Published date: 8 March 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 1 April 2022, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£0.01

Procurement reference

BC/02338

Published date

8 March 2022

Closing date

1 April 2022

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

25 April 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

This is an accelerated procedure.

Justification

We received approval on the new holiday course concept & budget on 15 February. The June-August period is the key period when countries offer holiday courses. If we were unable to procure content for this year, then the project would be delayed until 2023.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

British Council activities in English span a global English teaching centre network of 140 centres in 50 countries, teaching 400,000 students each year (of whom approximately 50% are Young Learners) and a portfolio of free and paid-for digital products and services, reaching 120 million English learners (of whom approximately 20% are Young Learners).
Many centres in the British Council Network offer Young Learner holiday courses on top of their regular academic year programmes. These courses take place at different times during the year.
An initial internal piece of research conducted in late 2018 obtained responses from 26 centres across EA, EU, MENA & South Asia. This research highlighted that these courses are planned locally and vary in length, structure & content.
Pre-Covid there were signs that the market for holiday courses was growing & competition from direct & indirect competitors was increasing during holiday periods. We believe there is an opportunity to rationalise our holiday course portfolio and develop a global holiday course which will deliver a consistently high quality and enjoyable experience for our learners and their parents.
The British Council is looking to procure the core English language learning content for this project from Supplier(s).

More information

Additional text

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About the buyer

Contact name

Brian D'Mello

Address

1 Redman Place
LONDON
E201JQ
England

Email

brian.dmello@britishcouncil.org