Tender for Greater Cambridge Partnership Apprenticeship Service
The service being procured will be responsible for making a substantial contribution to the GCP’s target of 420 additional apprenticeship starts by 2020.
United Kingdom-Cambridge: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
2018/S 242-552929
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Shire Hall
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
United Kingdom
Contact person: Mr Chris Nunn
Telephone: +44 3450455200
E-mail: contracts@milton-keynes.gov.uk
NUTS code: UKH12
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.lgss.co.uk/about/
I.2)Information about joint procurement
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
The Greater Cambridge Partnership Apprenticeship Service
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
The Greater Cambridge Partnership is committed to substantially increasing the number of successful, high-quality apprenticeships across Greater Cambridge. The service being procured will be responsible for making a substantial contribution to the GCP’s target of 420 additional apprenticeship starts by 2020.
This service will work with employers to promote apprenticeships and provide ongoing support. The service will help businesses develop a more detailed understanding of the positive impact apprenticeship schemes can have on business and wider business growth.
In doing so, the service will work to provide practical examples of how employers have overcome barriers and explain how apprenticeships can be designed around the skill needs of the business. There will be a focus on working with existing educational establishments that are supporting young people and local businesses.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The Greater Cambridge Partnership is committed to substantially increasing the number of successful, high-quality apprenticeships across Greater Cambridge. The service being procured will be responsible for making a substantial contribution to the GCP’s target of 420 additional apprenticeship starts by 2020.
This service will work with employers to promote apprenticeships and provide ongoing support. The service will help businesses develop a more detailed understanding of the positive impact apprenticeship schemes can have on business and wider business growth.
In doing so, the service will work to provide practical examples of how employers have overcome barriers and explain how apprenticeships can be designed around the skill needs of the business. There will be a focus on working with existing educational establishments that are supporting young people and local businesses.
The service will shape its programme of activity so as to directly support business, schools and potential apprentices to actively engage in apprenticeship programmes and support them to understand the benefits of doing so. As part of this, the service will operate across sectors vital to the further growth of the Greater Cambridge economy and demonstrate the benefits apprenticeships offer in supporting access to work, training and social mobility therefore demonstrating what an important role apprenticeships play in supporting continued economic growth.
These services will actively engage with businesses, particularly those in, but not limited to, the following sectors:
— construction,
— teaching,
— academia,
— cleantech,
— agri-tech,
— creative and digital,
— life sciences,
— IT (particularly software programming and data analytics),
— advanced manufacturing,
— food and drink manufacturing,
— logistics and warehousing,
— social care,
— financial services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
It is anticipated that following the expiration of the contract that it will be re-procured subject to an evaluation as to the success of the project.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.4.1)Review body
One Angel Square, Angel StreetNorthampton
Northampton
NN1 1ED
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1604366465
E-mail: pwhite@northamptonshire.gov.uk
VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures
Royal Courts of England and Wales, The Strand`
London
WC11 2LL
United KingdomInternet address: http://www,judiciary.gov.uk/you-and-the-judiciary/going-to-court/highcourt
VI.4.3)Review procedure
The Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar days standstill period at the point information on the award of the Contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the Contract is entered into. Such additional information should be requested from (refer to address in Part I.1). If an appeal regarding the award of contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Chapter 6) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules, to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly. Where a Contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may order the ineffectiveness of a contract where serious breach has occurred in addition to any fine, the Court may instead provide for alternative penalties, either contract shortening, fines or both.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: