Published date: 14 May 2021

This notice was replaced on 30 June 2021

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

Opportunity (published 6 October 2021)

Closed early engagement


Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Procurement reference

tender_272898/960443

Published date

14 May 2021

Closing date

9 June 2021

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Background:
'Emerging Skills' are defined as those related to 'Emerging Technologies' and necessary to exploit their application in industry as they become widespread. The technologies themselves may have existed for some time or be cutting-edge, but their diffusion into industry is at an early stage, with low take-up ahead of wide-scale adoption. Examples include industrial digitalisation technologies such as additive manufacturing, robotics, AI, electrification and advanced materials.

Following January's Skills for Jobs White Paper, we launched the first Emerging Skills Project in partnership with the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and the Institutes of Technology. This project uses the Skills Value Chain approach to stimulate the adoption of cutting-edge skills in a given sector. The Skills Value Chain is made up of three core activities, delivered collaboratively in succession:

- Foresighting, an activity that forecasts emerging skills in a sector and identifies the gap in current provision and future need.
- Development of open license training content to meet the gaps identified in foresighting.
- Skills Diffusion, which consists of:
o 'Train the trainer' days.
o Provision of no-charge trainee days to upskill employees in the new emerging skills training content.

In addition to announcing the first Emerging Skills Project, the White Paper also explored whether this Skills Value Chain approach can be used in other emerging skills areas and to support Government priorities such as net zero. The focus for this second, net-zero project, is electrification. This project will provide some of the skills needed to deliver Point 4 of the Government's ten-point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution - accelerating the shift to zero emission vehicles.

This procurement exercise is to put in place a contract to deliver the second two activities of the Skills Value Chain. The first activity, foresighting, will be delivered through a separate agreement. The services required are:

1. Development of short courses to meet emerging skills needs in electrification using the outputs from foresighting conducted in the Summer 2021.

2. Training and other necessary support of teaching staff in chosen providers to teach the courses developed at (1) through 'train the trainer' training days.

3. Delivery of courses developed at (1) to learner through the upskilling days for employees in the sector.

As the Skills Value Chain requires collaboration between organisations, we would expect bids to demonstration collaborative working.

More information

Additional text

The Department for Education would like to invite you to a Pre-Market engagement webinar event in respect of the below procurement:
Emerging Skills Programme in electrification
Event:
The event will be hosted via Microsoft Teams (dial in details will be shared via Eventbrite)
Date of Market Engagement event:
9th June 2021 - 3pm to 4pm
Closing date to register for the event:
7th June 2021 - 12:00 noon
Please register your interest by clicking on the Eventbrite link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emerging-skills-programme-in-electrification-pre-market-engagement-webinar-tickets-154230765371

Please note there are a limited number of tickets, therefore attendees should only request tickets for their own use. A maximum of 2 tickets per supplier will be permitted. Please do not share the link to the event with colleagues who have not registered for the event due to a limit in numbers of attendees.
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Event summary:
The purpose of this Pre-market Engagement event is to set out the proposed services, sourcing model and procurement process.
We would like to invite potential suppliers who are interested in delivering these services to register their interest in this market engagement event.

About the buyer

Address

Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

Julia.goodwin@education.gov.uk