Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-01-22
Buyer: Big Lottery Fund
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 416000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-02-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Provision of Services to Support Organisations Awarded Grants through the Big Lottery Fund Digital Fund
The Big Lottery Fund is seeking to appoint a service provider(s) to support organisations awarded grants through the Big Lottery Fund Digital Fund, a new UK wide 15 000 000 GBP funding programme which aims to help the charity and voluntary sector to use digital tools and approaches to support people and communities to thrive.
— lot 1 — for the provision of support to Civil Society Organisations with incomes in excess of 500 000 GBP per annum under Strand 1 of the of the Digital Fund which offers grants of up to 500 000 GBP to the organisations and a tailored support package,
— lot 2 — the provision of support to newer organisations (created/established after 2000) that have launched promising products and services that use digital to achieve scale and/or impact. Funding of up to 500 000 GBP will be provided to organisations under Strand 2 of the Digital Fund.
Provision of Support to Civil Society Organisations with Incomes in Excess of 500 000 GBP per Annum Awarded a Grant Under Strand 1 of the Digital Fund
More information about the Digital Fund can be found at: https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/digital-fund
It is essential that potential bidders look at this information to help them understand the aims of the Digital Fund.
This funding strand offers grants of up to 500 000 GBP and a tailored support package (supplying this support package is the purpose of this lot). The aim of the Strand is to help established organisations to use digital to take a major leap forward. We expect grants to last from 1 to 4 years.
The grantees that we wish to support will be Civil Society Organisations with incomes of over 500 000 GBP a year, some possibly much bigger. They will be experts in their field with deep domain knowledge. They will be ambitious about using digital to improve services, but will be lacking certain capabilities needed to move forward.
— helping grantees to acquire the necessary digital skills at both board and executive levels, through both recruitment and skills development,
— helping grantees to learn from the experiences of other organisations, especially other grantees under this strand,
Service providers may also be asked to provide informal advice to the Big Lottery Fund on the applicants to future waves of the Digital Fund during 2019. This advice would comprise of commenting on project proposals from applicants that have been invited to develop detailed proposals.
Bidders must understand and accept that prior to grant decisions, which will be made during and after this Invitation to Tender, the Big Lottery Fund cannot know how many grants we will make under Strand 1 of the Digital Fund. The total could be anywhere between the extremes of zero (0) and twenty (20).
Provision of Support to Newer Organisations (Created/Established after 2000) That Have Launched Promising Products and Services That Use Digital to Achieve Scale and/or Impact

Eligibility requirements: Refer to Invitation to Tender document for details.

Award value: 416000