Meadows Community Centre Kitchen Extension

Description

This procurement exercise is being run by Cambridge City Council (CCC) under the Procurement Act 2023 Section 6 - Reserving Contracts to Supported Employment Providers and PR 2024 R24 and is let solely for and on behalf of Cambridge City Council.
To be clear what a reserved contract means - please see the extract below
Reserving contracts to supported employment providers (extract S32 PA2023)
(1)A competitive flexible procedure may provide for suppliers that are not supported employment providers to be excluded from participating in, or progressing as part of, the procedure.......
(4)A "supported employment provider" means an organisation that operates wholly or partly for the purpose of providing employment, or employment-related support, to disabled or disadvantaged individuals where-
(a)disabled or disadvantaged individuals represent at least 30 per cent of the workforce of the organisation,
(b)if a particular part of the organisation is to perform the contract, disabled or disadvantaged individuals represent at least 30 per cent of the workforce of that part of the organisation
In effect this means that the work force of any bidding or winning supplier MUST have at least 30% of their workforce that are disabled and/or disadvantaged. Evidence of this must be provided with the submission.