Decisions

Programme Challenger has benefitted from the delivery of Steer in Salford since its inception, and in Bolton, Trafford and Wigan more recently, and has supported the work in engaging with young people and young adults at risk from or involved in serious and organised crime.

Salford Foundation has been successful in a bid for funding to continue and scale up STEER delivery across Greater Manchester. The contribution includes retrospective contribution funding for 2022/23 as the Youth Endowment Fund commencement date was delayed.

£21,500 will be provided to Salford City Council from Programme Challenger budget as a contribution to the total costs of delivering the STEER programme for the period April 2022 – July 2023.

STEER provides one to one mentoring for young people aged 10-17 at risk of serious youth violence and child criminal exploitation. It utilises specifically designed interventions and positive activities aiming to “steer” young people down a legitimate path helping to improve resilience, motivation and reduce risk taking behaviours.
Mentors support each young person to create their own plan and set goals. They also help young people to improve pro-social skills and develop coping mechanisms.

The main aim of the Violence Reduction Learning Event is to share learning across VRUs pertaining to the following:

- Adopting a Public Health Approach to serious violence
- Sharing good practice between VRU and non-VRU areas.
- Sharing Serious Violence Duty learning to date
- Practical learning from using and developing data effectively
- Sharing learning around developing the evidence base
- Putting prevention at the heart of violence reduction activity
- Working with partners and communities to be preventative by addressing the underlying causes of causes.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are seeking to make the following payment covering accommodation for a Lancashire Police hosted Serious Violence Duty Event on Thursday 8th June:

Click Travel
A payment to be made of £121.49 to cover 1 night’s hotel accommodation in Preston (standard rate, chain hotel)

It is a team and organisation priority to have Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) training. The Team Away Day presents a good opportunity for a taster session to train the majority of the team together

£75 is allocated to provide a d/Deaf Awareness taster session at a Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team Away Day.

To allow the GBV Board to meet in person. The GBV Board meets quarterly to drive and oversee implementation of the city-region’s ten-year GBV Strategy.

The GBV Strategy is vital to delivering on Greater Manchester’s Our People, Our Place commitments to being a place where ‘people are proud to live’, where ‘all children are given the best start in life’, and ‘where all voices are heard’.

The ambition is to challenge the attitudes and social conditions that sustain or excuse GBV and deliver whole system improvements in responses to those affected by it. These will fundamentally change the story of Greater Manchester in terms of what it delivers with regard to safety for women and girls, gender equality, challenging misogyny - the contempt that follows from ingrained sexism - and holding perpetrators of GBV - the majority of whom are men and boys - to account.

A payment of £480.00 be made by the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Board to Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce to book a room covering meeting space for 30 attendees for a Board meeting to be held on 20 June 2023.

A key element of the ongoing programme of Sexual Violence Harm reduction work, has been establishing best working practices between CVS support services for sexual violence and GMP/ GMCA.

There has been an added emphasis and requirement for this work following Operation Soteria, which was launched as a response to the government End-to-End Rape Review, and the Home Office pledge to increase the number of rape cases making it to court. It was designed to test a series of tools (such as improved approaches for digital capture) and techniques (such as those associated with offender management) to engender justice outcomes.
Following Op Soteria in Greater Manchester, a number of recommendations were produced, which were agreed to be used to inform partner plans and RASSO strategy going forwards.

An away day for partners was agreed to be the most suitable method to identify best working practices, recognise issues, challenges, and action plans.

Due to limited availability of key officers to facilitate on the day, the 18th May was the only day that would attain the required attendance. Unfortunately, GMCA, GMP and other partners did not have availability within internal meeting room space to accommodate for the required numbers, and a central Manchester located private venue was required. A number of options were explored and the Mechanics Institute was deemed to be fit for purpose and offer the most value.

£931.75 be allocated from the Victims budget to fund the GM Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) away day at the Mechanics Institute on 18th May 2023.

• Room Hire
• Refreshments (Tea and Coffee)
• Lunch Buffet
• Equipment Hire

TOTAL £931.75

The Violence Reduction Unit intends to run a team away day to unite the wider GM Violence Reduction Partnership (including leads from public agencies across GM including Health, GMP, Probation, Public Health, Youth Justice and Education amongst others) in order to generate a Business Plan for the next 12 months, ensuring that Violence Reduction is at the heart of every stage of the plan. The away day is intended to generate team cohesion and ensure a partnership-wide approach to our core business planning.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are seeking to make the following payments for a VRU Partnership Away Day on 24th May 2023:

UA92 (University Academy 92 Ltd)
A payment to be made of £880.00 to book a room & catering at UA92 covering event space for between 25 and 30 attendees, as well as lunch & refreshments (Teas, Coffees, Water, Sandwiches & Crisps) covering 40 participants.

