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ITT Clarification Event - Convergence Monday
15th June 2009
Welcome
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Agenda

1. ESF Overview
2. Invitation to Tender
3. Application Process Dos and Donts
4. ITT Forms
5. Q A session

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ESF Overview
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South West Region

• Competitiveness and Employment
• South West region excluding Cornwall and the
  Isles of Scilly
• Convergence
• Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

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Other Considerations

• Linkages
• ERDF / RDPE / Innovative and Transnational / JCP
  ESF
• Mainstream
• Sectors
• Basic Skills
• Train to Gain
• Sustainable Community Strategy and LAAs
• Sub-contracting Arrangements
• Evaluation

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Adding Value toMainstream
Enhanced
Mainstream
Post
Pre
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Invitation to Tender SW Regional ITTs
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Specification Titles

• Convergence Employer
• Apprenticeship Support Employer Engagement
• Strengthening the Environment Sector
• Design and Innovation

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Priority 5

• Priority 5 target group focused on those who
  are employed and includes those either at risk of
  redundancy or recently made redundant.
• Emphasis on workforce with basic skills needs
  without relevant level 2 or 3 qualifications
  and/or Higher Level Skills.

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Strengthening the environment sector

• Funding available 500,000
• Outputs 300 participants
• Geographical location Cornwall and the Isles of
  Scilly
• End date June 2011

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Strengthening the environment sector

• Results
• 210 individuals achieving a minimum of one
  module/unit of higher level programmes (Level 3,4
  or 5)

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Apprenticeship Support Employer Engagement

• Funding available 500,000
• Outputs 1775 SMEs contacted
• Geographical location Cornwall and the Isles of
  Scilly
• End date Sept 2011

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Apprenticeship Support Employer Engagement

• Results
• Programme 1
• A minimum of 220 employers signed up and engaged
  into the Apprenticeship programme
• A minimum of 250 Apprenticeship starts/retentions
  measured at the end of the 13 week induction
  period
• Programme 2
• A minimum of 114 Apprenticeship places retained
  on programme or new starts where yearly intake
  levels are maintained.

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Design and Innovation

• Funding available 500,000
• Outputs 333 participants
• Geographical location Cornwall and the Isles of
  Scilly
• End date July 2011

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Design and Innovation

• Results
• Increased capacity within the area to innovate
  and design sustainable solutions to community
  priorities.
• 240 positive outcomes

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ITT Process

• ITT evaluation commences in July 2009
• Using fair, transparent and robust scoring
  framework
• Contract Award panels will agree each contract
  offer against the original tender specification
• Local partnership team carry out contract
  clarification with relevant providers
• Contracts expected to start from late
  August/September 2009

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Application Process - Dos and Donts
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DO

• Read the Read me first document FIRST
• Start early, save regularly
• Publish your response well before closing date
• Only use the message facility on Bravo for
  queries
• Check that the ITT is complete before submitting
• Attachments must be attached
• All asterisked sections MUST be completed
• If you need guidance try the supplier help
  guide on the e-tendering portal or email
  help_at_bravosolution.co.uk

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DO NOT

• Alter the documentation
• Try to upload documents other than Word or Excel
• Omit Attachments
• if they are missing when we are evaluate then you
  will not be successful
• Leave it until the last minute to submit /
  publish your tender
• Leave your LSC e-tendering session running with
  no activity - if you do your session will
  time-out after 15 minutes and you will lose all
  unsaved work

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PLEASE NOTESW ITTs

• Late Tenders will not be considered
• 5pm on the 26th June 2009 is the deadline for SW
  Regional ITTs
• Only exceptions to this may be audited LSC
  technical problems

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ITT Forms
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Questionnaire Example
ITT Forms
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Costing spreadsheet
ITT Forms
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Terms and conditions of contract
ITT Forms

• These are the terms and conditions of contract
• under which contracts will be let

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Technical and commercial responses
ITT Forms

• The technical instructions on how to complete the
  ITT response
• The commercial response is the demographic
  information for each specification, that
  providers wish to offer
• Eg this many males/ females where and what their
  characteristics

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Q A Session
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Q A Session

• The content from these events will shortly be
  available at www.lsc.gov.uk/regions/SouthWest/esf/