Overview Third Sector Sector Contracting Programme

							Overview: Third Sector
Contracting Programme

October 2009
What is the Third Sector Contracting
Programme?

   Aim: To improve public service outcomes by enabling
    effective third sector providers to access public service
    markets.

   Objective: To identify and remove the barriers to
    market entry faced by third sector organisations in
    relation to specific contracting opportunities.

   Output: At least 25,000 new jobs have been created in
    the third sector by securing contracts to deliver public
    services by 2011.

   Timescale: September 09 – September 10
What is the background and context?
   Government commitment in Working Together: Public
    Services on your side – Create 25,000 new jobs in the third
    sector through involvement in public services.

   Agreement from Prime Minister for now Chief Secretary to
    the Treasury to establish a MISC Cabinet Committee to
    oversee the delivery of this commitment (MISC 37).

   Builds on existing Government work on the third sector’s
    involvement in public services (e.g. National Training
    Programme for Third Sector Commissioning; Glover
    Review; National Indicator 7 – ‘creating an environment for
    a thriving third sector’)

   Distinctive Feature: Focus on the removal of barriers to
    specific contracting opportunities and application of this
    micro level learning to inform wider public service reform.
Programme Delivery Structure (1/3)



           MISC Cabinet Committee on
             the Third Sector: MISC37
     Chaired by Chief Secretary to the Treasury

                     Advisory Group
               Chaired by Bob Ricketts, DH

                Office of the Third Sector:
               Third Sector Contracting Unit
MISC 37: Terms of Reference




 “To consider issues relating to the
 third sector’s involvement in public
           service delivery”

Next Meeting Date: 1st Dec (TBC)
 MISC Cabinet Committee Members

Department
Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Chair)
Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
Secretary of State for Health
Minister for the Cabinet Office
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Minister of State, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Programme Delivery Structure (2/3)



                 MISC Cabinet Committee on
                   the Third Sector: MISC37
           Chaired by Chief Secretary to the Treasury

              Advisory Group
        Chaired by Bob Ricketts, DH

            Office of the Third Sector:
           Third Sector Contracting Unit
Advisory Group Role
1. To advise the MISC Cabinet Committee on the third
   sector: MISC37;

2. To support the implementation of the agreed responses
   of the MISC Cabinet Committee on the third sector; and

3. To share learning during and following the
   implementation of the MISC Cabinet Committee’s
   agreed responses in order to inform future analysis of
   public service contracting opportunities

Next Meeting Date: Jan (TBC)
    Advisory Body Members

•    Officials from all departments represented on the MISC37
     Cabinet Committee: Department of Health; Communities and
     Local Government; Department for Work and Pensions;
     Department for Children, Schools and Families; Department
     for Business, Innovation and Skills; Home Office; Ministry of
     Justice; Office of Government Commerce; and HM Treasury

•    Third sector representative bodies: ACEVO; Social
     Enterprise Coalition; NAVCA; Social Firms UK; Co-operatives
     UK; NCVO; Development Trusts Association.

•    Other key stakeholders: Member of OTS Advisory Body;
     Local Government Association; Futurebuilders England;
     Commission on 2020 Public Services: Government Office
     London (representing the GO network).
Programme Delivery Structure (3/3)



                MISC Cabinet Committee on
                  the Third Sector: MISC37
          Chaired by Chief Secretary to the Treasury

                      Advisory Group
                Chaired by Bob Ricketts, DH

             Office of the Third Sector:
            Third Sector Contracting Unit
Cross Departmental Delivery Team:
Third Sector Contracting Unit

                                     Third Sector Contracting Unit
                                  Hilary Norman – Team Management
                                  Emma Jones – Project Management


              Opportunity Identification          Recommendation                   Implementation
                    and Analysis                    Development                     and Learning


  Lucy Williams, DWP                Cheryl Turner, LSC              Darron Cox, PWC
       (2.5 days)                       (2.5 days)                      (3 days)


  Janet Moore, DCSF                                                Emma Nightingale,
        (1 day)                    Spencer Draper, MoJ               Home Office
                                         (1 day)                      (2 days)


   Manisha Misri, PWC               Ekua Boateng, OTS              Karen Peck, LB Sutton
  (2 days for 2 months)                                                   (1 day)
  Third Sector Contracting Unit:
  Objectives

          Opportunity
                                      Recommend                  Implementat
          Identificatio
                                            ation                        ion
                      n
                                      Developmen                         and
                   and
                                                t                   Learning
             Analysis



                                     To develop
To identify and prioritise      recommendations in           To support and advise
     public service           relation to the prioritised         OGDs in the
      contracting            public service contracting      implementation of the
 opportunities on which          opportunities which         decisions of MISC 37;
  the Programme will            remove the identified                  and
          focus               barriers to market entry.     To formulate and share
                                                            lessons about the most
                             Recommendations to be              effective ways of
                             considered and agreed            involving of the third
                                  by MISC 37                sector in public service
                                                                    markets.
What is the value of this Programme?

   Overall aim: To improve public service outcomes by
    enabling effective third sector providers to access
    public service markets.

   Opportunity to consider systematically specific
    contracting opportunities and how enabling third sector
    involvement could improve outcomes

   Additional capacity and support from OTS to consider
    and address some of the barriers faced by the third
    sector, as key delivery agents

   Opportunity to gather lessons and robust evidence
    about what works in practice and how wider
    commissioning practices may be improved in the
    longer-term.
What does this mean for you?

As a third sector organisation…

   Opportunity to help improve the delivery of
    Programme’s current priorities (Future Jobs Fund,
    Flexible New Deal 2 and Civil Legal Aid)

   Opportunity to share real time concerns and feedback
    about live contracts

   Opportunity to make recommendations that will inform
    future procurement practices in relation to specific
    contracting opportunities during 2010
Contact Us:

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address



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