Procurement legislation requires GMP to award a new contract for these goods and services. The recommended route of the CCS RM6259 framework, Lot 5: Bluelight Solutions framework provides the most effective route to market.

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a 7 Year contract for provision of a Command-and-Control System to SSS Public Safety Limited (SSS), with the option to extend for a further 3+1 years. The likely value of a 10 years spend would be circa £4.5 million.

Microsoft licences are the most expensive spend of GMP’s IT department every year and cover all Windows, Server, and Azure costs. The approximate spend per annum is nearly £6million

Procurement legislation requires GMP to award a new contract for these goods and services. It is recommended that GMP participate in the ESPO Crown Commercial Supplier aggregation exercise. There is an expectation that GMP may benefit from the combined purchasing power of a number of public sector bodies and indeed other bodies may benefit from the inclusion of GMP.

GMP may undertake a benchmarking exercise, if the delivered pricing is not seen as the best available and indeed may withdraw and run our own exercise. A further approval would be sought if this approach was necessary. GMP are not committed to purchase following the aggregation exercise.

Approval is given to tender the contract for the supply of Microsoft Licences using the aggregation exercise run by ESPO\Crown Commercial Suppliers.

GMP require a 3+1+1+1 contract.

This is requested in order to run a fully compliant 2 stage tender exercise and award a contract for a period of 3 years, with the option to extend up to a further 2 years on an annual basis.
The service is currently being provided by Oasis Limited and has been running for several years.

The Deputy Mayor is asked to consider this request to run a full open 2 stage tender for the above services.

Procurement legislation requires GMP to tender for these goods and services. The recommended route provides the most effective route to market.

The award of a call-off agreement through a further competition via the CCS Framework RM6171 Lot 6: Managed Service for Asset Recovery, which allows for a fully managed service for the transportation, resale or disposal of any item or asset, including:
• high value items
• electrical equipment
• office equipment and machinery
• vehicles
This also includes anything confiscated or seized under a forfeiture order Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA)

The Deputy Mayor approves the tender of a three-year contract term contract for Auction House services, with the option to extend for a further one-year optional extension. The likely value of the 48-month contract period would be circa £800,000.00 in total (income).

SHiFT is a national charity that works with vulnerable children and young people caught up in, or at risk of cycles of harm where things are getting worse, not better. SHiFT will collaborate with the Violence Reduction Unit and Manchester City Council to establish trusting professional relationships between practitioners and young people to give them the support they need to improve their lives.
A private donor has provided 50% of total programme cost for 18 months of delivery of the programme to children and young people in Manchester and Manchester City Council are providing the remaining 25%.

£150,000 be provided to Manchester City Council as a contribution to deliver targeted interventions to prevent vulnerable young people from being drawn into risky behaviours that could impact negatively on them and their communities, to cover delivery for 2023/24.

We Move complements local policing and crime reduction priorities, and since going live in Autumn 2022, the project has gone from strength to strength, with over 50 young people on the programme, 14 of which are girls, who are all successfully engaging in an extensive range of positive activities. To date, the mentees have also collectively achieved over 23 qualifications, with many working towards achieving qualifications in subjects from life skills, peer mentoring, to construction. We also have 6 mentees who have re engaged in education and 2 who have gained employment.

This funding will enable us to support 56 more vulnerable young people to believe better is possible, accepting referrals from a wide range of statutory and non statutory agencies including the Police, Youth Justice Teams, Children’s Services, and education settings (incl PRU’s). ‘We Move’ adopts an ‘invest to save delivery model’, in recognition that the costs involved in delivery of the project are minimal compared to the community safety impact and potential individual harm (e.g., cost of a YP in the Youth Justice Service can be more than £29,000 per year based on the GMCA’s Unit Cost Database).

