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Consortia Building

Learn how to build and succeed in consortia partnerships for social entrepreneurs. Explore different models, procurement changes, and the benefits of working in a consortium.

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Consortia Building

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  1. Consortia Building Sarah Crawley CEO Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs

  2. Building your Consortia • Context for growth in consortia working • Consortia models • Learning from existing consortia

  3. Context Changes in procurement – larger contracts Need to cut costs 3rd sector review [Dec 2007]: The future role of the 3rd sector in economic and social regeneration: HMT and OTS priorities for 2008/11 ‘ working on looking in detail at sub-contracting arrangements and models for consortia...’

  4. Who works in consortia? • There are collaborative programmes across all sectors – private, public and voluntary sectors. • Increasingly we see cross-sector partnerships – some large partnerships for example health services with PFI’s, Work Prog, Construction Industry,

  5. Why consortia? ● Reduction in grants and move to contracts ● Contract model of prime contractor/large contracts ● Building seamless service ● Offer higher quality ● Offer broader more inclusive services ● Risk transfered ● Access to new markets

  6. Consortia Models: 1 to 1 Organisation 2 Organisation 3 Organisation 1 Organisation 4 Organisation 7 Organisation 5 Organisation 6

  7. Lead agency Organisation 1 Organisation 2 Organisation 3 Organisation 7 Organisation 4 Organisation 6 Organisation 5

  8. Legally Constituted Consortia Organisation 1 Organisation 2 Organisation 3 Organisation 7 Organisation 4 Organisation 6 Organisation 6 Organisation 5

  9. Creating your consortia • Organisational questionnaire • Forming, storming, etc • 3 to 4 meetings [start up] • Focus on the tender opportunity asap • Formal agreements • Legal structure? • Finance, policies and procedures, quality etc

  10. Consortia success • Analysis of 14 consortia [Feb 2012] • Large and small • Different structures • Rural and urban • Topic based and sector based and both! • Partnership driven and tender driven • WNF B’ham – 6 led by 3rd sector = 12 of 34 contracts, £6 million of contracts

  11. What has been learnt? • They need to: • Understand the motivation to be a consortia • Understand each other’s organisations • Address issues of track record • Sort out the ground rules for working together • Ensure working agreements – (written) • Finance and Monitoring frameworks Governance [consortia and own org [board] • Be prepared to pull out

  12. Remember … • Don’t: • Underestimate the time and resource involved • Assume you can work without written agreements • Assume you won’t need legal or professional advice • Allow mission drift • Chase the money • Be too polite!

  13. Successful consortia have… • Shared vision • Clear leadership • Formal written agreements • An agreed approach to finance and quality • Common understanding & conflict resolution • Awareness of cultural differences • Accountability • Ongoing review

  14. Finally …….. • From our learning we have produced a toolkit available from www.i-se.co.uk iSE, Avoca Court, 23 Moseley Road, Digbeth, Birmingham B12 OHJ, 0121 771 1411

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