Notice Information
Notice Title
Invitation to Tender - The Reach Fund (Grant Administration Services for Investment Readiness Grants)
Notice Description
Access - The Foundation for Social Investment are seeking a partner to deliver grant administration services for "The Reach Fund", our investment readiness grant programme for charities and social enterprise in England. Access was set up in 2015 by the UK Government, Big Lottery Fund and Big Society Capital. 2 / 5 Access works to make charities and social enterprises in England more financially resilient and self-reliant, so that they can sustain or increase their impact. We do this through supporting the development of enterprise activity to grow and diversify income, and improving access to the social investment which can help stimulate that enterprise activity. In 2016 Access established the Reach Fund to test a new model of providing investment readiness support to charities and social enterprises. Following the successful piloting of the fund over the last two years, Access wishes to contract a provider to deliver the Reach Fund for at least a further three years, from 13/10/2018. We are looking to work with an experienced grant administrator who will be comfortable with the iterative nature of delivering this programme, with the ability to learn and adapt as the programme progresses. We plan to support this programme for at least a further three years, with a possible extension of up to two more. Given the programme is already in place with 23 Access Points appointed to date, we do not expect a significant build up period will be required so would expect broadly even volumes of applications over the next three years.We expect the average investment readiness grant made to charities and social enterprises to be PS15k and we expect 480 organisations over 3 years to benefit. This results in a total expected grant spend of PS7.2m over three years. If the programme is extended for a further 2 years, we would expect a further grant spend of up to PS5m. We ask prospective grant administrators to estimate the costs of delivering a programme with the above quoted grant volumes. The tenderer should evidence the ability to: a) Manage the relationship with the current Access points and maintaining the application process for new Access Points b) Establish and maintain positive relationships with each of the Access points c) Show why they are well placed to manage these relationships d) Maintain the website to manage the online diagnostic and grant application process for charities and social enterprises working with their Access points e) Manage the grant application, scoring, decision making, payment and grant monitoring processes f) Manage any issues related to State Aid g) Monitor the grants made to charities and social enterprises h) Gather, report and publish data from the fund's activities in coordination with Access i) Solicit and respond to feedback from lenders, grant recipients and support providers and work with Access to refine the programme Further detail as well as the award criteria are included in the ITT available on our website Additional information: Following the successful piloting of the Reach Fund over the last two years, Access wishes to contract a provider to deliver the Reach Fund for at least a further three years, from 13th October 2018. For more information or if you would like to apply, please read our Invitation to Tender for the Reach Fund and submit a proposal of no more than 20 pages to applications@access-si.org.uk by noon on Monday, 6 August 2018.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-3d15d2db-ca7c-41ed-b052-4d7c3e03e0e4
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/98fd0d95-3fde-4537-a8ee-20ba2baae457
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
75 - Administration, defence and social security services
-
- CPV Codes
75100000 - Administration services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £12,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 9 Oct 20187 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 6 Aug 2018Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 4 Oct 20187 years ago
- Contract Period
- 14 Oct 2018 - 14 Oct 2021 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- ACCESS - THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL INVESTMENT
- Contact Name
- Janie Oliver
- Contact Email
- janie.oliver@access-si.org.uk
- Contact Phone
- 02070846834
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- EC4A 1AZ
- Post Town
- Central London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)
-
- Local Authority
- City of London
- Electoral Ward
- Castle Baynard
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/98fd0d95-3fde-4537-a8ee-20ba2baae457
9th October 2018 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder -
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/aaec6f09-97e0-4b01-adf6-d3a9d0b14e1e
5th July 2018 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder -
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/f8430977-7019-45e9-8f89-d0b9e4e96cbb
Invitation to Tender - The Reach Fund -
https://access-socialinvestment.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ITT-Reach-Fund-July-2018.pdf
Invitation to Tender - The Reach Fund
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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