The programme is currently being evaluated by the Open University with a report expected in late 2023. This will include an analysis of the impact of the programme on a sample of mentees, which will enable us to consider the potential system savings of We Move. Furthermore, we collate performance information on a quarterly basis to ensure that we are successfully achieving our aims and outcomes:
Aims
• Deliver timely and tailored one to one and group mentoring to mentees with a view to building a trusted relationship, offering swift and tangible opportunities which support the mentee to believe better is possible.
• Mentees are supported to design a pathway to their personal goal, whatever that may be.
• Mentees are empowered to develop, meaningful and positive connections within their communities by engaging them in locally available activities.
• The mentees journey throughout the programme is captured to evidence distance travelled. The projects seeks to achieve the following aims and outcomes for our mentees:

Soft outcomes (as applicable to individual mentee)

o Improved health / mental wellbeing
o Improved confidence / self-esteem / resilience
o Reduction in anxiety levels (identification of strategies to help them reduce their anxiety)
o Reduced feelings of loneliness.
o Improvement in behaviour
o Improved pro social engagement.
o Improved feelings of safety

Tangible outcomes (as applicable to individual mentee)

o Mentees are engaging in positive activities.
o Mentees are engaging / re engaging in education.
o Mentees are achieving qualifications.
o Mentees schools attendance has improved.
o Mentees who are at risk of exclusion have remained in school.
o Mentees are no longer committing criminal offences (e.g., violent incidents, anti social behaviour, robbery, drug dealing)
o Mentees have secured employment opportunities (work placements, apprenticeships, employment)

Supporting our mentees to remain in school alone could save the system at a minimum £13,000 per young person, and we have seen huge interest from secondary schools. In recognition of this, and our ambitions to share the We Move ethos with as many vulnerable young people as possible, we are currently trialling two peer mentoring groups within a secondary school in Tameside (girls and boys group), which are going really well. As part of the groups participants will gain valuable knowledge and skills in a variety of areas and achieve an accredited Peer Mentoring qualification. If successful, we will be exploring opportunities to offer this approach to more schools.

Through We Move we are also seeking to support the VCSE organisations involved in the delivery of the project by improving their capacity and capability to deliver sports plus provision, which includes providing access to a comprehensive mentor training package which seeks to ensure that they are pro-social in their approach and embed trauma informed principles.

YEF reports that Mentoring is effective in both reducing crime and the behaviours associated with crime and violence with research suggesting that, on average, mentoring reduces violence by 21%, all offending by 14%, and reoffending by 19%. This approach is therefore supportive of GMP’s ambitions to reduce crime and offending, with prevention and problem solving at the forefront, along with their ambitions to keep children and young people safe within their families and communities. We Move is a truly asset based, and child led approach, and the learning from the project will be shared within GMP and partners to inform future community led projects

That the Deputy Mayor agrees to the funding allocation of £80,000 (period 2023-2024) from the Police Property Act to be awarded to the VCSE organisations involved in the delivery of Programme Challenger’s We Move Mentoring Project to enable them to support a further 56 young people who are at risk of school exclusion and involvement in serious and organised crime and serious youth violence.

The VCSE organisations delivering We Move on behalf of GMP, are currently Diane Modahl Sports Foundation and Oldham Boxing and Personal Development Club.

For an investment of around 1.3k per mentee we think that there is evidence to suggest that We Move could result in system savings of up to approximately £29,000 for some individuals (just based on those engaged in Youth Justice provision). In some extreme cases we think We Move could prevent school exclusions resulting in system savings of 370k per individual.

As part of We Move, mentees (aged 12-18 years) are matched with a dedicated mentor who will provide them with tailored one to one support, and work with them to design a pathway to their personal goal.

We Move offers:

? financial support to enable young people on the programme to access positive activities (e.g., sport, theatre and musical opportunities);
? Support to access other services which address personal challenges (including wellbeing, therapeutic behavioural support, addiction and mental health support), and we have partnered with Early Break and 42nd Street; and
? Support to access employment and education opportunities that are right for them.

The strategic aim of the VRUs communications plan is to reduce serious violence by increasing aspirations of young people in Greater Manchester, and reassuring the public that the VRU is working together with partners and the community to address serious violence and its underlying causes.

The communications objectives are to:
• Raise awareness of how Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) is working together with partners and the community to address serious violence.
• Promote an alternative to violence by showcasing opportunities for people affected by violence and build aspirations for young people through campaigns and communications activity.
• Demonstrate the impact of the VRU in reducing serious violence, especially violence amongst young people.

