Awarded contract

Wales Gypsy Roma and Traveller Advice and Advocacy Services

Details

Buyer: Welsh Government
Supplier(s): Children In Wales
Value: £930,000
Topic: Supporting services for the government
Published: 12 September 2024
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

The Welsh Government is procuring contract for a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller advice and advocacy service (“the Service”) for 2024-2028 on a pan Wales basis. Lot 1: This tender is to provide a new Wales Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Advice and Advocacy Service contract which is to include provision of advice, support and individual and community advocacy working alongside Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families on issues such as accommodation, sites, planning, rights and accessing services, informing Gypsy Roma and Traveller community members about their rights and signposting and support community members into mainstream services and advocate for adaptations to policy or process where necessary. It will also provide support to report hate crime, racism and discrimination, support community consultation networks and engagement groups when needed and work with Welsh Government to offer solutions to barriers facing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Please note that 'Cyber Essentials Plus' certification is a requirement for undertaking tis contract.

Timeline

Completed: Award date2 September 2024
Completed: Award published12 September 2024
Current notice

About the buyer

The Welsh Government is the devolved government for Wales and buys as a central government body through its Corporate Procurement Services team. That team advises departments on procurement and supports larger tenders. Commercial Procurement ICT handles digital contracts and lets ICT frameworks for the Welsh public sector. Welsh Government Commercial Delivery, formerly the National Procurement Service, builds national frameworks with councils and the Welsh NHS. They are listed on the Wales Collaborative Procurement Hub on Sell2Wales. Welsh contracting authorities' notices appear on Sell2Wales and the Central Digital Platform, with pipelines of larger future contracts.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Welsh Government's contract awards have been in business services, research and development and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

75130000 · Supporting services for the government
75200000 · Provision of services to the community
79510000 · Telephone-answering services
79512000 · Call centre
85322000 · Community action programme
98133100 · Civic betterment and community facility support services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov