Published date: 4 May 2022

Last edited date: 18 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.


Closing: 24 June 2022, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £13,400,000

Procurement reference

tender_249299/1066703

Published date

4 May 2022

Closing date

24 June 2022

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 April 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Not applicable

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?

Yes

Description

Organisations are now being invited to apply for grant funding to run the WorldSkills UK programme from 2023.

The period of grant funding will be for 2 years initially from April 2023 to March 2025 with the possibility to extend. It will be awarded to a single bidder or consortium and the current level of expected funding is a maximum of £13.4m for the 2-year period.

In 1953 the UK government established the WorldSkills UK programme as the Governments representative in WorldSkills International, representing and working on behalf of the UK's Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET) system to gain maximum insight and to raise standards in the UK TVET system. The Department for Education (DfE) has grant funded a non-government organisation to operate as WorldSkills UK (WSUK) in recent years.

The DfE wants WorldSkills UK to use the UK's membership of WorldSkills International and WorldSkills Europe to support raising both awareness and the national standards of technical and vocational provision. International skills competitions occur every year with upcoming competitions scheduled in Poland 2023, Lyon 2024 and Herning 2025.

Team UK's performance in future international Skills competitions and individual colleges' and competitors' performances in the national skills competitions should act as a barometer for the progress being made in transforming our Further Education sector to a world class standard.

We require the organisation operating as WorldSkills in the UK to use their access to international best practice and cutting-edge technical content and distribute it to young people, businesses, employers, training providers, educational establishments and their workforce. This is to support raising their standards and quality of technical and vocational provision.

More information

Links

Additional text

Applications for this grant close on Friday 24th June 2022.
Evaluation of applications and selection of the successful applicant will take place swiftly after to allow sufficient time to prepare for the new grant starting in 2023.

Interested organisations wishing to apply for this grant must:
1) Register for a Jaggaer account (DfE's eTendering Portal) here https://education.app.jaggaer.com
2) Go to the live opportunities and select opportunity: ITT:itt_1201-WorldSkills UK Grant.
3) There you will have access to the full application document suite.

About the buyer

Address

​​​​​​​Cheylesmore House, 5 Quinton Road
Coventry
CV1 2WT
England

Email

WorldSkills.UK@education.gov.uk