How to win: Voluntary and Community Infrastructure Support Service - Preliminary Market Engagement

About this contract

Swindon Borough Council invites you to contribute to preliminary market engagement in relation to a Voluntary and Community Infrastructure Support Service and welcomes the views of providers on the questions set out in the accompanying questionnaire. The purpose of this engagement is to gather feedback from the market to help shape the final service specification and commercial model, ensuring the procurement delivers a high-quality, sustainable, and responsive infrastructure support service for the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector.

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Swindon Borough Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £798,448, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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