Early Years Investment Fund Manager

This Contract Notice is issued by the Department for Education (DfE) and is an opportunity relating to the establishment of a funding vehicle (the “Early Years Investment Fund” (“EYIF”)) designed to increase the provision of early years places in England, focusing on those private and voluntary providers who will deliver the 30 hours of free childcare that will be available to working families from September 2017.

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Additional information: Registering to use Huddle and submission of PQQ responses: Requests to participate must be made by completion and return of a Pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ). The PQQ and other procurement documents (including the Descriptive Document) are available through the following URL link: https://files.mills-reeve.com/app?operation=pubopp&id=1472566682987X10A1A21A8Rwb8r

In order to submit a completed PQQ response Suppliers must register to use “Huddle” (which is the on-line platform to be used by the DfE for the remainder of this procurement process and through which completed PQQ responses must be submitted). Suppliers should therefore read the “Instructions to Suppliers” document, which is also available through the above link, and ensure they follow the instructions to register to use Huddle in good time to be able to submit a PQQ response by the PQQ response deadline.

The DfE reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award contracts/s and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award the contract/s in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.

The DfE shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any Supplier in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this notice or in participating in this procurement process, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the DfE reserves the right to change these.