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title: "Employability Flexible Framework"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04c0dd"
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# Employability Flexible Framework

Buyer: STIRLING COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04c0dd

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## Summary

This public procurement process involves the Stirling Council and Clackmannanshire Council, focusing on creating an "Employability Flexible Framework" within the service category of education and training. It encompasses multiple lots aimed at providing employability support services across Stirling and Clackmannanshire, UK. The procurement followed an open procedure, with the tender initially being active and now marked as complete, having moved through the stages of tender to award. The latest updates include several extensions for deadlines due to staff absences but culminated in multiple awards with contracts signed on 28 March 2025. The total allocation for each of the three main service lots - "Engagement and Barrier Removal," "Vocational Training and Work Related Skills," and "In-Work Support and Work Based Training" - amounts to £2,333,333 each.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses involved in training, employment support, and community services, particularly those skilled in navigating and mitigating employability barriers, offering vocational training, and providing in-work support. The flexible framework allows for the incorporation of variants due to the breadth of services required, making it ideal for SMEs and other organisations that can deliver innovative and value-added solutions. With a focus on sustainability, community benefits, and fair working practices, businesses with a strong track record and the ability to demonstrate tangible impacts on employment outcomes will be competitive in this procurement environment.

## Notice

Stirling Council and Clackmannanshire Council are seeking to award a flexible framework for the provision of employability support services. There will be three separate lots.

### Lot Information

Engagement and Barrier Removal

Providers will be required to demonstrate significant levels of understanding and experience in successfully identifying the barriers that affect people's participation in employability support, together with detail around a range of strategies and approaches that they would then employ to help people tackle barriers. Providers should also be able to demonstrate the impact of the support that their work has had on participants. This will cover Stages 1 and 2 of the Employability Pipeline. Additional information: 11.2.10 (Variants)- Owing to the vastness of employability services, variants may be required.

Vocational Training and Work Related Skills

Providers will be required to demonstrate a range of experience in delivering pre-employment training opportunities. This may include those in specific sectors like hospitality, tourism, construction and social care. Any experience of delivering work experience opportunities should clearly show how these prepare people for work, and how they support individuals to build a work ethic. This will cover Stages 3 and 4 of the Employability Pipeline. Additional information: 11.2.10 (Variants) - Owing to the vastness of employability services, variants may be required.

In-Work Support and Work Based Training

Providers will be required to demonstrate a track record of supporting people to retain employment, along with an ability to build meaningful relationship with employers (and the wider workforce), supporting both employers and participants to find creative solutions to difficult work place situations which may arise and be able to detail how these approaches have supported job sustainment. This will cover Stage 5 of the Employability Pipeline. Additional information: 11.2.10 (Variants) - Owing to the vastness of employability services, variants may be required.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020743-2025 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large, SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 13 May 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 17 Jan 2025 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 28 Mar 2025 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £2,333,333 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | STIRLING COUNCIL |
| Additional buyers | CLACKMANNANSHIRE COUNCIL |
| Locality | STIRLING |
| Post town | Falkirk and Stirling |
| Postcode | FK7 7QA |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM0 Eastern Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM01 Clackmannanshire and Fife |
| Local authority | Clackmannanshire |
| Electoral ward | Clackmannanshire South |
| Westminster constituency | Alloa and Grangemouth |
| Delivery location | TLM72 Clackmannanshire and Fife, TLM77 Perth and Kinross, and Stirling |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 44 |
| Supplier names | ACTS SCOTLAND (CIC; BARNARDO'S; BORDERS COLLEGE; CALLANDER YOUTH PROJECT TRUST; CAMPHILL BLAIR DRUMMOND TRUST; CAPABILITY SCOTLAND; CERT; CETERIS (SCOTLAND; CHILD CENTRAL TRAINING; CLACKMANNANSHIRE THIRD SECTOR INTERFACE; COMMUNITY WELLBEING AND EDUCATION; ENABLE SCOTLAND (LEADING THE WAY; FEL SCOTLAND; FORTH VALLEY COLLEGE; FORTH VALLEY WELCOME; HOME-START CLACKMANNANSHIRE; HOME-START STIRLING; IMPACT ARTS; INCLUDEM; LEAD SCOTLAND; NEW COLLEGE LANARKSHIRE; NEXT GENERATION TRAINING; NITHCREE TRAINING; ONE PARENT FAMILIES SCOTLAND; PARKER ENTERPRISE; PEOPLEPLUS GROUP; POSITIVE QUALITIES; PROGRESSIVE PATHWAYS; RAEBURN TRAINING; RECYKE-A-BIKE; RESONATE TOGETHER; ROUTES TO WORK; SALVATION ARMY TRUSTEE COMPANY(THE; SCOTTISH ACTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH; STEMRAN; STIRLING COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE; STIRLING DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU; STIRLINGSHIRE VOLUNTARY ENTERPRISE; THE CHALLENGES GROUP; THE CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS SCOTLAND; TRANSITION STIRLING; TRIAGE CENTRAL; VALUES INTO ACTION SCOTLAND; VOLUNTEERING MATTERS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- 80 - Education and training services
- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 79611000 - Job search services
- 80000000 - Education and training services
- 80500000 - Training services
- 80510000 - Specialist training services
- 80521000 - Training programme services
- 80530000 - Vocational training services
- 80533000 - Computer-user familiarisation and training services
- 80570000 - Personal development training services
- 85300000 - Social work and related services

## Release History

- 13 May 2025 at 09:39 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020743-2025
- 15 Jan 2025 at 12:32 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001349-2025
- 28 Nov 2024 at 15:24 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038488-2024

## Notice URLs

- http://www.clacks.gov.uk/business/corporateprocurementprocess/
- http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
- http://www.stirling.gov.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000784427
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00146
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00260

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