NCS Recommissioning Programme - Delivery Partner

The National Citizen Service ('NCS') Trust ('the Trust') is a not-for-profit social enterprise established to shape, support, champion and lead a thriving National Citizen Service.

NCS Trust is implementing a new service delivery model across 9 regions, running a number of procurements to replace the current supplier contracts.

This procurement is seeking multiple Delivery Partners to deliver the NCS programme in three regions (London, South West, North East), who have the capability to deliver at a minimum number of 117 Programme places.

Key responsibilities include:

- Plan NCS Programme activities and logistics for all phases - Recruitment and training of a seasonal delivery workforce - NCS programme delivery - Manage safeguarding, health and safety and incidents - Optional end-to-end delivery and recruitment

The Contract Term is up to 78 months and includes 3 Programme delivery years with 2 optional one year extensions. Contracts are anticipated to commence in July 2019, with the first delivery period in Summer 2020.

Estimated contract values Lot 1 - London Lot 1 (Redbridge, Havering, Barking & Dagenham) - £3.2M - £18M Lot 2 - London Lot 2 (Bexley, Bromley) - £1.5M - £12M Lot 3 - London Lot 3 (Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames) - £1.6M - £13M Lot 4 - London Lot 4 (Merton, Sutton, Croydon) - £2.8M - £16M Lot 5 - London Lot 5 (Enfield, Haringey, Barnet) - £3.2M - £18M Lot 6 - London Lot 6 (Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney) - £3.2M - £18M Lot 7 - London Lot 7 (Camden, City of London, Islington, Kensington And Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith And Fulham) - £1.7M - £13M Lot 8 - London Lot 8 (Wandsworth, Lambeth, Southwark) - £2.3M - £15M Lot 9 - London Lot 9 (Harrow, Brent) - £2.3M - £15M Lot 10 - London Lot 10 (Greenwich, Lewisham) - £1.8M - £13M Lot 11 - London Lot 11 (Ealing, Hillingdon) - £2.6M - £16M

Lot 12 - North East Lot 1 (County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland) - £3.5M - £19M Lot 13 - North East Lot 2 (Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland) - £2.4M - £15M Lot 14 - North East Lot 3 (Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesborough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees) - £1.7M - £13M

Lot 15 - South West Lot 1 (Bournemouth, Dorset, Poole) - £1.9M - £14M Lot 16 - South West Lot 2 (Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, City of, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire) - £2.9M - £17M Lot 17 - South West Lot 3 (Cornwall, Plymouth, Isles of Scilly) - £2.2M - £14M Lot 18 - South West Lot 4 (Devon, Somerset, Torbay) - £3.7M - £20M Lot 19 - South West Lot 5 (Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire) - £3.7M - £20M

The estimated values include the 2 optional extension years and additional potential services and contracted places. This is for guidance on the minimum and maximum thresholds only.

Potential Supplier's are only permitted to respond to the NCS Recommissioning Programme Recruitment Partner procurement OR the Delivery Partner procurement.

Additional information: The contracts to be awarded by the Trust under this procurement exercise will be subject to the 'light touch regime' pursuant to Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the 'PCR 2015') and as a result the PCR 2015 apply as limited to those provisions.

The estimated contract value for all Lots is anticipated to be between £48M and £299M for all Lots and includes the two optional extension years. These estimated values are not guaranteed expenditure and the Trust considers that the actual costs of the Contract may be less than the maximum value set out here.

Procurement documents, including details of the procurement process, evaluation criteria and key dates are available via the e-sourcing portal, Bravo. Interested parties should register on Bravo to access documents via the URL below.