Provision of Delivery Associate Support for Local Authorities

Tender description

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for delivering funding of £4.8bn to Local Authorities through the Levelling Up Fund (LUF), which will support town centre and high street regeneration, local transport projects, and cultural and heritage assets. Other significant live programmes include the £3.6bn Towns Fund (which has funded Town Deals and the Future High Streets Fund competition). To maximise these investments, we are looking to provide support to LAs delivering these capital programmes to ensure they have access to the right skills and experience to mitigate delivery issues. We are looking to procure a service to establish a central technical support offer - a network of Delivery Associates (DA) (experienced delivery experts) - to troubleshoot delivery challenges and signpost LAs to the wider support offer available across government. This Pre-Tender Market Engagement (PTME) seeks information in preparation for the potential procurement of a Supplier (from hereafter referred to as a "Potential Supplier") to provide a network of experienced delivery experts to provide advice, troubleshooting and signposting to Local Authorities (LAs) delivering projects across DLUHC's Levelling Up Fund, Towns Fund and Future High Streets Fund. The purpose of this PTME is to: i help define the requirement; ii help provide a better understanding of the feasibility of the requirement; iii understand the best approach; iv understand the capacity of the market to deliver and possible risks involved; v provide the market with an opportunity to ask questions, raise queries and to enable any issues to be addressed at an early stage. vi Understand potential costs The Authority shall maintain commercial confidentiality of information received during the PTME Please contact: commercialtenders@levellingup.gov.uk with reference to "CPD4124263 - Delivery Associate Support for Local Authorities" in the Subject Line. In addition, Potential Providers may raise questions or seek clarification regarding any aspect of this PTME document at any time prior to the Response Deadline. Questions must be submitted by email to; commercialtenders@levellingup.gov.uk Please also find attached PTME document for further information.