CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

WDT 179 - Understanding Eating Disorders

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly County Borough Councils provide a joint Workforce Development Team service for the whole Social Care Sector within Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly geographical boundaries. The team provide learning and development opportunities to the Social Care Sector in Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly.

The Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Workforce Development Team is seeking to enter into a contract for the training provision of Understanding Eating Disorders

The target audience for this training is Social Work Practitioners and Support Workers working in Adult Services.

The training opportunity you are invited to tender for includes the following learning outcomes:

•To understand what an Eating Disorder is, and learn to be aware of signs and symptoms

•To look at key facts and figures and causes and risks

•To have an awareness of concurrent conditions, and have an overview of recovery and treatment available and look at managing physical health

•To learn about the brain and emotional processing, myths and misunderstandings

•To gain a knowledge of key interventions

•Be able to look at case studies and gain further information of where to access support

A minimum of one (1) session and a maximum of ten (10) sessions, to be delivered between October 2019 and March 2022.

The course is full day in duration.

Number of delegates per course: 25 (approx.)

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=94532

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly County Borough Councils provide a joint Workforce Development Team service for the whole Social Care Sector within Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly geographical boundaries. The team provide learning and development opportunities to the Social Care Sector in Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly.

The Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Workforce Development Team is seeking to enter into a contract for the training provision of Understanding Eating Disorders

The target audience for this training is Social Work Practitioners and Support Workers working in Adult Services.

The training opportunity you are invited to tender for includes the following learning outcomes:

•To understand what an Eating Disorder is, and learn to be aware of signs and symptoms

•To look at key facts and figures and causes and risks

•To have an awareness of concurrent conditions, and have an overview of recovery and treatment available and look at managing physical health

•To learn about the brain and emotional processing, myths and misunderstandings

•To gain a knowledge of key interventions

•Be able to look at case studies and gain further information of where to access support

A minimum of one (1) session and a maximum of ten (10) sessions, to be delivered between October 2019 and March 2022.

The course is full day in duration.

Number of delegates per course: 25 (approx.)

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

This Procurement exercise is being run by the Authority's e-tendering portal Bravo Solutions https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk. Tender documents are only available via the Bravo Solutions portal and by no other means. Companies must be registered on the Bravo Solutions portal to gain access to documents. Registration to this site is free of charge.

Tender documents are accessible up until the 6th September 2019 with clarifications allowed until 17:00 on the 30th August 2019.

Deadlines for submissions being 12 noon on the 6th September 2019.

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

itt_76227

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

Welsh

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council is administering this procurement opportunity electronically via the Etenderwales portal.

All documentation has been uploaded to enable direct access following registration.

NB: You must download all documentation directly from the portal, tender documents will not be communicated by any other means.

E-Tender access information:

— Go to https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk.

— The first person from your Organisation to use the Platform will be required to register on behalf of the

Organisation.

— Registration involves accepting a User Agreement, and providing basic information about your

Organisation and about the User performing the Registration.

— On registering on the Platform the User will select a Username and will receive a password.

— The Password will be sent by e-mail to the e-mail address that was specified in the User Details section of the Registration page.

— In order to log-in to the Platform please enter your Username and Password.

— Note: If you forget your Password then visit the homepage and click ‘Forgot your password?’.

— Registration should only be performed once for each Organisation.

— If you think that someone in your Organisation may have already registered on this Platform then you must NOT register again.

— Please contact the person who Registered (i.e. the Super User) in order to arrange access to the Platform.

— Contact the Helpdesk immediately if you are unable to contact the Super User (for example if they have left your Organisation).

Please contact the Helpdesk to gain access to the Platform.

— The Help desk is available Monday-Friday: 8:00-18:00.

Telephone: +44 8003684852 e-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk

How to find the ITT:

— Once logged in you must click on ‘ITT's Open to all Suppliers'.

— The etender references for this contract are: Project_33002 and ITT_76227.

— Click on the title to access summary details of the contract. If you are still interested in submitting a tender, click the ‘Express an

Interest button'. This will move the ITT from the ‘Open to all Suppliers' area to the ‘My ITT's' on the home page.

— You will then see the full details of the ITT in the qualification, technical and commercial envelopes along with all relevant documents

in the ‘Attachments' area.

— Should you have any questions on the ITT, please use the ‘Messages' area to contact the buyer directly.

— Do not contact the named person at the top of this notice.

- Tenders must be uploaded to the Etenderwales / Bravo Solution portal by no later than 12:00 noon 6th September 2019.

(WA Ref:94532)

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Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice