Community Task Force (CTF)

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Latest News about CTF Phase 2

Community Task Force Phase 2 – Question & Answer Log as at  26 March 2010

Community Task Force Phase 2 – Question & Answer Log as at  19 March 2010

Community Task Force Phase 2 – Question & Answer Log as at 10 March 2010

CTF2 Invitation to Tender Documents

• CTF2 ItT Specification (1.67MB)
• CTF2 Generic Tender Form
• CTF2 CPA Specific Tender Form
• CTF2 ItT Instructions for Bidders (313KB)
• CTF2 ItT Security Plan and Guidance for Providers
• CTF2 Draft Terms and Conditions (838KB)
• CTF2 Pricing Schedule
• CTF2 Pricing Schedule Guidance (112KB)

Previous notices and other information about Community Task Force

Phase 2

Community Task Force Phase 2 - Question & Answer Log From Itt Events Held 3 & 4 March 2010

Phase 2: Opportunity to submit a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) for Phase 2

Community Task Force Phase 2 Invitation To Tender Events - added 25 February 2010

CTF2 Successful PQQ Supplier List - Added 19 February 2010

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is offering organisations the opportunity to compete, through an open and competitive two stage tendering process, for contracts to deliver Community Task Force Phase 2.

Download the CTF Phase 2 Specification, Questionnaire and Instructions for Bidders here.

• Specification – Pre-Qualification Stage – Community Task Force Phase 2 (165KB)
• Questionnaire – Pre-Qualification Stage – Community Task Force Phase 2 (531KB) RTF
• Instructions for Bidders – Pre-Qualification Stage – Community Task Force Phase 2 (102KB)

Here are the slides, contact list and Q & A Log for the CTF2 PQQ Supplier Events which were held in Glasgow and London.

• Slides – Community Task Force: Pre Qualification Questionnaire Provider Event December 2009 (118KB)
• Attendee contact details – Community Task Force: Pre Qualification Questionnaire Provider Event (Glasgow and London) December 2009 (67KB)
• Q&A Log – Community Task Force: Pre Qualification Questionnaire Provider Events December 2009 (44KB) 

If you have any further questions or would like anymore information regarding Phase 2, please send an email to Mayfieldcourt.ctf@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

Contracts will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender which offers high quality provision to meet the diverse needs of our customers. CTF Phase 2 will go live at the end of July 2010. The Contract Package Areas (CPAs) for CTF Phase 2 are listed below.

Contract Package Areas for Phase 2

• Highlands, Islands and Clyde Coast & Grampiann
• Forth Valley, Fife & Tayside
• Glasgow
• Northumbria & Gateshead, South Tyne & Wear Valley
• Cumbria & Lancashire
• Cheshire & Warrington
• Halton & Merseyside
• West Yorkshire
• Essex, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire
• Dorset & Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire & Swindon, West of England
• Olympic Host Boroughs & City of London
• West London
• North & North East London
• South London
• Hampshire & Isle of Wight
• Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

Background to the Community Task Force

In the 2009 Budget, Ministers announced the Young Person's Guarantee (YPG): a guaranteed offer of a job, work-focused training, or meaningful activity to all 18 to 24 year olds approaching the 12 month stage of their claim to Jobseekers Allowance (JSA).

The guaranteed offer consists of:

• New jobs created through the Future Jobs Fund (FJF)
• Routes into Work (formerly Sectoral Routeways): support to move into an existing job in a key employment sector
• Work-focused training
• Work experience placements to enhance employability and deliver benefit; within the local or wider community – Community Task Force (CTF)

The Service Requirement

Community Task Force (CTF) is part of the wider Young Persons Guarantee available to all customers aged 18-24 who are approaching 12 months of their claim to Jobseeker's Allowance where a subsidised job or training are unsuitable or unavailable.

CTF will offer up to a maximum of 6 months' quality work experience of benefit to the community, designed primarily to enhance the employability and work-related skills of participants, and increase their chances of entering sustained employment. In line with the direction of travel for welfare reforms, the CTF should be flexible and tailored to the individual circumstances of the customer where possible.

At the end of CTF if a customer has not found work, they will join Stage 3 of JRFND at the point they left it.

Procurement

Implementation of Community Task Force is being delivered in two Phases. Organisations from the public, private and third sector are being invited to bid to deliver a high quality flexible and innovative package of support of up to six months quality work experience of benefit to the community.

CTF Phase 1 procurement exercise is already underway with the contracts going live from 29th January 2010.

CTF Phase 2 will be procured using a two stage tendering approach. Bidders will be asked to complete a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Bidders successful at this stage will then be invited to submit a tender.

Phase 1

• Phase 1: Successful bidders for Phase 1
• CTF Phase 1 Invitation to Tender Questions & Answers Log (53KB) (revised 7 October 2009)
• Contract Package Areas (16KB). (revised 7 October 2009)
• Successful PQQ Provider List (64KB). (revised 18 September 2009)
• CTF1 Invitation to Tender Events Question & Answer Log 18th September 2009 (16KB). (revised 18 September 2009)
• CTF Phase 1 Invitation to Tender Events Presentation Slides(added 20 October 2009)

CTF1 Invitation to Tender Documentation

• CTF Phase 1 Tendering Instructions for Bidders(added 20 October 2009)
• CTF Phase 1 Security Plan and Completion Guidance for Providers(added 20 October 2009)
• CTF Phase 1 Specification Invitation to Tender Stage(added 20 October 2009)
• CTF Phase 1 Invitation to Tender Form(added 20 October 2009)
• CTF Phase 1 Terms and Conditions(added 20 October 2009)
• CTF Phase 1 Pricing Schedule(added 20 October 2009)
• CTF Phase 1 Pricing Schedule Guidance(added 20 October 2009)
• Community Task Force PQQ Event Question and Answers Log - July 2009 (40KB). (added 24 July 2009)
• Procurement Questions Raised at CTF Supplier Information Events 14 and 16 July (12KB). (added 24 July 2009)
• CTF Pre-Qualification Questionnaire - Instructions for Bidders (95KB). (added 22 July 2009)
• CTF Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (398KB). (added 22 July 2009)
• CTF Supplier Events - Attendee Contact Details (36KB). (added 22 July 2009)
• Detailed Specification (165KB).
• List of the Community Task Force Phase 1 Procurement areas (50KB).
• PQQ Event Slides Edinburgh & London (125KB).

Work is being undertaken with City Strategy Partnerships, attached is a full list of partners that DWP are currently working with (22KB) (agreed sub regional partners). These are City Regions, Multi Area Agreement Areas and City Strategy Areas.