New Enterprise Incentive Scheme

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme
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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Introduction
• The longest running employment programme
• 20 years of assistance to unemployed people
• Over 80 of participants achieve a positive
  outcome
• NEIS helps eligible unemployed people start run
  their new viable small business

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Services to be provided
• Provision of NEIS services includes
• Attracting and selecting eligible job seekers
• Delivering or arranging NEIS small business
  training
• Ensuring effective support
• Maintaining regular contact with participants
• Providing business guidance and counselling
• Providing suitable mentors to support
  participant needs
• Conducting business viability and income
  testing

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Participants
• To be eligible for NEIS assistance, prospective
  participants must be
• Fully Job Network Eligible
• Mature age job seekers not on income support
• Any other person as notified by DEWR in writing

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Prospective participants must
• Not be an undischarged bankrupt
• Have not received NEIS assistance in the previous
  two years or received NEIS assistance for a
  similar business activity
• Be at least 18 years of age at the time of
  signing a NEIS Participant Agreement
• Agree to hold and maintaining a controlling
  interest in the business during the terms of
  their NEIS Participant Agreement
• Be available to participate in NEIS training and
  work full-time in their business

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Business Eligibility
• Has not already commenced on a commercial basis
• Will be independent, reputable and lawful
• Has been assessed as commercially viable
• Is not based on the purchase or takeover of an
  existing business

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Referrals
• Job seekers may be referred to NEIS providers by
  Centrelink or Job Network members (JNMs)
• JNMs are the primary source of referrals
• 6,800 places annually

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Payment Model
• The NEIS fee will be paid on a fixed-fee basis
• 3,900 for participants in metropolitan and
  regional areas
• 7,450 for participants from designated remote
  ESAs
• The payment structure for NEIS is
• 80 per cent of the NEIS fee on achievement of a
  commencement
• 20 per cent of the NEIS fee on achievement of a
  post-programme outcome

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Fee prices will apply to all ESAs within the
  labour market region
• A different fee will apply for participants from
  designated remote ESAs
• The contract will specify the number of NEIS
  places that the NEIS provider may achieve

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Bidding for Business
• Roll over for current satisfactorily performing
  NEIS providers
• Business not extended will be subject to an open
  tender
• Tenderers bid for business at the Labour Market
  Region (LMR) level
• Tenderers must specify the Employment Service
  Areas in those LMRs that they will cover
• Tenderers will be asked to indicate a minimum and
  maximum number of places per LMR
• DEWR does not guarantee business levels

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Selection Criteria
• Criterion One
• Demonstrated experience in delivery of NEIS or
  similar services
• Describe the services you have delivered that are
  most relevant to delivering NEIS services
• Provide information about the level of
  outcomes/performance that was achieved in the
  delivery of NEIS or similar service
• Describe how achievement of these performance
  levels or outcomes demonstrate your ability to
  deliver NEIS services

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Criterion Two
• Proposed strategies to achieve outcomes for NEIS
• Proposed service delivery strategy
• Proposed management and administration support
• Proposed infrastructure (including IT)
• Describe how your organisation will strive for
  quality service delivery and continuous
  improvement

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New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

• Criterion Three
• Local strategies to promote, sustain and enhance
  the delivery of NEIS at ESA level
• Specific strategies to address the unique
  characteristics of this ESA
• How remote clients will be serviced
• How you will provide geographical coverage of the
  remote ESA

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Questions Feedback Website www.workplace.gov.a
u/ESpurchasing Tender Enquiry Line 1300 733
514 E-mail ESPurchasing_at_dewr.gov.au By 16
September 2005