Liverpool City Council

Commercial Procurement Unit

Contract Number: DN450366

Contract Name: Inter-Generational Skills Project

The Authority is seeking quotes for an Inter-Generational Skills Project.

The project aims to provide meaningful social roles for children, parents and older adults, to encourage older adults to utilise and share their experience and skills. The transmission of knowledge and skills from one generation to another will empower older adults to take an active part in their community.

The project aims to empower residents and communities to play a more active role in improving their neighbourhood, enabling early intervention and prevention, reducing loneliness and isolation. The sessions’ are to encourage children and families to be more resourceful, counteracting the ‘throwaway culture’.

The project assists LCC in meeting the requirements of the Social Value Act 2012 (as stated below). The Act requires public bodies to have due regard to economic, social and environmental wellbeing, in connection with public service contracts.

The objectives in summary are:

To provide meaningful social roles for children, parents and older adults, meeting Social Values.
To encourage older adults to utilise their experience and skills, meeting Social Values.
Improve children’s social and emotional development, meeting Social Values.
Help forge strong school/parent partnerships, meeting Social Values.
Boost children’s listening and attention, receptive language and social communication, meeting Social Values.
Improve general school readiness for younger people, meeting Social Values.
The transmission of knowledge and skills from one generation to another, meeting Social Values.
Empower older adults to take an active part in their local community, meeting Social Values.
Improve community cohesion and mutual respect with older members engaging with younger members of their community, meeting Social Values.
Prevent loneliness, meeting Social Values.

Please download the full supporting documents from Procontract.

Your company will need to register on Procontract (Due North) to be able to receive the opportunity. The documents will only be available on Procontract (available via the Due North site). Once you have registered you will need to go to the “my opportunities” section on the home page of Procontract and follow the instructions as a supplier to enable you to return your submission.

To register your organisation on Procontract click on the following link https://procontract.due-north.com/register, go to suppliers’ area and click on “register free”.

Closing date for submissions 11 December 2019 by 16:00hrs

Liverpool City Council Procurement: Inter-Generational Skills Project