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New public sector contracting opportunities 12 October

Looking for contracting opportunities to deliver your services? Check out this week’s list of opportunities with approaching deadlines.

Social enterprise glossary

Glossary of terms related to social enterprise from Merseyside Social Enterprise Network.
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Collaborative working to generate income

This publication is one of a series of models covering the different ways that third sector organisations can work together. It is aimed at chief executives, managers, trustees, financial managers and infrastructure organisations.

Procurement and contracting

This guide by the NVCO and the Finance Hub, explains what is meant by procurement and contracting. Focusing on contracting to deliver public services, it provides a starting point to help organisations understand and navigate the complex realm of rules, procedures and practices that constitute public sector procurement.
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Financial management

This guide by the NVCO and the Finance Hub describes what is meant by ‘financial management’ and how voluntary and
community organisations can plan for, and move towards it. It outlines some sensible objectives, useful concepts and techniques for analysing situations, and guidance for actions and decisionmaking. It also highlights how all decision-making is dependent on [...]

Standard NHS contracts

A wide range of standard contracts to cover agreements between PCTs and providers for the delivery of NHS funded services.

No excuses. Embrace partnerships now

This report sets out the conclusions of the Third Sector Commissioning Task Force which was set up to promote a sound commercial relationship between commissioners of health and social care services and third sector as providers, and help remove barriers to entry for all potential providers of health and social care.

NHS commissioning - a perspective

In this article for Knowhow Nonprofit, Derek Miller, Director of Commissioning at a PCT outlines how third sector organisations can deliver services for the NHS. He discusses services contracting, the commissioning process, joint working, practice based commissioning and subcontracting opportunities.

Give your tender a winning chance

This guide from the Finance Hub helps you write a winning tender.

Commissioning from the VCS

This easy to use guide has been developed by the NCVO to help commissioners encourage more participation by the third sector. It covers the principles of intelligent commissioning and then outlines, step by step, what is needed by commissioners in order to make the most out of the potential contribution of the third sector.

Successful procurement and negotiation in the third sector

The Finance Hub provides a range of briefings around tendering and public service delivery for the third sector on its website.

Public service delivery for VCO’s – NCVO

This guide, by the NCVO, helps organisations when confronted with the complex realm of rules, procedures and practices that constitute the public sector procurement process.

Public service delivery – Know How Nonprofit

Know How Nonprofit have a wealth of information for third sector organisations wanting to get involved in public service delivery.

Introductory Pack on and Finance - Guide to Procurement and Contracting

This guide explains what is meant by procurement and contracting. It focuses on contracting to deliver public services and provides a starting point to help you understand and navigate the complex realm of rules, procedures and practices that constitute public sector procurement.

How to survive commissioning

Presentations from a NAVCA event on commissioning.

Charities and Public Service Delivery – An introduction and overview

This introduction to public service delivery by the Charity Commission is primarily aimed at smaller charities and those charities considering delivering public services for the first time but it is also useful to charities that are already delivering public services.

Personalisation: challenges and opportunities

In an article for Know How Nonprofit, Richard Gutch discusses the challenges and opportunities created by increasing personalisation of public service contracts.

Think Smart, Think Voluntary Sector

This is a publication, aimed at commissioners, which shows the value for money that the third sector can offer in the delivery of public sector contracts and explores some of the issues that can make it difficult for it to compete successfully for public sector contracts.

Improving Financial Relationships with the Third Sector: Guidance to Funders and Purchasers

This guidance is intended to help government departments, non-departmental public bodies and other funding bodies themselves distributing public money to the third sector.

A better return: setting the foundations for intelligent commissioning to achieve value for money

Based on research by the New Economics Foundation, the National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning has published this report on how spending on public services can be directed to achieve the best return for communities, the environment and the public purse.

Public service delivery action plan

In 2006 the Office of the Third Sector set out an action plan to enable an increase in public service delivery by the third sector.

Model of collaborative working - Joint working for public service delivery

This is one of a series of models covering the different ways that voluntary or community organisations can work together. It is aimed at chief executives, managers and trustees of organisations considering or undertaking public service delivery jointly with other voluntary organisations.

Consortia delivery of public services

This guide by the NCVO explores different aspects of three models of consortia delivery of public services by voluntary and community organisations.