Published date: 26 April 2022

Last edited date: 16 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: 18 May 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Training services - 80500000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£90,000

Procurement reference

C0422a

Published date

26 April 2022

Closing date

18 May 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

10 June 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

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

London Councils represents London's 32 borough councils and the City of London. It is a cross party organisation that works on behalf of all of its member authorities regardless of political persuasion. London Councils makes the case to government, the Mayor and others to get the best deal for Londoners and to ensure that our member authorities have the resources, freedoms and powers to do the best possible job for their residents and local businesses.

The organisation's race equality journey started in summer 2020 when colleagues at London Councils shared a clear appetite to establish how the organisation can be more proactive on race equality. We have since spent time outlining and framing the key steps we must take as an organisation to understand and define our role and responsibility. These key steps were initially and primarily reflected through recommendations put forward by an internal Race Equality task & finish group. These recommendations laid the grounding for our internal Race Equality Working Group's (the next phase of the task & finish group) subsequent activity to help shape our Corporate Strategy - this was comprised of the appointment of a Race Equality lead, engagement with all staff at London Councils and a range of initial actions and changes that have contributed to embedding race equality within the organisation (see Appendix C for a detailed outline of our journey).

London Councils employs c.130 people, including c.40 colleagues from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds - seven of these colleagues are in senior manager roles (additional information about our workforce's ethnic composition can be found in appendix C).

The core outcome of our internal race equality work to date has been to establish the strategic ambition for the organisation, as articulated in our new Corporate Race Equality Strategy 2022-25. The Strategy outlines the steps we are taking to strive towards becoming an anti-racist organisation.

To continue our race equality journey and help achieve our ambitions we want race equality to be central within our broader learning and development framework. Therefore we are seeking a contractor(s) to deliver the components of our learning and development ambitions, as outlined in the specification below.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

The Query Log will be uploaded here as and when queries are received - please check back throughout the advertising period for updates. We will aim to answer queries within 1 working day.

The deadline for queries is Noon, Friday 13 May, 2022. Queries received after this will not be answered.

Tenders queries should be sent to the Tenders email address and cc'd to the named contact - both available in the Tender document.

About the buyer

Contact name

Richard Merrington

Address

59 Half Southwark Street
LONDON
SE10AL
England

Email

Richard.Merrington@londoncouncils.gov.uk