Published date: 20 April 2022

Last edited date: 6 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: 13 May 2022, 4pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Training services - 80500000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£25,000 to £50,000

Procurement reference

BIP681954662

Published date

20 April 2022

Closing date

13 May 2022

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

6 June 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2025

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

NOTE: This notice was updated on 06 May 2022 for the following reason: Deadline extended to take into account bank holiday(CITB are investing £30,000 in an innovative commission to provide virtual tasters in construction.
The successful supplier will need to provide a minimum of 15% match-funding.

CITB defines a taster as:

"short-duration insight into a construction working environment or particular career path(s), delivered physically or virtually.
Examples of tasters include but are not limited to:

•A 'day in the life' of presentation, giving an in-depth account of a particular role
•Site tours
•Open Days
•Work-shadowing"

The provider must ensure virtual tasters are of a standard and quality that positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and are engaging and informative to support individuals to make good career choices.

Primarily the supplier will need to work in close collaboration with CITB's commissioned Onsite Experience Hubs to ensure the virtual tasters are aligned to their needs, and the outputs from this commission can be successfully incorporated into the Onsite Experience programme (please see Annex A for more information on CITB's Onsite Experience Commission).

The scope of this commission has purposely been kept relatively broad to enable innovation. Any specific requirements are detailed in the following sections, which a supplier will be expected to meet.

This commission will run for an initial 12-month period to develop and launch the virtual construction tasters with the expectation that the supplier will include monitoring for an additional 12 months (minimum) post launch within their tender. Furthermore, the supplier will need to provide evidence of sustainability to ensure the virtual tasters can be rolled-out to a wider audience within the construction industry. They will also need to ensure there is an appropriate mechanism in place to monitor their reach and an embedded exit survey to monitor outcomes.)

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The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

About the buyer

Contact name

Kirsty.Woolsey@citb.co.uk

Address

Bircham Newton
King's Lynn
PE31 6RH
UK

Telephone

03004567000

Email

Kirsty.Woolsey@citb.co.uk