Published date: 12 May 2017

Last edited date: 12 May 2017

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 22 June 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£10,000,000 to £21,790,000

Procurement reference

1264

Published date

12 May 2017

Closing date

22 June 2015

Contract start date

31 July 2015

Contract end date

30 June 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

The contract with the incumbent supplier expires on 31 August 2015 and a new contract is being tendered to enable recruitment activity from September 2015 of a new intake for academic year 2016/17.
NCTL is therefore seeking a national training provider(s) to:

• deliver the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) accredited (or equivalent) doctorate level, initial training for educational psychologists to ensure a continual flow of newly qualified educational psychologists to the workforce in England.

• the programme will run on a three year cycle, and will include, year one university based with short practice placements, in years two and three trainees will work in an educational psychology service, alongside a senior educational psychologists on practice placement.

• the successful contractor (s) will need to deliver a continual supply of newly qualified educational psychologists to the workforce in England until 2019-20, with an option to for an additional intake from September 18 to be completed by 2021 subject to The Secretary of State priorities. This means:

• recruitment of 150 trainees on to ITEP in England starting in 2016 and a further intake of 150 starting in 2017


• the provision of high quality practice placements, that meet the HCPC and professions Practice Placement Partnership Framework standards, for all ITEP NCTL funded trainees in all three years as per course requirements.

• A regional spread of training provision across the north, midlands and southern (including London) England.

See 'Attachments' for further details.


More information

Attachments

Additional text

Registration for the procurement.
This procurement will be run through an e-procurement system Redimo2. Redimo2 is used for contracting for works, goods and services that are awarded following an electronic competitive tendering process. Registration allows organisations to e-tender for procurement opportunities.
If your organisation is interested in participating in this procurement (RFx101) you will need to register on Redimo2 (If you are not already). Please register at https://www.gov.uk/nctl-e-procurement-system-redimo


NB (This will be an open tender published through the 80000000 (educational services) classification code. Therefore to ensure notification when this opportunity goes live, please ensure that you register against this code.)
Please e-mail our helpdesk mailto:commercial.admin@education.gsi.gov.uk if you have any queries with registering your details on Redimo2.
Once the Invitation to Tender is launched it will be visible for bidders to respond. This Invitation to Tender is due to be launched on Friday 22 May 2015.
All Tender documentation will be made available from Redimo2 and Bidders should ensure that they have read all documentation prior to submitting a response.

All bidders may be required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement before key documents can be released via REDIMO. Bidders will be notified via REDIMO should this be required.

Where appropriate, the successful bidder will be required to deliver a Deed of Guarantee at the same time as the execution of the Agreement.


Award information

Awarded date

1 September 2015

Contract start date

1 September 2015

Contract end date

30 August 2019

Total value of contract

£14,500,000

This contract was awarded to 2 suppliers.

The University College London

Address

26 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AP

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Attachments

University of Manchester

Address

The School of Environment, Education and Development, Programme Director Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology, Room A5.16, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Attachments


About the buyer

Contact name

Sherida Kirby

Address

Learning and Conference Centre, Triumph Road
Nottingham
NG8 1DH
England

Email

commercial.admin@education.gsi.gov.uk