The Heritage Fund is seeking expert consultants to apply to our new RoSS Framework – the Register of Support Services (RoSS) is a framework of external consultants -from April 2024, with applications closing 19 June.
… areas of expertise [include]….heritage and culture construction project management…. public engagement…
Heritage Fund writes:
Our expert RoSS consultants play an important role in monitoring projects we fund and mentoring grantees and potential applicants. They also provide expert advice to the Heritage Fund on the diverse range of projects and applications we fund.
Our register of consultants is split into four areas of expertise:
- heritage and culture construction project management
- business development and management
- public engagement with heritage
- natural environment
What do they do?
RoSS consultants provide a range of services:
- Monitoring support: analysing risks, commenting on project plans, reviewing budgets and progress against timescales and evaluating project impacts.
- Mentoring support: helping grantees develop their project, support learning and development activities and overcome barriers during the delivery of their project.
- Supporting Heritage Fund staff: providing training and advice on specialist subjects.
- Grantee discussion sessions: facilitating ‘mini-surgeries’ with grantees on various topics, such as volunteering.
- Post completion and operational readiness reviews: helping grantees understand the ‘readiness’ of projects to open to the public. Identifying post-completion risks and agreeing remedial actions.
- Supporting our engagement work: providing support to the Heritage Fund’s Engagement teams, for example when mentoring and engaging under-served applicants.
- Providing expert advice: supporting the Heritage Fund’s decision-making process by providing specialist advice on aspects of a project application.
- Providing support to groups of grantees: mentoring small groups of grantees, helping them to address challenges and encouraging them to network.
Our current frameworks
The current framework started on 1 April 2018 and will end on 31 March 2024.
We also have a framework specialising in digital heritage. This two-year framework started on 1 April 2022 and will end on 31 March 2024. It will not be re-tendered.
Procurement of the next framework
Consultants are appointed to the framework via a tendering process compliant with public sector procurement requirements.
Retendering of the RoSS framework is now live until 5pm Monday 19 June 2023. The evaluation and selection of tenders will be complete in late autumn 2023, and the new framework will begin in April 2024.
