The Office of Social Impact Investment (OSII), on behalf of the NSW Government, is seeking proposals for social impact investments that advance the economic wellbeing of women in NSW with experience of disadvantage.
This tender opportunity has three primary goals:
- Advance the economic wellbeing of women facing disadvantage in NSW through impact investing
- Better understand the role and impact of job-focused social enterprises in delivering outcomes for the people of NSW
- Trial social impact investment and outcome-based contracting as an approach to supporting job-focused social enterprises in NSW
This tender is open to job-focused social enterprises. Multiple initiatives will be funded from a total funding pool of up to $5 million, and contracts will have a minimum duration of 2 years.
Initiatives must demonstrate that they have been designed with and for women.
RFT Type
Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.
Conditions for Participation
To be eligible to apply, your organisation must satisfy each of the below criteria:
- be a job focused social enterprise - defined for the purposes of this tender as a social enterprise that exists to provide employment, or pathways to employment for those most disadvantaged in the labour market, with a dedicated wrap-around support function.
- be able to operate the proposed service / program in NSW
- be a legal entity (or entities in the case of a joint proposal or consortia) with the capacity to contract and not be a sole trader
- have an Australian Business Number and be registered for GST.
