Description of the goods or services required
Evaluation of the GO Wales: Achieve through Work Experience programme (April 2016 to March 2019)
Tender reference: T08HE/2016/17
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) wishes to let a contract for the evaluation of the GO Wales: Achieve through Work Experience programme.
GO Wales: Achieve through Work Experience is the name given to two European Social Fund (ESF)operations for which HEFCW is the lead beneficiary and project manager. The operations are part funded by ESF under the 2014 to 2020 round of structural funding. There is an operation in West Wales and the Valleys and a replica operation in East Wales, both funded under the Youth Attainment Priority (Priority Axis 3) Specific Objective 2.
The Programme is intended to contribute to a reduction in the number of young, higher education students in Wales at risk of not being in education, employment or training (NEET) when they complete their higher education course. For more information about GO Wales: Achieve through Work Experience go to www.gowales.co.uk
We are interested in receiving tender submissions from organisations with:
• experience or knowledge of evaluating ESF funded projects or operations
• experience or knowledge of evaluating or projects or operations similar in nature to GO Wales : Achieve through Work Experience
• experience or understanding of project / programme evaluation generally
The aim of the contract is to carry out two linked evaluations of the Achieve through Work Experience operations. The two evaluations will be an initial evaluation focused mainly on process and improvements, and a second evaluation focused mainly on outcomes. The evaluations will cover both the West Wales and the Valleys and the East Wales operations.
We anticipate that the contract for this work will be awarded during April 2017 and will run until March 2019. We expect the initial evaluation to be concentrated around the period April to September 2017 and the second evaluation to be concentrated around the period March 2018 to March 2019.
Award of this contract will be subject to a satisfactory financial evaluation.
If you have any queries about GO Wales or the contract please contact Jackie Cresswell-Griffiths, Head of Skills & Employability at Jackie.Cresswell-Griffiths@hefcw.ac.uk or telephone 029 2085 9740.
HEFCW will be going to open tender for this contract. Interested suppliers should obtain the tender documents via the eTenderwales portal. Tenders should then be submitted via the e Tenderwales portal no later than Noon Friday 17 February 2017.
Instructions for accessing the eTenderwales portal:
HEFCW will be conducting this procurement exercise through the etenderwales portal https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk. Tender documents and other information must be downloaded from and returned through this
portal. If you require any further assistance, the BravoSolution helpdesk is available on:
Email: help@bravosolution.co.uk Phone: 0800 368 4850 / Fax: 020 7060 0480
The specific details of the online tender are:
Main Project code 35336 – Go Wales: Achieve through Work Experience programme (April 2016 to March 2019).
E-TENDER ACCESS INFORMATION:
- Go to https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk
- The first person from your Organisation to use the Platform will be required to register on behalf of the Organisation.
- Registration involves accepting a User Agreement, and providing basic information about your Organisation and about the
User performing - The User who performs the Registration becomes the Super User for the Organisation.
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- The Password will be sent by e-mail to the email address that was specified in the User Details section of the Registration
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contact the Helpdesk access to the Platform.
- Tenders must be uploaded to the BravoSolution portal by Noon Friday 17 February 2017.
HOW TO FIND THE ITT:
- Once logged in you must click on ‘ITT’s Open to all Suppliers’
- Click on the title to access summary details of the contract. If you are still interested in submitting a tender, click the
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NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=61268
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