals (PSMs) to form partnerships to bid for work. b. Promote and on a draw down basis provide, support for PSMs to consider and/or develop bidding partnerships with other organisations. These other organisations could include other public service mutuals, VCSEs, or other privater sector organisations. The contract value range will be between 200 000 GBP to 315 000 GBP to include the potential extension. OCS as part of DCMS is looking to commission a Supplier to deliver: a) A published report on the potential for public service mutuals (PSMs) to form partnerships to bid for work, including the scope, challenges and merits of doing so. b) Promote, administer and, on a ‘draw down’ basis, provide professional advice and assistance to to help PSMs consider and, where appropriate, prepare to bid for contracts in partnership that they would be unable to bid for alone (for example, due to lack of size, balance sheet strength and/or scope of service expertise). c) Materials to share lessons learnt from the programme. We will be open to ideas from the market, but anticipate these will include: a tool-kit, mentoring and workshops on formation of collaborative models by PSMs. d) An evaluation of the impact of the programme, and lessons it generated. The contract value range is 200 000 GBP to 315 000 GBP to include the potential contract extension.