📋 Tender Overview
Contract awarded for Amsterdam youth work academy (aja) lot-0000, title: amsterdam youth work academy (aja), description: the amsterdam youth work academy (aja) was launched in 2024 as a municipal program and focuses on strengthening the craftsmanship of youth work. it does this by providing training to youth workers, facilitating research in the field, and connecting partners with each other. additionally, the aja also offers training on youth work to the management level of youth work organizations and policy advisors of the municipality. the aja is not only for the municipality of amsterdam. components, including the accredited profiles, are also accessible to youth workers from other municipalities. the assignment concerns a development assignment where the minimum frameworks are clear, but the end result after 4.5 years, and the path to it, is somewhat variable and uncertain. therefore, a phase for dialogue has been included in the present tender to provide space for bidders to develop the most suitable plan based on their own vision and expertise, based on the minimum frameworks. the municipality wishes to conclude an agreement for this assignment with one (collaboration of) party(ies), which: in collaboration with the important partners for the municipality of amsterdam in the areas of practice, research, and policy further shapes the aja within a period of a maximum of 4.5 years. the three-part foundation, training, research, and connection (sov), forms the core of the functioning of the aja and must therefore also be demonstrably anchored in the organizational form of the bidding party. a plan is drawn up for the structural anchoring of the aja in the 'youth work system' (development task) in amsterdam by january 2031. this plan must at least outline whether, and in what way, the aja (i) can be an independently operating organization without financial dependence on the municipality; or (ii) the aja is transferable to a (third) party in case the operation needs to be continued by a third party (as could be the case in the context of a new tender). estimated value excluding vat: 5400000.00 eur.Amsterdam youth work academy (aja)
