Instrumental tutors for Knowsley Music and Performing Arts Service (MAPAS) 2016

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council’s Music and Performing Arts Service (MAPAS) has established a pool of self employed instrumental/vocal tutors to utilise when it’s full and part time staff are unable to deliver Service Level Agreements within schools. MAPAS intends to add further capacity to the service by increasing this pool, through contracting additional appropriately qualified self employed instrumental/vocal tutors.
Suppliers are advised to clarify any points of doubt or difficulty relating to the documentation before submitting their response. Any queries should be submitted through the question and answer function via The Chest (Pro-Contract) e-tendering system. Please refer to previously asked questions before asking a question as duplicate questions will not be answered.

Both questions and answers will either be made public on The Chest or responded to directly to the originator depending on the content.

It is your responsibility to ensure that the completed submission is uploaded successfully on The Chest by the deadline specified below:

Deadline for Submission of this RFQ: 12 August 2016 at 9:30am

In submitting your quotation you agree to contract on the terms and conditions published on The Chest as part of this RFQ. Due to the Council’s obligations of fairness and equal treatment to all bidders it cannot accept amendments to these terms and conditions or alternative terms and conditions. If you seek to amend the terms and conditions or submit alternative terms and conditions the Council may reject your quotation.

Bidders are advised that the deadline set out above is absolute. You are advised to upload your submission well in advance of the deadline to avoid any technical issues that might arise causing you to fail to meet the deadline which would lead to the rejection of your submission. The Council is conscious that Bidders spend a huge amount of time, effort and expense in putting together a submission and is keen to ensure that no bid is rejected for this reason. The Council positively welcomes your submission and would rather evaluate it than reject it for being late or incomplete and therefore non-compliant.