Published date: 5 February 2020

This notice was replaced on 19 June 2020

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 4 May 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.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

B19 3SD

Value of contract

£4,000,000 to £7,500,000

Procurement reference

tender_230215/831583

Published date

5 February 2020

Closing date

6 March 2020

Contract start date

1 May 2020

Contract end date

31 July 2021

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.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

WMCA is establishing a suite of Adult Education Budget Service Contracts through this procurement exercise, with a total estimated value of up to £4m for the initial 15 month period. It is WMCA's intention that contracts awarded will initially be awarded for 15 months (academic year 2019 to 2020), with an option to extend for a further year up to July 2022. The value of the contract extension is still to be confirmed.

Lot Structure
WMCA has split this procurement activity into three Lots:

Lot 4 - Support for those in Employment
Lot 4 includes:
- Focus on new learning to support career progression
- A flexible adult offer to enable those who seek to re-train and up-skill
- Particular focus but not exclusive to those in low-paid, low-skilled and insecure jobs
- Level 2, 3 and 4
- Funding subsidies available to support L3 and L4
- Pre-apprenticeship provision that supports uptake of Apprenticeships

Lot 5 - Birmingham Commonwealth Games
Lot 5 includes:
- Particular focus on young people aged between 19 and 30 and unemployed adults aged 30+ through level 3 provision
- Technical skills at level 3 supporting event management, digital marketing, hospitality, sports coaching and team leading.

Lot 6 - Coventry City of Culture
Focus on creative, digital and tourism to prepare those individuals not working in the city least likely to have the skills, confidence or access to the programmes the city of culture trust, will be running (including volunteering, apprenticeships and events-based jobs). The development delivered through these programmes should move individual to the point where they are able to access and compete for opportunities created as a result of the City of Culture.
One of the potential outcomes that individuals may be prepared to access is the "city hosts" programme - a crew of 5,000 individuals trained to provide the best possible welcome to the city for visitors. This, alongside apprenticeships and events related jobs in hospitality, production, sales, customer service, event management, security and tourism sectors are the type of opportunities that people should be supported to access.

Bidders can submit proposals for as many lots as they wish. For completeness, it should be noted that the lots in this tender opportunity are listed from 4 - 6. The reason for the lot numbering is to follow on from the award of lots 1-3 from the first AEB tender round that was undertaken in 2019.


Meet the Buyer Event:
A Meet the Buyer event has been proposed to address any clarification queries in relation to the tender documents or tender process. The event will take place on 12th February 2020 at
The Studio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham, B2 5EP.

To register for this event, please visit the below Eventbrite link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/west-midlands-combined-authority-adult-education-meet-the-buyer-event-tickets-91604237741?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Please see the additional text section of this notice for more information

More information

Links

Additional text

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

To express an interest in this opportunity, please register on https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk/ and the express an interest on the following:

PROJECT_326-Adult Education Budget 2
ITT: itt_736 - ITT for Adult Education Budget 2

Guidance on how to register on the Bravo Solution Portal can be found here:
https://www.wmca.org.uk/media/1692/wmca_etendering_supplier_registration_guide_2016,pdf

About the buyer

Contact name

West Midlands Combined Authority

Address

16 Summer Lane
Birmingham
B19 3SD
England

Email

procurement.team@wmca.org.uk

Website

https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk/