Hertfordshire Consortium of Colleges

ESF DELIVERY 2014-2020

Background

u  College representative group established to discuss response to Hertfordshire ESIF Allocation

u  Collaborative approach supported by all college Principals

u  Experience and ability to deliver all services identified under each of the themes

u  Benefits from working as a consortium include:

u  Full geographical county coverage

u  Specific expertise from each of the colleges

u  Knowledge of local needs and specific targeted provision

u  Wide range of experience in working with sub-contractors and working on large projects.

u  Consortium will bid to lead on themes 08 and 10 in Hertfordshire only

Experience

u  Working as a large ESF prime contract holder since 2008

u  Leading contracts across the East of England and the East Midlands

u  Working with multiple stakeholders and subcontractors

u  Delivering a range of regional provision across a number of ESF priorities

u  Supporting partners in working collaboratively to achieve targets and address local need

u  Previous projects achievements include winner of the regional equal opportunities award and shortlisted for College beacon award

u  Presented projects and findings at the Institute of Education and the ESF national Conference

u  Used as example of good practise for ESF works case study

Previous/current performance

Partnership working

u  Looking to work with partners who:

u  Add value and give good value for money

u  Have a good performance track record and experience of working with the client group

u  Offer targeted and bespoke provision

u  Are flexible and able to respond to change quickly

u  Are able to offer innovative and exciting programmes and to be able to ‘think outside of the box’

u  Open to working in partnership and sharing good practise

u  Committed to complying with the contractual and data requirements of the project

Quality Cycle

u  The quality cycle we would be used to:

u  Recruit and select sub-contractors

u  Issue sub-contractor contracts

u  Monitor quality and compliance

u  Monitor performance

u  Take actions to address under or over performance

u  Complete the contract closure process

Contact compliance

u  Extensive experience of SFA and DWP Article 13 and 16 audits. ALL ERROR FREE

u  Complimented on the resources, systems and procedures used to ensure compliance and sharing of good practise

u  Due diligence process

u  Quality monitoring visits

u  Audit planned and unannounced

u  Contract validation meetings

u  County steering groups

u  Good practise events

u  Facilitated masterclasses

Resources

Local knowledge

u  Consortium coverage across the whole of Hertfordshire

u  Each consortium member with very specific localised knowledge and an understanding of the demographic picture

u  An established infrastructure with access to venues across Hertfordshire

u  Access to a plethora of specialists and resources within each of the Colleges.

u  Well established stakeholder relationships (JCP, Local Authority teams, connexions, Schools and specialist providers)

The way forward

u  Consortium anticipated to deliver approx. 40% of contracts (depending on specification content)

u  Looking for partners in a phased approach to give additionally to our offer

u  Expected to sub-contract with approx. 4 partners per College

u  The consortium will offer partners: u  Detailed guidance

u  Systems and procedures to support contract compliance

u  Training/access to masterclasses and partnership working

u  Variety of platforms to share good practice

u  Experienced data support

u  Embedded claims cycle and quick payments

u  Management fee expected to be between 15% and 20%

Contact

u  To be added to our contacts list for further updates and expressions of interest, please send your contact details to:

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