Professional and Executive Back Into Work
3 Day Structured Workshops - South West Region
Background
The economic downturn has impacted disproportionately on professional and executive occupations within the Region. This has led to a higher than average numbers of these customers using Jobcentre Plus Services, many for the first time. A high proportion of these individuals are unfamiliar with being unemployed, especially when the pool of available jobs is shrinking and a tightening labour market means they will need to think laterally about alternative employment.
As a result, Jobcentre Plus is seeking to provide specialist support to help qualified and professional people and experienced executives return to work as quickly as is possible.
Question and answer log (108KB) 
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is offering organisations the opportunity to compete, through an open and competitive tendering process, for the delivery of this provision covering the whole South West Region using the bidding document below.
Application form (62KB) (rtf)
We invite you to download the specification of the competition. DWP are committed to an open and transparent approach throughout the procurement process.
We are inviting applications from Public, Private and Voluntary sector organisations to deliver this provision in partnership with local partners and stakeholders.
DWP will only contract with a single legal entity. Where organisations intend to bid as a consortium, they may nominate a lead organisation who will act as a prime contractor (with the other organisations as sub-contractors) or they may set up a new legal entity such as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to bid for these contracts. A copy of the draft contract is below. The declaration by tenderer should also be returned with your bidding document.
Declaration by Tenderer (28KB) (rtf)
We appreciate that after considering the Specification you may have questions. We will open a formal Q&A process to deal with any ongoing queries. In the meantime if you have any urgent enquiries relating to the event or to this stage of the competition then please use the e-mail address provided in the notice to tenderers document above.
