To establish a Panel of Suppliers for the Provision of pre-employment training and employment placement services for MSD clients for work in construction (building and infrastructure)

Details

The Government provides MSD with a Budget allocation to procure pre-employment training and employment placement services for MSD clients for work in the construction (building and infrastructure) sector.

As MSD expects the Government to continue funding these pre-employment training and employment placement services, the purpose of this tender is to establish a Panel of Suppliers to facilitate procurement of these services with a term of 5 years, that will be refreshed annually to allow:
• New Suppliers to join
• Existing Suppliers to update their rates, capabilities and capacity.

Setting up a panel of suppliers is intended to:
• facilitate the prompt commencement of pre-employment programmes once the budget is confirmed on 1 July each year, where
• a secondary selection processes and/or direct selection process will be undertaken with the Panel Suppliers to allocate Construction Pre-employment Programmes as required during the contract term.

In this context – As Industry Partnerships have secured a Budget of $4.5m to purchase Construction Pre-employment Programmes, this tender will also act as a secondary selection process to allocate Construction Pre-employment Programmes for this financial years known requirements.

Panel selection is not a competitive tender process – all tender respondents that demonstrate they meet the requirements, will be selected to join the Panel. However being appointed to the Panel is no guarantee of being allocated work.