Tender: Tender Opportunity - Impact Evaluation YPFN

The ‘Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods’ (YPFN) programme will create a platform for Groundwork to build its support for young people and communities in some of the country’s most disadvantaged communities. Working with Sanctuary Housing, FPM and Youth Access, Groundwork will provide early interventions in 20 target communities experiencing intergenerational breakdown, and through intensive personalised support, will help 1,750 marginalised young people improve their behaviours, skills and prospects. The programme is grant funded through the Department for Education.

Alongside this delivery, Groundwork Trusts will access specialist support to help local partnerships develop robust plans for future financial sustainability, in particular through the application of mutual structures. The programme will generate learning of national significance for local authorities and other organisations exploring how best to commission, manage and sustain services for young people.

Groundwork supports communities in need, working with partners to improve the quality of people’s lives, their prospects and potential, and the places where they live, work and play.

Groundwork’s vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper. We work alongside communities, public bodies, private companies and other voluntary sector organisations to deliver projects and programmes that bring about concurrent social, economic and environmental benefits.

Groundwork UK invites firm tenders for the impact evaluation of the YPFN programme in England.

A mixture of quantitative and qualitative research is required.

Tender details can be found in the document attached.

Queries on the tender may be made up until noon on 19th August 2010, by contacting either Andrew Harrison -andrew.harrison@groundwork.org.uk (before 13th August) or Dawn Peace - dpeace@groundwork.org.uk (after 13th August).

Bids must be received by 5pm on 26th August 2011, they must be submitted in accordance with the instructions in the invitation to tender and should be sent under sealed envelope to:

Carol Allmark

Groundwork UK

Lockside

5 Scotland Street

Birmingham

B1 2RR

The envelope must clearly describe the contents (including the reference number YPFN and the words 'Tender Documents Enclosed') in order that the tender document can remain unopened until the due date and time.

If this is not followed, or the bid is received after the deadline, this will result in the tender becoming null and void.