CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Other (Please specify) Further Education College

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Across the Liverpool City Region.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The Enterprise Hub is seeking to procure suitable Community Delivery Partners to support the continued development and implementation of an integrated enterprise support services in Liverpool City Region (LCR). Enterprise Hub Community Delivery Partners will enable and improve;

— the capability of individuals who are considering starting their own business to be equipped with the personal financial knowledge and know how to help them establish and sustain their personal and family income levels in the early phase of their enterprise venture and on an ongoing basis;

— overall business sustainability resulting from greater financial resilience and capability of the new entrepreneur;

— access to a range of advice services to support people moving into self-employment or starting their own business with a variety of issues personal budgeting and better of calculations, financial planning, transitioning from welfare benefits, access to state support in the initial period of business startup e.g. Council Tax, housing benefit and mortgage interest and universal credit / working tax credits;

— the confidence levels of people thinking of enterprise as an employment option by ensuring that they can make informed choices and have realistic minimum income forecasts and expectations;

— connectivity to local public and community based services to help create the operational conditions to support more residents to become economically included;

— to improve connection with other support systems such as primary and public health and housing;

— the breath and quality of the Enterprise Hub model to reflect the needs of client's accessing Enterprise Hub services;

— programme awareness and reach within individual neighbourhoods across Liverpool City Region;

— delivery of pre-start up and enterprise support within individual neighborhoods across Liverpool City Region;

— programme awareness and reach with specific target groups across Liverpool City Region for example; people who have suffered domestic abuse, people who experience mental ill health and distress and people who benefit from specialist support services;

— alignment with other support services that will facilitate residents social and economic inclusion and support enterprise creation e.g. Money Advice Service, Energy Efficiency Advice and Health and Well Being Initiatives;

— integration with other key mainstream services e.g. Domestic Abuse, Housing, Community Health and GP services

Enterprise Hub is a comprehensive community engagement, enterprise promotion and business support programme, which fosters the creation of new enterprises from pre-start to early stage businesses and social enterprises. It achieves this through delivering an innovative package of services which helps prepare individuals considering creating an enterprise or a social enterprise. Enterprise Hub deploys a number of measures and community development approaches including community outreach, awareness raising, advice, workshops, mentoring and network development to provide a holistic model of support. In addition, it is now seeking to expand its Community Partner collaborative to ensure that it is meeting client need and achieves additional community and neighbourhood reach and added value.

Enterprise Hub provides support to a diverse target group of potential-entrepreneurs living in LCR including men, women, employed and unemployed residents, BME and disabled residents and graduates mapped against the LCR Combined Authority footprint and based on specific local authority geography.

Enterprise Hub is led by the City of Liverpool College (CoLC) who are acting as accountable body and The Women's Organisation who are acting as managing partner. Enterprise Hub is part funded through the European Regional Development Fund.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

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

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

Enterprise Hub Project, part funded through the European Regional Development Fund.

VI.3)

Additional Information

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice