City Advice Service

Descriptions

The City of London Corporation (the City) invites Tenders for the provision of a City Advice Service. The City Advice Service is a service providing free advice and information to City Residents, tenants on all out of City estates, students and City workers. Advice spans a wide range of subject areas with the top four categories remaining welfare benefits, housing, debt and employment issues The duration of the contract is 2 years, subject to the right of the City (at its sole discretion) to exercise its right to extend the Contract by up to 2 years. The maximum length of the contract is therefore 4 years. The annual budget sum for the service is £200,000 and this cannot be exceeded. The contract start date is 1st November 2021. The service(s) advertised in Find a Tender Service contract notice fall among those listed in Annex XIV to Directive 2014/24/EU and the full obligations set out in that directive do not apply. For the avoidance of doubt, the contract is to be procured in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Regulations 74 to 78, more commonly known as the Light Touch Regime. The precise tendering procedure to be used is as described in the procurement documents. This procurement is being run as a one stage process, resembling the open procedure and its main features - which includes the core elements of the Standard Selection Questionnaire (SQ). Any organisation that considers itself able to meet the requirements of the selection criteria within the Qualification Envelope is invited to submit a tender.The description of the City Advice Service is set out in the procurement documents, particularly the specification - available from: https://www.capitalesourcing.com. Please read document 'ITT' - which contains the instructions for the tender.