DfE - Disability Support Services 2022

Concepts

• department for the economy is seeking to procure a disability support service
• belfast
• education and training
• disability support services
• disability support service
• form of pre-entry training support
• distinctive disability support
• dss support
• disability needs
• further support

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

The Department for the Economy is seeking to procure a Disability Support Service (DSS) to provide specialist and other distinctive disability support in respect of participant’s disability needs who participate on the Client’s Vocational and Educational Training programmes. Multiple suppliers will deliver specialist training across Northern Ireland. This contract will be subdivided into lots. Tenders may be submitted for 5 Lots comprising of 5 Disability Areas where DSS support may be needed by an eligible participant. These 5 lots are: 1) Cognition and Learning 2) Social, Behavioural, Emotional and Well-Being 3) Speech, Language and Communication Needs 4) Sensory 5) Physical Needs The aim of the DSS is to provide this further support in the form of Pre-Entry Training Support prior to the participant entering a programme and In-Training Disability Support while they are taking part on their programme.

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 80210000 - Technical and vocational secondary education services
• 80211000 - Technical secondary education services
• 80212000 - Vocational secondary education services
• 80310000 - Youth education services
• 80330000 - Safety education services
• 80340000 - Special education services
• 80500000 - Training services
• 80520000 - Training facilities
• 80521000 - Training programme services
• 80530000 - Vocational training services
• 80531000 - Industrial and technical training services
• 80531100 - Industrial training services
• 80531200 - Technical training services
• 80532000 - Management training services
• 80533000 - Computer-user familiarisation and training services
• 80533100 - Computer training services
• 80533200 - Computer courses
• 80540000 - Environmental training services
• 80550000 - Safety training services
• 80560000 - Health and first-aid training services
• 80561000 - Health training services
• 80570000 - Personal development training services

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The Contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. A Contractor not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a Contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a certificate of unsatisfactory performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a certificate of unsatisfactory performance may result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for up to 3 years. The Department for the Economy (the Client) will have its own procedures in place to monitor and review each Contractor’s performance. The Client will use the outputs from these contract monitoring procedures to monitor and review the Contractor’s performance.