Opportunity to Tender

Work for Your Benefit Pilots

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is offering organisations the opportunity to compete, through an open and competitive two-stage restricted tendering process, for the delivery of Work for Your Benefit (WfYB) in 2 pilot contract areas of:

• Jobcentre Plus Districts of Greater Manchester Central and Greater Manchester East and West; and
• Jobcentre Plus Districts of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire & Suffolk.

Stage 1 (Pre-Qualification Questionnaire)

Submission of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) by interested organisations.

Stage 2 (Invitation to Tender)

Submission of a fully completed bid by organisations successful at Stage 1.

DWP invites you to download and consider the following:

• PQQ Event 18 August 2009 - Provider Contact Details (32KB) (added 24 August 2009)
• PQQ Provider Event - Presentation Slides (163KB) (added 24 August 2009)
• Question and Answer Brief (43KB) (revised 7 September 2009)
• Specification (89KB)
  • Annex 1 - Jobseekers Regime & Flexible New Deal Model (25KB)
  • Annex 2 - Funding Model Overview (20KB)
  • Annex 3 - Work for Your Benefit Pilots (28KB)
  • Annex 4 - Contract Package Areas and Indicative Customer Volumes (17KB)
  • Annex 5 - Localisation/Devolution (24KB)
  • Annex 6 - Local Employment Partnerships (12KB)
  • Annex 7 - Provider Referrals and Payments System (24KB)
• Instructions for Bidders (92KB)
• Draft Terms and Conditions (579KB)
• Pre-Qualification Questionnaire

DWP are inviting interested organisations from Public, Private and Voluntary sector organisations to submit a PQQ, to deliver Work for Your Benefit (WfYB) 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 the 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.

Please note that the closing date for a completed PQQ is 12 noon on Wednesday 9 September 2009.

We will be hosting an event to provide further information at the Mercure St. Paul’s Hotel Sheffield on Tuesday 18 August 2009. To register your interest in attending the event please complete the form below and e-mail to the address below by noon on Thursday 13 August.

• Event Nomination: WORKFORYOURBENEFIT.PQQ@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK

We look forward to receiving your Pre Qualification Questionnaire.

Graham JV Noble MCIPS
Local Procurement Management Team Leader
Cardiff