Tender Summary

Customer Grants

Buying Organisation

Orbit Group Limited

Contract Value

£1,500,000

Suitable for SMEs

Yes

Suitable for VCSEs

Yes

Tender Description

Orbit are seeking to partner with a single organisation or consortium of providers with single lead provider to deliver a customer grants programme to cover our three regions of the Midlands, East and South-East of England.

We require customers grants to be managed and delivered via digital platform with the provider to support and arrange third party distribution.

Area of Focus:
1. Hardship Grants (food / fuel / white goods)
2. Employment and Skills Grants
3. Digital Grants (data / tablet / laptops)
4. Youth (childcare / uniform / cost of the school day)
5. Wellbeing Grants (mental wellbeing)
6. Home Grants (carpet / curtains / winter warmth / gardening)

Orbit are running this procurement exercise through the housing e-procurement portal 'Procontract'. Interested suppliers should register/log-in to the portal to view the tender documents and submit their response. Any project related queries should be sent via the messaging function on the portal.

The contract will commence April 2024 for a period of 2 years with an option to extend for a further 1 year.

Tender categories (products & services required)

Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98000000)
Provision of services to the community (CPV 75200000)

Region

North East (UKC)

Buyer Information