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:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Service Design of Business Support to Social Businesses in Wales

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

We would like to contract with an individual or organisation to work with us to review and re-design our business support service using the Design Council’s Double Diamond model or a similar model. In line with the Design Council model we want to undertake a series of phases of work:

• Discover. We want to work with our clients, prospective clients, staff and key stakeholders to understand fully what service is needed in future.

• Define. From the insight gathered from the discovery phase we want help to define the challenge in a different way if appropriate.

• Develop. We want to work with you to help us consider the range of answers to the clearly defined problem, seeking inspiration from elsewhere in the UK and abroad and co-designing with a range of different people.

• Deliver. We want to test out different solutions at small-scale, rejecting those that will not work and improving the ones that will.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=106947.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

Four phases of work with a budget no higher than £20,000, excluding VAT

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

All bidders should provide evidence of adequate levels of professional indemnity insurance.

To be successful a bidder must score a minimum of 300 in the "Ability to Meet Requirements" and "Credible and Practical Approach" sections of the RFQ.

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

RFQ WCC SDBS21

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

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

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

(WA Ref:106947)

Relates to the following project/programme financed by EU Community Funds: Social Business Wales ERDF West Wales and the Valleys

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice