UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Purchase of the Stopford agenda for registrars system and accompanying modules. An all-in-one registration service system. The agenda diary system has a wide range of service specific functions that streamline service functions. Includes appointment and ceremony calendars as standard. Online booking enable residents to fill in their details, choose a preferred time slot and book their chosen service. Customisable diaries with a complete suite of functionality, with a powerful reporting suite with the ability to monitor services performance.

Footway slurry seal at various locations.

Within Wigan we are committed to personalisation and ensuring that those eligible for support will have the opportunity to receive a Personal Budget. As part of this commitment, we are looking to commission a Service Provider to offer practical support to attract, match and secure a Personal Assistant in addition to providing clear information and advice to individuals residing in the Borough who have been assessed as having eligible social care needs and have chosen a Direct Payments. The employment and availability of Personal Assistants is important in ensuring people have choice and control in their care. The aim of the service is to provide both support to individuals who are seeking to recruit Personal Assistants through the development of a Personal Assistant register whilst offering support to individuals to recruit, select and employ, allowing them to have the capacity to choose, arrange and pay for their own services whilst maintaining consistency of support and achieving agreed outcomes. The service provision will encompass the following areas • Promotion of Value Based Recruitment and Employing of Personal Assistants • Develop and maintain and Personal Assistants register • Strategic partnership role to help to codesign and collaborate on shaping an innovative recruitment model in Wigan for the Personal Assistant workforce and care sector

The objective of this tender process is to appoint a supplier to develop educational resources and a marketing campaign to provide information that will encourage the public to make positive changes in their behaviour to reduce pollution from traffic. The audience will include schools, community, and health care settings. Wigan Council has been awarded a DEFRA Grant to develop and deliver an information campaign to raise awareness of air pollution and promote behaviour change amongst residents, children and their parents. The aim is to reduce their exposure to air pollution and to increase levels of active travel within the borough. The project has two strands: • Firstly, to develop and produce materials/resources for education campaigns to be delivered in schools (appropriate for KS3 and 4) and in community settings. The campaigns will be delivered by an Education Officer appointed by Wigan Council, and the teachers. • The second strand is to develop an information / educational campaign targeted primarily at the community and healthcare settings to improve their knowledge and awareness of air quality issues, how to decrease exposure to air pollution and lower their own emissions using simple behaviour change approaches. The maximum project budget for this commission is £60,000 excluding VAT. The overall project will take place across a 2-year timeline, with various elements of the project needing to be completed at specified time intervals. Further details about the project, including a specification and a detailed project timeline, are available within the Invitation to Tender document. The closing date of Monday 22nd August 2022 at 17:00 represents the deadline for the receipt of final tender submissions.

Wigan Council intends to procure a contractor to provide Building & Electrical Reactive Maintenance and Servicing of Automatic Doors & Roller Shutters to Council housing stock. The scope of works within this Contract is Building & Electrical Reactive Maintenance and Servicing of Automatic Doors & Roller Shutters, including but is not limited to, general building, construction and alterations to Council premises and the like. To access this opportunity please register on The Chest procurement portal (www.the-chest.org.uk).

Wigan Council intends to procure a contractor to provide mechanical servicing and reactive maintenance. The scope of works within this Contract is Mechanical Servicing and Reactive Maintenance. This includes, but is not limited to, mechanical servicing and repairs to various items of plant including but not limited to boilers, water heaters, air conditioning, gas catering equipment, gas certification and alterations to Council premises and the like. All servicing requirements provided within the tender documents. Please register on The Chest procurement portal to access this opportunity (www.the-chest.org.uk)

Wigan Council would like to appoint a Contractor to build 47 properties on the former Ince St.Mary's School site.

New play area at William Fosters Playing Fields

Framework Agreement for the supply, delivery and maintenance of planted containers throughout the Wigan Borough and the supply and delivery of spring and summer bedding plants to Wigan Borough Parks. The framework will run from November 2022 to October 2026. One contractor is required for all services associated with the Council's In Bloom Services and bedding plant requirement. For more information please see the Tender Documents detailed on the Chest Procurement Portal - https://www.the-chest.org.uk/

Wigan Council is seeking to source an Asbestos Consultant (AC) from the Fusion21 Building Safety and Compliance Framework (Lot 1) Asbestos Surveying and Consultancy. The successful AC will assist the Council in fulfilling its Duty Holder role and asbestos responsibilities as laid out within the Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act 1974 and the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012). This is to include: • The undertaking of annual asbestos re-inspections to communal areas within the housing stock where asbestos containing materials have previously been identified. • The undertaking of asbestos surveys (Refurbishment/Demolition and Management) in advance of a range of building works (Void, Responsive and Planned). • The provisions of technical and analytical support (reassurance air testing etc.) to assist the Council to manage any uncontrolled asbestos fibre release, disturbances and emergency situations. • The undertaking of site inspections for the purpose of auditing licensed asbestos removal works on behalf of the Council as required.

Wigan Council are seeking to procure a main contractor suitably experienced, resourced and with capacity to lead on the repair and restoration of the external fabric appointing specialist sub-contractors as required to deliver the specification of work. The main contractor will carry the construction phase health and safety responsibility and manage all the logistical requirement of delivering the specified works safely within a public park setting.

Wigan Council and NHS GM Integrated Care - Wigan Locality are passionate about and committed to improving the service offer for unpaid Carers across the borough, working to increase the number of unpaid Carers being supported in their role. We recognise unpaid Carers as real assets within our communities and value their role as part of the health and social care support system and the impact they have on the Health and Social Care economy. We further recognise the challenges that unpaid carers and the impact that caring has on their health, wellbeing and quality of life. We are excited to be offering to the market an exciting opportunity to work with us in continuing to develop the carers offer across the borough aimed at substantially increasing the number of carers identified and positively engaged with, offering assessments, information, advice and support in their caring roles which helps them to continue in that role for as long as they choose to and minimise the impact of their caring role on their own health and wellbeing.

There have been several initiatives across Greater Manchester that have supported local delivery of rough sleeping and homeless schemes. One of these initiatives is the creation of the 'A Bed Every Night' (ABEN) provision with each of the ten Contracting Authorities within GM providing a local ABEN service. Initially developed as an additional service to help meet demand in winter months, ABEN has developed to deliver an essential accommodation option for people experiencing or at risk of rough sleeping, year-round. The service is designed to provide emergency accommodation and support to those in greatest need, for whom there are no statutory duties towards, and who are either experiencing rough sleeping, or at real and immediate risk of rough sleeping Wigan Council want to work with a vibrant, committed Provider to deliver our ABEN service and who can co-produce and develop a service that will offer accommodation and support to the Wigan and Leigh homeless cohort. The service will provide 20 individual bed spaces and will be operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 365 days a year.

Provision 1 - Rough Sleep Prevention Outreach Service The Homeless Reduction Act has increased the responsibilities of Local Authorities in relation to service provision for homelessness. This has seen increased demand for Council services and for wider commissioned and community provision. Our model for homeless and accommodation support services for adults and young people is focused on the principles of prevention, independence, resilience and recovery, strengthening community connections and transforming models of support to divert people away from inappropriate use of and dependence on health and social care services. To succeed we need the Provider to work in partnership with the Council and to work effectively with commissioned and non-commissioned Providers and local communities. Outreach will be undertaken seven days a week. The outreach will be both proactive and assertive and take place during daytime, evenings and at weekends across the borough, to engage rough sleepers in the homelessness service. Specific focus will be given to Wigan and Leigh town centres however the service will need to respond to reports outside of these locations.

Wigan Council wishes to commission a suitable consultant to produce a new Asset Management Strategy by reviewing the key challenges facing the Council, developing proposals around how these challenges can be addressed ensuring high levels of decency and compliance are achieved, whilst also meeting our low carbon aspirations.

Wigan Council is seeking a supplier to carry out a programme of reactive and planned passive fire safety works including door repairs and replacements.

This tender is being issued to seek a contractor for the purposes of undertaking environmental enhancement works at Bickershaw Country Park to enable natural flood management by slowing the flow and enabling habitat creation. Interested bidders can obtain further details from the Invitation to Tender documentation which includes a full Specification for the works. The closing date for the submission of final tender bids is Wednesday 21st September 2022 at 17:00.

Wigan Council are seeking to appoint a Contractor to deliver an affordable housing project delivered within Wigan Council's direct delivery programme. The Contractor will be required to demolish a single storey former day nursery and carry out a redevelopment scheme comprising of 4 two bed and 2 one bed bungalows on the site at Priory Road, Ashton

This is a "Call off" from Lot 12 of the "Ethical Community Living Framework". This service will be based upon a reformed model of care and support in the community delivering with a range of partners' initiatives in support of prevention and early help. The service will promote and support self-care so that people may sustain and improve their own health and wellbeing. Regular monitoring and support will enable those less able to progress toward a position of self-care. Self-care approaches will divert people away from accessing services in an unplanned way and reducing long-term reliance on health and social care services. The service will work in partnership to develop a model of recovery from drugs and alcohol that advocates real improvements for all those people affected by directly responding to care needs through the provision of clinical interventions but also by promoting recovery and addressing the wider needs and determinants of health and wellbeing. The Provider will deliver the service on an open access basis for all residents, enabling and supporting self and wider agency referrals. In consultation, the Provider will be expected to continue to develop ways to increase access and uptake of all elements of the service. Agency sectors and population segments will be identified and prioritised where there is an under-representation, high need or expressed need identified by Commissioners.

Wigan Council is looking for an event management company/entertainment provider to curate, deliver and manage four stage programmes to complement Wigan Council's Christmas events delivery on Saturday 19th November 2022, Sunday 20th November 2022, Saturday 26th November 2022, and Sunday 27th November 2022 within the budget of £49,999 (exc, VAT). The event spaces are large enough to accommodate between 3,000 and 5,000 people at any one time (depending on layout) and will be free to attend. The target demographic is families with young children 12 and under. The Leigh events will take place from Leigh Town Hall and Spinning Gate Shopping Centre car park and the Wigan events will take place from Wigan town centre. The closing date for the submission of bids is Friday 30th September 2022 at 12:00 noon.