The VRU have funded Unity Radio to deliver three nine-week programmes with 10+ young people to raise awareness of serious violence and knife crime through a series of conversations led by young people.

The partnership enables young people, aged 13-17, to discuss issues relating to serious violence that affect them in several workshops, before creating content to be aired live on Unity Radio’s NGY show.

Although there are already a significant number of young people who regularly listen to the show from across GM, we are keen to encourage new listeners to ensure our messaging reaches as many of our audience as possible and this funding to Transport for Greater Manchester seeks to maximise the reach of our Unity Radio campaign.

To award £750.00 to Transport for Greater Manchester for out of home adverts to promote the NGY show on Unity Radio.

The ads will be used on TfGM’s website and digital screens at Piccadilly Metrolink station for a period of two weeks.

On Saturday 17th June 2023, the Clinical Lead for the GM VRU will host the UniteHER event at Moss Side Leisure Centre. UniteHER is a female only social event aimed to bring girls ages 11-16years old with inspirational female role models in professions that they may initially have hesitancy about (i.e. Police, doctors, social workers, emergency responders...). The event aims to improve communication and relationships between them by using sport and learning workshops to unite the groups together. UniteHER will partner with the Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit and England Netball.

The event involves netball skills sessions delivered by England Netball followed by a Q&A with a professional netball player and lunch. The afternoon sessions involved the delivery of 2 workshops; lifesaving skills session delivered by StreetDoctors and a session on understanding healthy relationships, delivered by Tough Cookies, a Trafford Domestic Abuse Service.

The GM VRU has agreed to provide one-off funding for the services provided by the above organisations during the event out of the 2023/24 Serous Violence Fund (Health & Wellbeing Budget Line)

The GM VRU wishes to pay the following organisations for their services during the UniteHER event on Saturday 17th June 2023 At Moss Side Leisure Centre:

StreetDoctors: £400 – For the delivery of the lifesaving skills sessions for the attendees of the event

KitLocker: £440.11 - For the provision of UniteHer branded t-shirts for the participants of the event (50 T-Shirts)

ACE Food: £550 - For the provision of packed lunches for the attendees of the event (60 units)

ToughCookies: £285 - For the Delivery of Healthy Relationship sessions for the attendees of the event

Total amount: £1,675.11

GMP’s Annual VAWG reward / recognition event will be focusing on
community champions who work to tackle VAWG / GBV, alongside partnership working – with awards for community champions and partners. Therefore this is a chance to showcase work taking place across GM in tackling GBV and which will help with delivery of the GBV Strategy.

There will be guest speakers on topics ranging from incels / the manosphere, active by-stander behaviour, case studies highlighting survivor’s voices and a 17 year old youth champion for ending gender based violence.

Approximately 80-100 people in attendance the ambition for the day is, as a collective partnership, recognise the good work being done to combat VAWG / GBV in Greater Manchester, instil confidence in our commitment to continue tackling the problem whilst acknowledging the work still to be done.

This will also provide a chance to promote aspects of the GMCA GBV Comms campaigns.

£5000 be provided to GMP for the annual VAWG reward / recognition event on 14th September. This will be used to fund venue hire, catering and the glass awards presented to GMP staff, partners and community champions.

At the APCC AGM in July 2016, the vast majority of PCCs agreed to fund the National Police Chaplaincy Service on an ongoing basis.

A payment of £189.80 to be made to the APCC for the National Chaplaincy Service for the period of 2021/2022 and 2022/ 2023. The funding will be allocated from the Police and Crime Commissioners budget.

The recommissioning of the GM Victims’ Service commenced in 2022 and it was expected that a new gate-way service would be in place by December 2022. However, this was further delayed with a new service now due to be in place by July 2023.

Extending support services underpinning this to align with this and whilst the review of the Tier 2 services takes place is crucial whilst this commissioning exercise is underway. This will maintain stability across the sector and continue to provide essential support to victims in GM.

The Victim Services Strategic Review continues to take place. The multi crime Victim Service is now out for tender and a new service is expected to be in place by 1st July 2023. This has delayed the review of services underpinning this and commissioning decisions around where we allocate funding in future.

An expression of Interest will be undertaken to appoint someone to review the Tier 2 services, therefore to allow adequate time to undertake the review and communicate this to services and partners we are recommending that the services we currently fund are extended for a further 12 months. An outline proposal for future funding and procurement will be developed by autumn 2023.

