Official UK procurement notice
NAC/5057 Housing Advice, Advocacy and Education Service
Authority: North Ayrshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Ayrshire Council (the Council) provides advice and information to prevent homelessness and to assist homeless households to understand their rights, by providing an accredited in-house advice service within the Housing Services Homeless Advice Team (HAT). This free advice service is available to anyone over the age of 16 and is tailored to meet to individual needs and circumstances.
Delivery of an independent advice, advocacy and information service across North Ayrshire will enhance the existing in-house provision and ensure the Council meets its statutory obligations. There is likely to be an increasing need for advocacy as indicated by an aging population and levels of deprivation.
As part of the latest Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group (HARSAG) recommendations, during the current coronavirus pandemic the service should ensure communication is accessible to everyone to obtain advocacy.
The Council requires to contract a Service which can provide independent advice, advocacy and information provision for households at risk of homelessness. The Service Provider must also advocate on behalf of homeless people throughout the homelessness process, assisting them to enforce their statutory rights. As homelessness is not only a housing issue, we are looking for the Service Provider to adopt a pro-active approach to preventing homelessness. The Council therefore requires the Provider of this Service to develop and deliver educational packages for the 9 secondary schools within North Ayrshire in addition to youth groups and colleges, to support the commitment of the Council to prevent youth homelessness and raise the awareness of the reality of homelessness and to address the increase in homeless presentations from young people to prevent future homelessness from this group.
CPV: Other community, social and personal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£227,253
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 40
- Price: 60
- Suitability
If required, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
Where it is required, within a bidder’s country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service.
Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships.
- Economic & financial standing
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly “specific” turnover of 151,502 GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
North Ayrshire Council reserve the right to review the bidders financial information including information from credit reference agencies at tender stage and throughout the life of the contract, and seek clarifications if necessary. If clarifications are not satisfactory the bidder may be excluded from the tender process.
Bidders who cannot meet the required level of turnover will be excluded from this tender.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 5MGBP
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf ↗
Public Liability Insurance 5MGBP
- Technical & professional ability
Bidders will be required to provide a minimum of 2 examples of services carried out in the past 3 years that demonstrates they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of the Contract Notice. The services must be of a similar value, size and scope.
Unsatisfactory experience will result in exclusion from the tender process.
Bidders will be required to provide 2 satisfactory references for the same 2 services contracts on the reference templates provided. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar value, size and scope. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
Completed experience and reference templates must be zipped and uploaded at question 4C.1 of the qualification envelope.
Bidders will be required to confirm the supplier's staff have the following relevant educational and professional qualifications:
Scottish National Standards (Information and Advice) Type III
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Feb 2021, 16:32 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Jun 2021, 15:55 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 23 Apr 2021 – …
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-013237- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-028f7aFind a Tender
Publisher note: Lots are not being used for this tender for the reason(s) stated below: Nature of the contract not suitable for lots. (SC Ref:656910)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 23 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 23 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST
Timeline
22 Feb 2021 → 11 Jun 2021 · 4 dates- Next notice expected22 Feb 2021
- Submission deadline23 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened23 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST
- Notice published11 Jun 2021, 15:55 BST
Notice history
5 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Mar 2021- Published value published: £227,25319 Mar 2021, 09:16 GMT
- Status changed to active19 Mar 2021, 09:16 GMT
- Procurement method changed19 Mar 2021, 09:16 GMT
- Deadline published: 23 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST19 Mar 2021, 09:16 GMT
- Status changed to complete11 Jun 2021, 15:55 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAP GroupSME | £227,253 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 013237-2021-1 · CHAP GroupSME
- Signed
- 11 Jun 2021
- Value
- £227,253
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 1 electronic | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Kilmarnock Sheriff CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- CHAPAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.