Published date: 10 June 2020

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: 10 July 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£100,000,000

Procurement reference

C1546.321

Published date

10 June 2020

Closing date

10 July 2020

Contract start date

1 September 2020

Contract end date

1 August 2024

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

The Level 2 Business Administration apprenticeship framework has been a vital entry level route into the NHS for many years. With the removal of this framework from 31st July 2020 and no direct replacement apprenticeship standard HEE want to ensure that the NHS can still offer a Level 2 programme to attract new talent into the NHS and also offer existing staff the opportunity to move into administration roles. HEE are therefore launching a national procurement for a NHS specific Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner apprenticeship standard and welcome bids from national and regional providers to deliver a bespoke programme that will cover the wide range of administration and patient facing roles in the NHS from 1st August 2020.

Health Education England, on behalf of NHS (and other public sector) employers nationally are looking for suitably qualified apprenticeship training organisations to adapt the Customer Service Practitioner (L2) standard to reflect the business and operational needs of health and social care, whilst fulfilling all the requirements of the Standard. This may be either national providers, or a mix of national and regional (including some NHS main providers), and could be either fully delivered by the training provider, or delivered in partnership with the employers where that capability and wish to do so exists.

HEE will be willing to work with the successful provider(s) to develop and adapt content, however the majority of that work will be expected to be carried out by the provider.

All responses must be via Salisbury NHSFT's Bravo procurement portal, under the existing Dynamic Purchasing System for Education.


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About the buyer

Contact name

Simon Dennis

Address

Salisbury NHSFT Managed Procurement Services
Odstock Road
Salisbury
SP2 8BJ
England

Email

Simon.Dennis@nhs.net

Website

https://nhs.bravosolution.co.uk/nhs_collaborative/web/login.html