Published date: 19 May 2016

This notice was replaced on 19 May 2016

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

Awarded contract (published 21 March 2018)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Personnel-training services - 79632000

  • Staff development services - 79633000

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£40,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS PS16106

Published date

19 May 2016

Closing date

3 June 2016

Contract start date

1 July 2016

Contract end date

31 December 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is the UK's largest funder of independent environmental science, training and innovation, delivered through universities and research centres.

On behalf of the Belmont Forum, NERC is seeking to support the development of a globally-recognised cross-disciplinary training curriculum to expand human capacity in technology and data-intensive analysis methods for global change research.
The requirement of the Human Dimensions Champion (HDC) will be to coordinate the identification and analysis of existing training provision across all Belmont Forum members and related agencies, and organise a scoping workshop to define an overall curriculum. Further activities will develop from this point and include the production of a 'Belmont Certification' for courses on the curriculum and also ensuring the roll out of courses across Belmont Forum members.

Please refer to the attached documentation for the full specification.

More information

Attachments

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About the buyer

Contact name

Amelia Stroud

Address

North Star House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

Professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk