Official UK procurement notice
2027 ECITB Scholarships Programme: ENGLAND London & South West Design & Draughting
Authority: ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD (Charity / VCSE)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is pleased to invite tender offers for our England London & Southwest Design and Draughting Scholarship Programme 2027.
Full details can be found within the procurement pack, which is downloadable within this Notice.
The ECITB is tendering for a contract for the delivery of the skills and knowledge required within the 2027 ECITB Scholarship Programme (England: London & South West D&D) with delivery from September 2027.
Pathway requirements (2 Years) can be found within the procurement pack, specifically detailed within the Cohort Requirements by Discipline and the Specification document.
England: London & South West Level 3 Design & Draughting (2 years)
**Please register your interest in this ITT to ensure you are included within the clarification (bidder question and answer) process by emailing: [email protected] ***
Thank you for your interest in the ECITB.
CPV: Education and training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£62,000
- Value
- £62,000 exc. VAT · £62,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Mandatory and discretionary pass/fail criteria Technical Criteria 80% weighting Price Criteria 20% weighting
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD buys Education and training services (CPV 80) — and who usually turns up
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD’s own published record, next to the East of England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Education and training services (CPV 80) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD
contract notices in 36 months: 16 in division 80 · 20 in all categories
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots. All 4 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices, which count bids assessed.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 15 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 20 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 16 notices.
East of England · Education and training services (CPV 80)
contract notices delivered in East of England in 36 months: 284 in division 80 (198 competed, 48 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 116 lots. 81 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 35 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 116 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 74 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 72 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 104 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 283 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 15 lots (division 80), applied to the £62,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:04 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:04 BST
- Authority reference
P2609-2- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077dc5Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today30 Sept 2026, 14:58 BST
- Clarification questions byin 21 days21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadlinein 26 days26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 92 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 Sept 2026- Tender notice published30 Sept 2026, 15:04 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT30 Sept 2026, 15:04 BST+0 days · was 26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Tender notice published30 Sept 2026, 14:58 BSTUK4
Published amendments (1)
Spelling corrections in title
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (8)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Invitation to Tender (ITT) for review and completion
- Bidding documents and specifications Pricing Schedule - for review and completion
- Bidding documents and specifications Draft Services Contractual Agreement
- Bidding documents and specifications Invitation to Tender (ITT) for review and completion (D&D)
- Bidding documents and specifications D&D Specification
- Bidding documents and specifications Cohort requirements by discipline
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender