Employability, Skills and Progression
Supplier Engagement Event
Speaker:
Melanie Bear
Senior Adviser Employability Skills & Progression
Date:
Tuesday 12th June 2012
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Agenda
There are no planned fire alarms today
Toilets are at the entrance
1. Welcome and introductions
2. Background to the Youth Contract Opportunity
3. Proposed Mentoring and Support Service
4. Council Procurement and Tendering Process
5. Feedback and Questions
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1 Background
Nationally - £1 billion of funding over the next three
years to support the participation of young people in
education, training and work – the Youth Contract.
This particular programme of additional support will
be focused on 16-17 year olds who are not in
education, employment or training (NEET), have low
levels of attainment and a range of factors that put
them at greater risk of long-term disengagement.
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National Model - Open Competition
Local model - 3 areas of the country (including
Newcastle-Gateshead) the Government is testing a
local approach as part of the Government’s ‘City
Deals’.
Funding has been devolved to local authorities, to
commission a programme of support for 16 to 17
year olds.
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Newcastle has significant numbers of young people in this age
range who are NEET or whose destination status is ‘Not Known’.
Many young people not in any learning/employment have at
least one of the following characteristics;
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Have some form of learning difficulty and/or disability
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Are in care/leaving care
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Are Teenage Parents/Pregnant
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Are Young Offenders
Many of our NEET / Not Known young people come from
disadvantaged wards across the city and in particular Kenton,
Walker, Byker, Benwell/Scotswood and Elswick.
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Context and Background
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14-19 Review process and recommendations
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Consultation with young people and voluntary and
community sector
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Fit with wider area based approach across the city
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Aim – to build on existing expertise in the support of
young people
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Opportunity – to tailor this work to meet the needs of
local areas
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Proposal
Newcastle City Council to seek providers of
mentoring and support services for 16 and 17 year
olds from across the city who are NEET.
This service will be a key element of a wider
programme designed to help young people to make
the transition from NEET to EET.
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The Proposed Programme
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Focuses on providing personalised work related
programmes with a high level of mentoring and support.
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Will engage 450 young people aged 16 or 17 from
Newcastle over the 3 years, who are NEET or at high risk of
becoming NEET.
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Will provide each participant with a mentor who will work
with the client and other partners to devise an
individualised, personalized programme. This will include
the development of employability skills and participation in
confidence building activities.
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Will not provide additional new training programmes, but
will seek to utilise existing training provision within broader
personalised support programmes.
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Youth Contract Programme
Service Provider
Programme Management
Mentoring
Information, Advice & Guidance
(Connexions)
Initial Action plan
Employability Skills
Confidence Building
Activities
Progression Support
Post progression support
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Sourcing of Work Experience
Sourcing of External Training
Literacy & Numeracy Support
Lot 3 North and Outer West
Newcastle covering:
Kenton
West and East Gosforth
Fawdon
Woolsington
Castle
Parklands
Blakelaw
Denton
Westerhope
Newburn
Lemington
Lot 1 West Newcastle,
covering:
Benwell & Scotswood
Elswick
Westgate
Wingrove
Fenham
Lot 2 East Newcastle covering:
Byker
Walker
Ouseburn
Walkergate
South and North Heaton
North and South Jesmond
Dene
Payments and Quality Issues
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Payments to service providers would need to be
structured to incentivize progression and
sustained progression of beneficiaries.
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Funding for Years 2 and 3 is dependent upon
successful performance in Year 1.
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Next Stage
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Two week consultation process on this proposal.
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Start date 13th June 2012.
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Closing date 27th June 2012 at 5.00pm
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Responses to Gillian Kelly
Gillian.kelly@newcastle.gov.uk or Fax 2114904
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Questions
1.
Do you support the proposal that provision of mentoring and support services for
young people aged 16 and 17 who are not in education, employment or training is a
positive step to engaging them?
Yes
No
Comments
2.
Are any key features of a personalised programme for this group of young people
missing?
Yes
No
Comments
3.
The Education Funding Agency requires the City Council to implement a payment by
results model with the organisation(s) selected to deliver mentoring and support
services. What issues should the City Council consider to ensure the successful
implementation of services in light of this approach to funding?
4.
What skills, knowledge and experience do you feel are required by an organisation to
successfully deliver mentoring and support services for young people aged 16 and 17
who are not in education, employment or training?
5.
Are there any other points you feel the City Council should consider in designing the
specification for these mentoring and support services?
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Your comments will inform the final
specification that will be issued in July
through a competitive procurement
process.
Summary of feedback will be provided.
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Introduction to Council Procurement and
Tendering Processes
John Collins
Senior Procurement Category Specialist,
Newcastle City Council
Tender Opportunities
Newcastle City Council carries out
tenders electronically and uses the NEPO
Portal e-tendering system to do this.
www.nepoportal.org
Procurement documentation
All invitation to tender documents include
Instructions, information on the process,
Contractor Evaluation Questionnaire (CEQ)
terms and conditions of contract,
specifications, evaluation criteria weightings
and scoring rationale.
Procurement documentation
The CEQ documents are used to assess the suitability and
capability of the organisation to deliver the contract and ask about
different aspects of the organisations business as follows.
 Organisation profile
 Insurance
 Financial information
• Health and safety
• Equality and diversity
• Technical capacity
• References
The CEQ also sets out the grounds for exclusion.
Procurement documentation
 The document includes the specification for the
services we require and what you need to do in order
to submit a proposal.
 The specification will be accompanied with
evaluation information about how we will assess
your submission, e.g. weightings.
 The evaluation information will clearly set out the
criteria used in the assessments, the different
weightings attached to specific parts of the
evaluation and how we will score our assessments.
Evaluation criteria and weightings
The council will set out the evaluation criteria and the associated
weightings in the documentation.
It is normal practice to use technical and pricing weightings to
reflect our priorities attached to the contract, but where
appropriate 100% weighting can be applied to either.
For example:
Technical:
Pricing:
70%
30%
Pricing:
Technical:
60%
40%
Selection and award criteria
Evaluation will be made on what is known as selection and award
criteria and assessed against a pre-determined scoring rationale.
Selection criteria are focussed on the tenderer and award criteria
are focussed on the tender and NCC must maintain a clear
distinction between both throughout the procurement process.
This means that issues/questions which are appropriate to the
selection criteria must be addressed at the selection stage and
can not form part of the award stage (even if they were omitted
from the selection stage in error) and vice versa.
Scoring rationale
The council will use a graduated approach, such as the example below; to
score scored questions in a CEQ and to evaluate the tenderers
response.
Score Classification
100 Exceptional response in all areas.
90
Exceptional response with some minor shortcomings, or very good
response with some exceptional elements
80
Very good response in all areas
70
Very good response with some minor shortcomings, or good response with
good elements
60
Good response in all areas
50
Good response with some minor shortcomings, or acceptable response with
good elements.
40
Acceptable response in all areas.
30
Acceptable response with some minor shortcomings, or poor response with
some acceptable elements
20
Poor response in all areas
10
Very poor response that is significantly below expectations in all areas
0
No response, or inappropriate response in all areas
Submission requirements
We include a checklist for tenderers setting out
the documents we require as part of the
submission.
Please note: if tenderers do not provide all of
The items in the checklist this may cause the
tender to be non-compliant and not
considered.
Notification – standstill and feedback
The council notifies successful and
unsuccessful tenderers via the web portal.
The notification to unsuccessful tenderers
provides information on their scores, the
successful tenderers scores and relevant feedback
on their submission.
When appropriate, we will advise both successful
and unsuccessful tenderers that a standstill period
is in force.
Questions and feedback