Stakeholder Engagement And Facilitation Services (SEAFS) and Training Framework

Tender description

The EA want to appoint contractors to a framework to help support our work with stakeholders. These framework contractors will help EA staff plan, facilitate and evaluate effective stakeholder engagement processes relevant to our work. Lot 1: We are looking for experienced engagement professionals who: a. are specialists and leaders in the fields of engagement and facilitation: bringing with them engagement and facilitation knowledge, experience and contacts from a range of sectors to help us continuously improve our Working With Others engagement approach. Our contractors must also have the learning and development capabilities to coach, train and mentor our people to learn and apply new approaches. Contractors must be committed to evaluating engagement and transferring learning back into our Working With Others Engagement Advisor network and in-house Facilitation network. b. provide us with more advanced engagement capabilities, including independent facilitation: helping us do increasingly complex and sensitive engagement through the design and delivery of participative and deliberative engagement processes. Both online and in person. Our SEAFS contractors must be able to act as highly competent, independent facilitators and successfully facilitate high conflict situations. c. provide us with extra engagement capacity: to enable us to support, advise, coach, mentor and train more of our people to plan, deliver and evaluate engagement to at least the same standard as our in-house engagement advisors. Environmental change has a significant impact on people's lives. We work with others to reduce the risks to people and properties from flooding; make sure there is enough water for people and wildlife; protect and improve air, land and water quality and apply the environmental standards within which industry can operate. Acting to reduce climate change and helping people and wildlife adapt to its consequences are at the heart of all we do. We cannot do this alone. We need to work closely with a wide range of partners including government, business, local authorities, other agencies, civil society groups and the communities we serve. How we work with others is critical to our success. We need to listen to them, understand their views, concerns and priorities to help us make the best decision for the environment and people. We also need to motivate them to take action to improve the environment or protect them from flooding. A particularly high priority for us is improving the way we collaborate and develop partnerships to meet shared goals. Helping our staff to do this is essential over the life of EA2025 – our corporate strategy. The contract is to secure experienced engagement professionals to provide support to EA employees involved in working with stakeholders. This is not a public relations, communications or marketing contract. Instead we are looking for contractors who can help enhance the Environment Agency’s reputation through enabling us to build strong and effective relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders. Additional information: Market engagement event The purpose of the event is to provide an overview of the SEAFS Framework, provide a summary of the services the EA is looking to re-tender, explain the procurement process and timelines. The event will take place online, on 04th May 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 BST. To register for the event, please register your interest via bravo, see Section VI: Complementary information.