Request for Tender
Teach Tearmainn wishes to invite tenders for the development of a 5-year strategic plan for the organisation.

Context

Teach Tearmainn is a non-profit organisation, with charitable status, serving women, with or without children who are in or have been in abusive relationships. We are an evidence based continuous improvement, quality and leadership performance organisation. We ensure we involve and seek the input from the women we serve, the community and our stakeholders always.

Teach Tearmainn is the only specialised dedicated service working to address the issue of domestic violence in County Kildare. Set up in 1999, our dedicated Helpline has been operational since 2000, while our Information & Support service commenced in 2002. Our purpose-built state-of-the-art Women & Children’s Refuge was opened in 2014. Over this period, the organisation has built up a significant body of experience and expertise on the issue of violence against women. Our children and young person’s support service was established in 2018.

Supports:

We provide the following services:

• Women & Children’s Refuge and Safe Home Accommodation
• Outreach Services
• Children and Young Person’s Support Service
• Court Accompaniment Support
• Group Supports (women and children)
• Helpline
• Training and Education Support
• Advocacy
• Awareness Raising

Deliverables

Detailed information including the budget, timeframe and report headings are outlined in the project specification in Appendix I in the Tender document attached below..

The deliverables include:

• Desktop and Field Research and analysis
• Stakeholder participation including Funders, service users, Staff and Board of Teach Tearmainn
• Production of draft and final report
• To document and record facilitated sessions, interviews and the contextual review to inform the strategic plan.
• To provide printed and bound copies of the finalised strategic plan, for circulation to our stakeholders. 

Further Information and handling of queries

Every effort has been made to ensure that this tender call document contains all the necessary information for completion of tenders. However, in the interests of equity for all tenderers, requests for additional information, clarification on the contents of this document and all other queries of substance shall be made via email only to lorrainerowan@teachtearmainn.ie

Queries received by any other means or to any other email addresses will not be responded to. Responses to all queries received regarding this tender will be emailed to all interested parties.

Please see Tender document attached below.

Timetable

Any queries must be submitted via email to lorrainerowan@teachtearmainn.ie no later than 5pm on Monday 17th February 2025. Queries after this date will not be responded to.

A digital copy of the final tender must be emailed to lorrainerowan@teachtearmainn.ie no later than 5pm Monday 3rd March 2025.