Published date: 20 February 2025

Last edited date: 20 March 2025

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: 3 April 2025, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£1,200,000

Procurement reference

GSS25091

Published date

20 February 2025

Closing date

3 April 2025

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

1 May 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The final date and time for the submission of bids is Thursday 3rd April at 11:00am.

DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.

All tender information MUST be submitted through the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal.

Summary

The requirement is for the training, coaching and certification of Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) staff to develop skills and aptitudes to:

• Deliver a suite of improvement projects, further embed a culture of Continuous Improvement (CI) and a mindset shift to improvement proactivity and facilitate the removal of waste in processes. Training provision will focus on key activities that enable the approx. 3,000 workforce to add value to both internal and external customers.
• Pilot new ways of working. Redesigning future operating models, project delivery methods and culture to improve the effectiveness of the delivery of products, processes and services, and value to both internal and external customers. Where appropriate, STFC would like to evolve a culture which encourages experimentation, innovation, developing deep trust with their people, generating radical transparency and enabling distributed authority. In these areas, STFC want to train and deploy methods such as business agility and agile methodologies, where appropriate.
Procurement will cover all STFC training, coaching and learning in these CI and business agility areas, ensuring consistency of approach between staff in our many departments and directorates. This ensures we can better communicate, share lessons learned and benefits from improvement initiatives, while also enabling staff to work efficiently within many teams.


Please ensure you review all attached information to ensure a full understanding of this requirement. All attachments can be found with the Supplier Attachments tab within the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal.

This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria as set out in the RFP document.

How to Apply

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) will be using the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal for this procurement.

To register on the Jaggaer eSourcing portal please use the link https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/ and follow the instructions to register as a supplier.

If you are already registered on the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal and wish to participate in this procurement, please use the link: https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/.

Once you are logged into the system you will be able to locate the Procurement you wish to leave a bid on by clicking the ITTs Open to All Suppliers and searching for the reference number itt_1985 or GSS25091.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

GSS25091 Specialist training and coaching in continuous improvement (including but not limited to Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Business Agility, change leadership)

  • Early engagement
  • Published 31 January 2025

Attachments

Links

Additional text

DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO BUYER

All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations that apply to this opportunity.

Responses must be received by the date and time in the tender documentation; responses received outside of the deadline or not sent via the Jaggaer eSourcing portal will not be accepted or considered by the Contracting Authority further for this opportunity, unless a system outage is experienced, to which the Contracting Authority will advise upon accordingly. Interested organisations should ensure that they allow a sufficiency of time, prior to the deadline to allow all sections to be completed in full and any attachments to be uploaded.

As a user of the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal you will have access to the Jaggaer messaging service which facilitates all messages sent to you and from you, as well as other messages and updates in relation to any specific tender event. Please note that any and all information secured outside of the messaging service, shall have no Legal Standing, merit or worth and should not be relied upon by any organisation submitting a tender response.

Please note it is your organisations responsibility to access these messages on a regular basis to ensure you have sight of all relevant information applicable to this opportunity.

The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right:

i. not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and

ii. to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the procurement; and under no circumstances as part of your organisations participation in this opportunity, will the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by any organisation as a result. If the Contracting Authority decides to enter into a contract with any successful organisation(s), this does not mean that there is any guarantee of subsequent contracts being awarded. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of your organisation in doing so.

About UK Shared Business Services

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) brings a commercial attitude to the public sector; helping our contracting authorities to improve efficiency, generate savings and modernise.

Where UK SBS is not named as the Contracting Authority within the documentation, UK SBS will be acting as an agent on behalf of the Contracting Authority.

Our broad range of expert services is shared by our customers. This allows our customers the freedom to focus resources on core activities; innovating and transforming their own organisations.

For full details of our partner base please review the following link: http://www.uksbs.co.uk/services/procure/contracts/Pages/default.aspx

About the buyer

Address

Polaris House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793867000

Email

CoreServices@uksbs.co.uk