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Funding - Commissioning Opportunities
How to Find
Commissions:
The Southwest Regional Improvement & Efficiency Partnership
is a one-stop shop window on contract opportunities from a growing
number of councils in the South West. Even without registering, you
can use the portal to look for information about existing contracts
and new opportunities. Visit The
SW Regional Improvement & Efficiency Partnership website.
Where to Find Tenders: NAVCA's LCPU has produced a list of
websites providing a useful idea of what the public sector is buying
both locally and farther afield, and how they advertise tenders.
http://www.navca.org.uk/localvs/lcp/briefings/wheretenders.htm
Portal for NHS Commissioning Opportunities
- Health Services tenders will be advertised by the Primary Care
Trust on the Supply 2 Health website:
www.supply2health.nhs.uk
Tenders & Contracts Wiltshire - local
authority tenders are posted on
http://www.buywiltshire.co.uk/index.php
The Tender Support Project A new
project from the National Association for Voluntary and Community
Action offers procurement support to third sector organisationsThe
project is being delivered as part of the National Programme for
Third Sector Commissioning and will run from October 2009 to the end
of March 2011. It will provide individual guidance, advice and
support on tender submissions for third sector organisations that
are inexperienced or new to tendering and do not have access to
similar tender support.
The project aims to help with the following:
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Assessing tender suitability;
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Checking pre-qualification questionnaires;
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Polishing draft tender submissions;
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Preparing for interviews/presentation with
evaluation panels
For more information, visit the
NAVCA
website or contact Pauline Kimantas at
Pauline.kimantas@navca.org.uk
or phone 0114 2893982.
Commissioning Information & Support:
Procurement by Bath & NE Somerset Council. This link is to a
general overview of procurement by Bath & North East Somerset
Council:
Procurement Overview.
Pathways through the Maze: A Guide to Procurement (Navca/NCVO
Guide)
Click here.
Commissioning Support Service run by ACEVO, offers range of
support & information to help organisations engaged in
commissioning, including the following key briefings: Tendering and
Bidding Briefing: Give your tender a winning chance; Impact
Briefing: Putting impact at the heart of the tendering process;
Negotiation Briefing: Effective negotiating to secure better
outcomes; VAT Briefing: VAT made simple when working in partnership.
Commissioning Support Service
Commissioning and Procurement Resources. A listing compiled
by NAVCA can be downloaded from:
http://www.navca.org.uk/localvs/lcp/briefings
Compact Commissioning Guidance (Feb 2009) - download from
Compact website.
Glossary of Terms for Tendering and Procurement put together
by Tendering for Care. Download from their website at
http://www.tenderingforcare.com/system/files/Glossary%200208.pdf
Evaluation of the National Programme for Third Sector
Commissioning: Baseline Report - FEB 2008 This is the first
report from the outcome evaluation of the National Programme for
Third Sector Commissioning. The research explored current
commissioning practices and attitudes to third sector involvement in
public sector commissioning. The research generally reflected an
openness amongst commissioners to work with the third sector but in
practice, significant barriers to involvement remained. For some
TSOs, commissioning was seen as a threat to the diversity and
independence of the sector but thers saw it as an opportunity to
move towards funding based on achieving the best outcomes for user,
rather than a more ‘patronage’ based system of grant giving. Yet
TSOs, and in particular smaller TSOs, were disadvantaged by
commissioning processes, so that they were not ‘on a level playing
field’ with private or public sector organisations - particularly
when it came to competing for contracts.
Download the Baseline Report
Thinking Differently About Commissioning. This presentation
was given by Sarah Garrett at the Commissioning Event on 3 December
2009 which was jointly organised by DEVELOP and The Care Forum.
Click here to
download presentation.
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