Youth Employment Gateway Programme Development

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council is looking to receive quotations from suitably qualified bidders to develop a website for the Liverpool City Region Employment and Skills team that will meet the requirements of the Youth Employment Gateway Programme as detailed in the specification. For a full specification for this opportunity, please register you interest. Once you have done this, you will need to go back into 'My Opportunities' then find Knowsley MBC then locate this opportunity. Click on the blue hyperlink (usually the contract ID) this will take you into the response wizard. The contract will run for an initial one year period from 1st May 2015 to 30th April 2016 with an option to extend for further 3 x 12 month extensions at the discretion of the local authority. PLEASE NOTE: This request for quotation will be marked on 60% Quality and 40% Price. Suppliers are advised to clarify any points of doubt or difficulty relating to the documentation before submitting their response. Any queries should be submitted through the question and answer function via The Chest (Pro-Contract) e-tendering system. Please refer to previously asked questions before asking a question as duplicate questions will not be answered. Both questions and answers will either be made public on The Chest or responded to directly to the originator depending on the content. It is your responsibility to ensure that the completed submission is uploaded successfully on The Chest by the deadline specified below: Deadline for Questions in relation to this RFQ: Wednesday 15th April 2015 at 5:00pm Deadline for Submission of this RFQ: Friday 17th April 2015 at 9:30am Proposed Demonstration date for this RFQ: Thursday 23rd April 2015 Website Launch Date: Wednesday 30th September 2015 Bidders must ensure that all documentation is received on time. Please bear in mind fluctuations in connectivity or the uploading of larger documents can mean that the process takes longer than anticipated. Any questionnaires submitted or submitted incomplete by the stated deadline time and date will be discarded. It is the responsibility of the bidder to meet the deadline. In submitting your quotation you agree to contract on the Council's own terms and conditions. Due to the Council's obligations of fairness and equal treatment to all bidders it cannot accept amendments to its terms and conditions or alternative terms and conditions. If you seek to amend the Council's terms and conditions or submit alternative terms and conditions the Council may reject your quotation.

Additional information: This opportunity is advertised via Due North 'The Chest'; which is a North West portal for tender/business opportunities. Please use the link below to register for free and you will be able to download the documentation and receive alerts for future opportunities within your commodities; https://www.the-chest.org.uk