Ambition for Ageing — Local Delivery Leads.

Ambition for Ageing is a unique cross sector partnership of influential organisations, led by Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation (GMCVO), with the aim of developing creative approaches to reducing social isolation for older people in Greater Manchester. The programme is part of the Big Lottery's national Ageing Better programme which is funding 14 programmes across England. The programme will work in 3 neighbourhoods in eight local authority areas within Greater Manchester. Five Delivery Leads were appointed in October 2015 to work in the local authority areas of Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Tameside and Wigan.
The procurement has been split into 3 lots, one for each of the remaining local authority areas. Potential applicants have the opportunity to bid for all or any combination of the 3 Lots, however successful applicants will only be awarded a maximum of 2 Lots as lead provider, but may feature as a sub-contractor in more than 2 successful bids. GMCVO does reserve the right in exceptional circumstances to award more than two lots to an Applicant, where, for example, there are no other viable bids in any particular lot other than that of an Applicant who has the highest ranking in two other lots. The reason for the 2 lot limit is to maximise the test & learn potential by commissioning a variety of approaches and minimising the risks associated with provider failure.
The 3 Lots are;
Lot 1 — Bury.
Lot 2 — Rochdale.
Lot 3 — Salford.
All the procurement documentation relating to this tender can be obtained from the GMCVO tender portal. This procurement will be managed electronically via the GMCVO tender portal. Details on how to register or log on to the portal, register an interest in this procurement, access the information and submit a proposal can be found at:-
http://www.gmcvo.org.uk/tender/ambition-ageing

Potential Applicants will need to register an account at:-
http://www.gmcvo.org.uk/user/register
to access the documentation. Please contact GMVCO direct if you have any queries. Please note the estimated values are inclusive of VAT and further information regarding the VAT position of this procurement can be found in the tender documentation which is available on the GMCVO procurement portal. The services to be procured fall within the light touch regime in regulations 74-77 and schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘the Regulations’) and GMCVO does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations save as those applicable to this regime. The procurement is being conducted using an Open Procedure pursuant to the Regulations. OJEU reference.
OJEU Notice
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:432598-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0