It is recommended that the following services, currently grant funded by GMCA, are extended for a further 12 months (1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024) to align with this process.

The services included in the 12-month extension are:

• Manchester Action on Street Health (MASH) - £49,012
• Survivors Manchester - £81,952
• Trafford Rape Crisis - £22,500
• Greater Manchester Rape Crisis - £22,500
• Local Authority IDVA service provision - £420,000 across 10 local authorities (Manchester 60k, all other local authorities £40k)
• LGBT IDVA (Manchester City Council for commissioning the LGBT Foundation) - £29,593
• Guardian Project - £49,000
• Community Safety Trust (CST) - £28,116
• Greater Manchester Domestic Abuse Helpline Service (Independent Choices) – £30,000
• LGBT Hate Crime Service (LGBT Foundation) - £29,580
• City Hearts – Trafficking Support Service - £20,000

Total funding of £703,660 via the MOJ Victims Budget for 2023/24.

Total funding to be approved - £703,660

I am greater murals have been painted in three locations across Greater
Manchester – Tameside, Bury and Salford.
Young people designed the murals with an artist (Oskar with a k) and were taught how to spray paint.
Different colours were used for each mural to make them unique – this made paint costs higher than initially expected.

The end point survey will evaluate the performance of the second phase of the campaign and act as a baseline for the third phase. We have used a survey company (Obsurvant) to ensure a good number of responses, as previously we have struggled to have young people complete surveys. A
pair of airpods have also been purchased by Hitch as an incentive for young people to complete the survey.

The GM VRU is seeking to provide Hitch Marketing with an extra £2,202 to cover additional costs for the I am greater murals and end-point survey.
£8,410 was initially awarded to Hitch for this work, additional spend was required to cover material costs (underestimated initially) and survey completion. This Decision replaces a Decision published on 20/12/2022, in which in the incorrect amount of £2002 was stated.

GMCA have run a competitive process. In total 49 bids were received across both lots, with 30 in lot one and 19 in lot two.

Each bid was sent to a full evaluation panel. GMCA’s Information Governance Team also reviewed each provider’s IG submission to ensure that they were acceptable, and the finances of the bidding company were also checked.
The mini-competition comprised of 2 parts, covering (80%) Quality, (20%) Social Value via the Social Value Portal. The Quality selection process involved evaluating the bidders’ responses on a number of criteria including:
- Learning Delivery Approach
- Quality and Track Record
- Mobilisation and Implementation
- Engagement and Stakeholder Management
- Performance Management and Monitoring
- Financial Value for Money

Following the evaluations, the bidders were ranked based on their total overall score and all organisations who had met the minimum evaluation criteria as per the published documentation, were invited to a two-part negotiation procedure, the first stage was to ask all providers to resubmit their allocation asks, taking into account a number of factors, including but not limited to the following:

- Coverage, reach, capacity and affordability
- Value for money, based on the cost, volumes and balance/mix of provision.
- The extent to which the totality of the proposals responds to the LMI appended to the specification, in particular the proposed offer available in those areas with high concentrations of residents with low/no qualifications.
- Current performance of existing devolved GM AEB contract for service providers, where relevant

Following the resubmissions, each organisation was invited to a negotiation meeting to discuss any remaining points. These discussions centred around the values of contracts, past performance considerations, reviewing supply chains and distribution across localities.

Contracts will be awarded to the bidders listed above. Any bidder who scored one or below on two or more questions, did not pass the economic and financial standing evaluations, the minimum OFSTED requirements or did not submit a proposal for a contract value above the minimum or below the maximum for the relevant lot has been excluded from the process.

Following a competitive procurement process using GMCA’s Education Work and Skills Flexible Procurement System, GMCA wishes to award the following contracts:

Lot 1 - Upskilling unemployed residents and residents who are economically inactive into employment:

Babington Group Ltd - £650,088.00
Back 2 Work Complete Training - £1,979,980.20
Bright Direction Training - £991,846.80
Get SET Academy - £521,690.00
Gloucestershire College - £745,998.00
Mantra Learning Ltd - £3,148,193.58
Realise Learning & Employment Ltd - £1,040,232.12
Rochdale Training - £412,162.80
Seetec Business College - £1,262,006.90
Standguide Limited - £1,149,951.28
The Constructions Skills People Ltd - £771,686.00
The Growth Company - £3,014,976.97
Total People Ltd - £893,322.50
Workers' Educational Association - £1,416,909.12

