Published date: 19 January 2017
This notice was replaced on 17 May 2017
This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:
Awarded contract (published 30 May 2017, last edited 30 May 2017)
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Contract summary
Industry
Customer services - 79342300
Recruitment services - 79600000
Education and training services - 80000000
Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisations - 98110000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£420,000
Procurement reference
1401
Published date
19 January 2017
Closing date
20 February 2017
Contract start date
15 March 2017
Contract end date
16 June 2017
Contract type
Supply 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 Post-16 Skills Plan published on 8 July 2016, outlines the Government's vision for technical education. The provision of work placements will be an integral part of the new reforms, because they will be critical to ensuring that young people on predominately classroom-based courses can develop the range of knowledge, skills and behaviours required for skilled employment in their field of study.
These technical reforms represent a major shift in practice for the post-16 sector: providers will be expected to increase the availability of work placements for a large proportion of their learners as well as offer more substantial placements, expected to last between 1 and 3 months (somewhere between 140 and 460 hours).
We seek an organisation to work with employers and post-16 institutions to design work placement projects to be tested in academic year 17/18. A substantial part of the work will be working with employers and post-16 institutions to identify what good substantial work placements look like, how to go about designing and setting them up and how effective work placements practice can vary by occupational area, to support employers and colleges to make this step change at the scale needed.
More information
Additional text
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The invitation to bid will be launched and managed through the NCTL e-procurement system, REDIMO2. Bidders who are not already registered on REDIMO2, will need to register their company details on the NCTL e-procurement portal in order to access this tender opportunity. Information about how to register is available at
Https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/account/login/?cid=DFE
About the buyer
Contact name
Sundy Mabey
Address
2 St Paul's Place,
Sheffield
S1 2FJ
England
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