Pertemps Receive £2.25 Million and Breach New Deal Contract

I am aware of some unknown until now New Deal training provider called Pertemps People Development Group that has received £2,259,282 even though they significantly breached their contract. This just goes to show that the Government consisting of greedy MP’s who recently have been exposed in the MP expenses scandal like to waste taxpayers’ money beyond what they can personally claim for You are free to personally inspect the report yourself at your own leisure at the link towards the bottom however to summarise sections of the report is as follows:

PPDG have not provided me with a narrative on how they will improve performance on the ‘Poor’ performing lines.

3PP have said that they are concerned that they have been made aware that some staff are under notice of redundancy

3PP feel as though job outcomes performance is very poor.

PPDG delivery staff are not aware of the delivery specification.

LDP are not being sent back to NDPA

They are all very similar and not being tailored to customers individually

I have spent a deal of time liasing with PPDG around the major non-compliance issues

Even though with these major breaches…

there are still major issues that need to be addressed to meet with contractual compliance, at this stage i would give a cautionary ‘satisfactory’ marking overall

They receive full payment, no sanctions or such like.
View scanned documents at: http://new-deal-work.info/monthly%20review2.html

All I can say is: I am glad I am not a taxpayer!

Oh and the following contractual snippet may be of some interest:

the following terms shall have the meanings set out below:

<!–[if !supportLists]–>14.2.1 <!–[endif]–>“Minor Breach” shall mean a delay or non-performance by the Provider of its obligations hereunder which does not materially, adversely and substantially affect the performance or delivery of the Programme;

<!–[if !supportLists]–>14.2.2 <!–[endif]–>“Serious Breach” shall mean

<!–[if !supportLists]–>14.2.2.1 <!–[endif]–>any breach or a series of Minor Breaches by the Provider of its obligations hereunder which adversely, materially and substantially affects the performance or delivery of the Programme(s) (or adversely affects the health and safety of staff or Participants); or

<!–[if !supportLists]–>14.2.2.2 <!–[endif]–>a Minor Breach of a specific obligation in respect of which Jobcentre Plus has served two consecutive Notices under Clause 14.4.1<!–[if gte mso 9]> 08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F00520065006600350030003300380032003500310032000000 <![endif]–> concerning the same or similar circumstances from where the Provider has failed to remedy that breach under Clause 14.4.2<!–[if gte mso 9]> 08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000D0000005F00520065006600350030003300380032003500320033000000 <![endif]–>.

If a serious breach has not been improved in a reasonable time scale than the Jobcentre can serve a 28 day notice to terminate the contract.