Lot 2 - Upskilling / reskilling employed residents:

Acorn Training - £541,810.00
Babington Group Ltd - £209,783.00
DMR Training and Consultancy Ltd - £254,227.00
Mantra Learning Ltd - £1,655,377.67
Rochdale Training - £279,724.40
The Growth Company Limited - £477,810.00

The intent of the GM devolved AEB provision is to support:

• The priorities of the Greater Manchester Strategy 2021 – 2031 good lives for all:
Greater Manchester is a great place to grow up, get on and grow old; a great place to invest, do business, visit and study to become:
o A greener Greater Manchester: responding to the climate emergency
o A fairer Greater Manchester: addressing inequalities and improving wellbeing for all
o A more prosperous Greater Manchester: driving local and UK growth.
• Unemployed residents, including those furthest away from the labour market and residents who are economically inactive with the potential of re-entering the workplace, to develop the essential skills and occupational competences needed to progress further in learning, work or careers, on courses aligned with local employer needs.
• Employed residents, to improve their skills and be more productive, or retrain to find a better job supporting in-work progression for adults into higher level careers, adapting to changing employer needs.
• Occupational skills gaps to support our business needs, providing employers with a locally skilled workforce.
Further information on the scope of the procurement can be found in the embedded specification attached.

The intent of the GM’s Adult Skills Level 3 targeted offer is to support the priorities of the Greater Manchester Strategy 2021 – 2031 good lives for all.
Greater Manchester is a great place to grow up, get on and grow old; a great place to invest, do business, visit and study to become:
• A greener Greater Manchester: responding to the climate emergency.
• A fairer Greater Manchester: addressing inequalities and improving wellbeing for all
• A more prosperous Greater Manchester: driving local and UK growth.
• To develop the occupational competences needed to progress further in learning, work or careers, on courses aligned to Greater Manchester’s key growth and foundational occupational areas.
• To improve the skills of residents and be more productive or retrain to find a better job supporting in-work progression for adults into higher level careers, adapting to changing employer needs.
• Target occupational skills gaps to support our business needs, providing employers with a locally skilled workforce.
GM’s Adult Skills Level 3 Targeted Offer incorporates two funding streams under one single pot:
• An allocation of funding from GM’s core devolved Adult Education Budget for targeted Level 3 delivery, and
• GMs devolved ringfenced allocation from the national Free Courses for Jobs Level 3 offer.
Within the funding streams there are three core strands, differentiated by a resident’s eligibility and a set of fully funded Level 3 qualifications. These strands are as follows:
• GM Local Level 3 for Adults
• GM FCFJ Level 3 Local Funding Flexibility
• National Free Courses for Jobs Level 3 offer

Activity funded from this commission can be summarised as follows:

• Overall value: £4.91m for the period June 2023 to July 2024.
• In total, the successful bidders propose to engage with 3,112 residents across GM
Further information on the scope of the procurement can be found in the specification.
GMCA have run a competitive process. In total 17 bids were received.

Each bid was sent to a full evaluation panel. GMCA’s Information Governance Team also reviewed each provider’s IG submission to ensure that they were acceptable, and the finances of the bidding company were also checked.

The mini-competition comprised of 2 parts, covering (80%) Quality, (20%) Social Value via the Social Value Portal. The Quality selection process involved evaluating the bidders’ responses on a number of criteria including:
- Learning Delivery Approach
- Strategic Approach
- Track Record and Quality
- Engagement and Stakeholder Management
- Performance Management and Monitoring
- Financial Value for Money

Following evaluation, the bidders were ranked based on their total score. Contracts will be awarded to the bidders listed above. Any bidder who scored two or below on two or more questions or did not pass the financial checks were excluded from the process.

Following a competitive procurement process using GMCA’s Education Work and Skills Flexible Procurement System, GMCA wishes to award the following contracts:

The Growth Company - £710,692
Standguide Limited - £ 724,256.53
Bright Direction Training - £185,640
Plato Training - £979,939.10
Realise Learning and Employment - £772,540
Gloucestershire College - £325,134
Back to Work - £286,881.14
Total People Ltd - £351,814
DMR Training and Consultancy - £250,941
Workers' Educational Association - £330,119

Acquisition of Bus Depot to support Bus Franchising

To approve the acquisition of a bus depot to support bus franchising, within previously approved capital and revenue budgets for bus franchising.