Published date: 26 January 2017

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 1 February 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

25002

Published date

26 January 2017

Approach to market date

1 February 2017

Contract start date

1 July 2017

Contract end date

31 May 2018

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

NDORS (National Driver Offender Re-training Scheme) courses are currently being delivered by Essex County Council (ECC) on behalf of Essex Police, as an agreed disposal option for drivers and riders who have committed a traffic offence, such as excess speed or failing to comply with motorway regulations.

Essex County Council (ECC) will shortly be issuing a tender to appoint suitably qualified trainers onto a Framework Agreement to deliver a number of different education/coaching sessions under the National Driver Offender Re-training Scheme (NDORS). The tender will be released via our new supplier portal (iSupplier).

The Framework Agreement will comprise the following theory training courses which are to be delivered at venues throughout the Essex Police force area:

Lot 1: National Speed Awareness Course (NSAC)
Lot 2: National Motorway Speed Awareness Course (NMSAC)
Lot 3: National Motorway Compliance Course (NMCC)
Lot 4: Emergency cover for the following theory NDORS courses:
• National Speed Awareness Course (NSAC)
• National Speed Awareness Course - 20mph (NSAC 20)
• National Driver Alertness Course (NDAC)
• What's Driving Us (WDU)
• National Motorway Speed Awareness Course (NMSAC)
• National Motorway Compliance Course (NMCC)

A bidders' event is scheduled to be held on Wednesday 1st February 2017 from 6:30-8:30pm at Springfield Parish Centre, St. Augustine's Way, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 6GX. The purpose of the event will be to provide an overview of each of the courses, specifically the two new motorway courses, as well as providing guidance around the procurement process and ECC's new iSupplier Portal.

The iSupplier portal is your free-to-use gateway to ECC allowing you to participate in sourcing events, manage your account and track invoices and payments 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to attend the bidders' event, please confirm your attendance to: sophie.dunning@essex.gov.uk

More information

Spend profile

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Financial year Budget
2017/2018 £500,000

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Registration on iSupplier

To register on ECC iSupplier Portal, please visit the ECC website via the address above and click on the registration link.

Please note that registration must be in the name and address of the organisation that will be evaluated during the procurement exercise and the contracting party for the resulting contract. During the registration process you will be asked to confirm the bidding contact for your organisation, please note that only one email address (User Account) can be the bidding contact for each organisation on iSupplier, and this User Account will receive all relevant notifications relating to a particular procurement exercise.

Once registered please confirm the company name you are registered as, along with the 8-digit supplier reference to sophie.dunning@essex.gov.uk

About the buyer

Contact name

Sophie Dunning

Address

Essex County Council, County Hall
Market Road
Chelmsford
CM1 1QH
England

Email

sophie.dunning@essex.gov.uk

Website

http://www.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Supplying-Council/Pages/Supplier-portal.aspx