Published date: 17 February 2021

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: 3 March 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

  • Adult and other education services - 80400000

Location of contract

EC2P 2EJ

Value of contract

£75,000

Procurement reference

tender_265711/926462

Published date

17 February 2021

Closing date

3 March 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

12 March 2021

Contract end date

1 February 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?

No

Description

The City Corporation is seeking to appoint a training organisation to provide functional skills in English and mathematics training primarily to London residents who are disadvantaged and/or suffering deprivation arising from one or a combination of factors including, but not restricted to, poverty, health, housing or education. There may also a requirement to deliver functional skills in English and mathematics to a small number of apprentices employed by the City Corporation.

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) invites Training Organizations able to deliver demonstrably high-quality, highly successful, functional skills training in English and mathematics to the national Functional Skills Standards in English and mathematics at all levels from Entry 1 to Level 2 to quote for the provision of this service. Please note that learners registered after 1 September 2019 will work towards the reformed qualifications in these subjects. Further information on the legacy and reformed qualifications can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/functional-skills-qualifications-requirements

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

Training organisations must be on the published Register of Training Organisations. 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 funding rules, provide the City Corporation with the necessary and sufficient information to complete the Individualised 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 100 enrolments of English and mathematics functional skills across entry level to level 2 up to a maximum contract value of £75k. Learners can be enrolled from 1st March 2021 or the contract start date whichever is the later and must have completed their functional skills qualification(s) in full by 1st February 2022.

More information

Additional text

To bid for this opportunity, suppliers must be registered on the Capital E Sourcing online tendering platform. The home page for this website can be found at the following address: https://www.capitalesourcing.com/web/login.shtml

Once registered, the tender should be identifiable using the following project code: prj_COL_18407

About the buyer

Contact name

Commissioning Team

Address

Guildhall, PO Box 270
London
EC2P 2EJ
England

Email

commissioning@cityoflondon.gov.uk