Published date: 8 April 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: 22 April 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

  • Adult and other education services - 80400000

Location of contract

EC2P 2EJ

Value of contract

£100,000

Procurement reference

tender_303880/1060337

Published date

8 April 2022

Closing date

22 April 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

27 April 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The City Corporation is seeking to appoint appoint a training provider for the delivery of a 12-week Cloud Computing training programme, including as a minimum:

- embedded employability skills,
- a personal portfolio project and
- guaranteed interviews for job-ready candidates.

The programme will be delivered to a minimum of 25 learners from groups that are currently underrepresented within the digital sector. This includes:

- Members of Black and Minority Ethnic Groups - particularly young black men, black men aged 50+, Bangladeshi and Pakistani women
- older people (aged50+),
- people employed below the London Living Wage,
- Women
- Young people aged 18-24
- Members of the deaf community
- People living with disabilities


This Request for Quotation (RFQ) invites Training Organisations able to deliver demonstrably high-quality, highly successful, digital skills at Level 3.
The winning provider must have:

- experience of delivering accredited Cloud Computing, Data, Cybersecurity and Coding training programmes
- the ability to deliver in-person and online
- an existing database of potential participants
- clear working relationships and agreements in place with digital and tech sector employers
- experience delivering AEB funding digital training programmes
- a track of record of supporting underrepresented groups (women, BAME and people with disabilities) into digital employment

This requirement will be on a subcontracting basis. A subcontractor as defined by the by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is an organisation that is engaged in a contractual and legally binding arrangement with one or more main providers, to deliver education and training provision that the ESFA funds. The City Corporation is the Main Provider (UKPRN: 10008915)

The City Corporation invites quotations from training providers that satisfy the criteria in the ESFA Funding rules:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rules-2021-to-2022 19

The selected Training Organisation must not agree to use any further delivery subcontracting for training and/or on-programme assessment to a second level.

The Training Organisation must keep to the ESFA/GLA/AEB rules, provide the City Corporation with the necessary and sufficient information to complete the Individual Learner Record (ILR) to ensure that the lead provider's data returns accurately reflect delivery information and must give the City Corporation, and any other person nominated by them, access to their premises and to all documents related to their delivery of funded training.

The City Corporation has a current requirement for up to 25 enrolments in Cloud Computing to level 3 up to a maximum contract value of £100k. Learners can be enrolled from 2nd May 2022, or the contract start date whichever is the later and must have completed their 12-week accredited programme by 31st August 2022.

More information

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About the buyer

Contact name

Commissioning Team

Address

Guildhall, PO Box 270
London
EC2P 2EJ
England

Email

commissioning@cityoflondon.gov.uk