The organisations (see list below) have been named as potential regional service providers by the trust and will compete to deliver NCS in 19 areas across England for three years from 2015. Seven of the 17 organisations hold current NCS delivery contracts.
They can bid to deliver the volunteering programme in any number of regions, but the trust has limited to seven the maximum number of regions that can be won by a single provider.
NCS Trust will evaluate the bids before inviting the top three for each region to be interviewed by a panel of judges.
The 17 shortlisted organisations, which include a range of education and youth service providers, were selected following a procurement process in April, which evaluated existing and potential providers against criteria such as value for money and quality.
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