Innovation Fund Administrator - Embedding Children’s Rights in Public Services

Tender description

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of fund administration services. The service provider will be required to develop, establish and administer a grant funding programme (the Innovation Fund) that will stimulate improvement and innovation activity supporting the process of embedding a child rights based approach in public bodies and supporting the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into public services. Lot 1: The objectives of this Contract include, but are not limited to the following: - To set up and administer an Innovation Fund - To provide support and guidance to interested parties to access these funds via the application process - To deliver pre-funding activities which include pre-application engagement, application sifting, eligibility checks, due diligence, development of a grading process, and setting up the Fund from June 2022 - Develop a decision making process which include representation from Scottish Government and children/young people - To administer 2 rounds of funding, between July 2022 and March 2024 and associated pre- and post-funding activities, with a round of awards made within each financial year of the period. - To administer the eligibility, due diligence and grading process in a robust and independent way.