Youth education services

Tender description

The Trust is seeking to set up a number of contracts with capable Local Delivery Partners (LDP’s) for the provision of delivery of the National Citizen Service (NCS) Programme in the SW2 (made up of the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset) region. The resulting contracts for delivery of the services will commence with autumn 2018 programme delivery and will run throughout 2019. The contract will include the unilateral option for the Trust to extend the contracts for a further period(s) totalling one year. The National Citizen Service ("NCS") was set up by government in 2011 to tackle some of the biggest social challenges in the UK. Through a wide range of community programmes and projects for young adults, it looks to build social cohesion, mobility and engagement. The Trust is seeking to set up a number of contracts with capable Local Delivery Partners (LDP’s) for the provision of delivery of the National Citizen Service (NCS) Programme in the SW2 (made up of the counties of Devon, Cornwall and Dorset) region. The resulting contracts for delivery of the services will commence with autumn 2018 programme delivery and will run throughout 2019.The trust anticipates delivering approximately 7000-8000 places through the initial contract period. The contract will include the unilateral option for the Trust to extend the contracts for a further period(s) totalling one year. The Local Delivery Partners (LDPs) will have the option to tender for either: 1) End to end delivery — End to end delivery of the NCS programme comprises of all the Pre-programme and Delivery of programme elements details below. 2) Delivery of programme — Delivery of the programme. From the “keep warm” element onwards. The Trust is utilising the Light Touch Regime under Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the PCR 2015") in order to request expressions of interest from interested suppliers with a view to entering into contracts with the NCS Trust in order to run pilot innovation projects. The contracts to be awarded by NCS Trust under this procurement exercise will be subject to the "Light Touch Regime" pursuant to Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the "PCR 2015") and as a result the PCR 2015 apply as limited to those provisions. Nothing within this Contract Notice or any other document issued pursuant to this procurement exercise shall be construed as meaning that the full scope of PCR 2015 applies nor is it intended in any way to create a contract (express or implied) that NCS Trust is conducting the procurement exercise in accordance with the full application of the procedure referred to within this Contract Notice, or PCR 2015. In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the above NCS Trust has modelled this procurement exercise broadly on the Open process, however it is not bound by regulations in relation to the operation of this procurement exercise.