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Children England – Love Your Tender – A guide to understanding contracting for small organisations – Free to download at: http://www.childrenengland.org.uk/resources/750 A hard copy of the guide available for £20 from Children England

Dorset for You web-site – Voluntary Sector – contains information relating to working with the Council at: http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=4124

The information includes the latest Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy and Action plan (October 2005)

DCC- The Third Sector Commissioning & Procurement Framework (November 2009) is currently in draft. It is due to be adopted by DCC in January 2010 and will then be made available on the Dorset for You web-site.

Tendering for Care – “The Handy Guide” to Tendering and Procurement – Free to download from: http://tiny.cc/Tcareguide

South West Development Centre – World Class Commissioning an introduction – Adding life to years and years to life – Free to download at: http://tiny.cc/swdc

South West Development Centre – Understanding Commissioning for voluntary and community organisations – Free to download at: http://tinyurl.com/ya3wdbe A Highly recommended booklet by Rebbecca Hardwick – it is a report on a series of workshops plus a teaching and learning tool with spaces for organisations to reflect on their practice and plan ahead.

NAVCA’s (National Ass’n for Voluntary and Community Action) Local Commissioning and Procurement Unit (LCPU) website http://www.navca.org.uk/localvs/lcp/news/

Has a number of very useful resources, and links to current news items including the following which will be of interest

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
The Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) has added 'Personalisation briefing: Implications for voluntary sector providers' to its series of 'at a glance' briefings on Personalisation.
Read more on the SCIE website http://www.scie.org.uk/adults/personalisation.asp

Do we need ISO?
Rachel Rhodes, LCPU's Commissioning and Procurement Adviser has written this article for the latest edition of Circulation, examining how quality systems and quality accreditation are scored in the selection or pre-qualification stage of a competitive tender process. Download the article (PDF 99KB) from www.navca.org.uk go to LCPU news

Pathways through the maze: a guide to procurement law published 2 November 2009

NAVCA and NCVO have jointly published Pathways Through the Maze, the first comprehensive guide to procurement regulations written for voluntary organisations and community groups.
The Guide answers the most common questions voluntary and community organisations have about procurement processes and explains the legal requirements applying to public bodies' procurement exercises and you can download it here http://tinyurl.com/pathwaysthrumaze as a pdf document


ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations)
Training http://tinyurl.com/acevo-training includes

From the Finance Hub resources at NCVO a set of helpful publications aimed at advisers but relevant to front line organisations looking at sustainable finance for their organisations and including one specifically on procurement and contracts
http://www.financehub.org.uk/introductory_guides.aspa