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title: "Academic Training"
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# Academic Training

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/academic-training-ocds-h6vhtk-029ba5). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION PLC: "Academic Training". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: Value not published. 2 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 15 Apr 2021. Published submission portal: rfxxp.westernpower.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION PLC](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-grid-electricity-distribution-plc-coh-09223384)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 15 April 2021 at 01:00 BST
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-029ba5`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/academic-training-ocds-h6vhtk-029ba5#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [rfxxp.westernpower.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Frfxxp.westernpower.co.uk%2FECE)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/academic-training-ocds-h6vhtk-029ba5#participate

## Description
To provide Academic Training in-line with guidance issued by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) that can be found in Apprenticeship funding rules and WPD's Policies and Procedures.

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: Level 2 and Level 3
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Description:** Level 2 - City & Guilds 2304-17 (60371791)
Level 3 - EAL Subsidiary Diploma Engineering Technologies (60157999)

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: Level 4
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Description:** Level 4 - BTEC Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** Academic Training at Level 2 - C&G 2304-17 and Level 3 - EAL Subsidiary Diploma Engineering Technologies (active)
  - Award id: `022751-2021-303929-1`
  - Supplier(s): **The SMB Group**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-28232`

- **Award:** Academic Training at Level 2 - C&G 2304-17, Level 3 - EAL Subsidiary Diploma Engineering Technologies and Level 4 BTEC Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering (active)
  - Award id: `022751-2021-303930-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Bridgwater & Taunton College**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-89363`

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** Academic Training at Level 2 - C&G 2304-17 and Level 3 - EAL Subsidiary Diploma Engineering Technologies (active)

  - Signed Date: 31/08/2021

- **Contract:** Academic Training at Level 2 - C&G 2304-17, Level 3 - EAL Subsidiary Diploma Engineering Technologies and Level 4 BTEC Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering (active)

  - Signed Date: 31/08/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F022751-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-09-14T07:53:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T12:33:16.069Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-029ba5