Official UK procurement notice
Building Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products in Local Authority Regulatory Services
Authority: Department for Business & Trade (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS) was established by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Strategy in 2018 and is the national regulator for product safety, legal metrology and construction products.
Our purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence
Local Authority Regulatory Services (LARS1) also have statutory obligations for the delivery of regulation with regard to product safety, legal metrology and construction products.
As national regulator for Product Safety and Legal Metrology, OPSS provides national capacity and supports local authority enforcement and coordination of national and local regulation. As the national regulator for Construction Products, it is building the national regulator function and establishing local authority capability.
The requirement is for Development and delivery of a specialist annual Learning & Development (L & D) programme in accordance with a detailed specification including, sourcing trainers, development of specialist technical course resources, all course administration including booking venues and delegate management.
CPV: Education and training services · Training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The contract requires the Supplier to deliver the following outputs:AwardedRenewalPublished value£750,000
The contract requires the Supplier to deliver the following outputs:
(i) Each year develop and deliver specialist, technical and practical products, e-learning packages, tools and activities. To be set out in a programme at the beginning of each year with clear learning objectives, dates & times, delivery method, numbers and evaluation approach.
(ii) Conduct ongoing evaluation of the learning and development of LARS within each year and throughout the lifetime of the contract as specified below.
(iii) At the end of each financial year submit a summary report of the evaluation to be agreed with OPSS, including but not limited to:
- details of activities
- number of training days,
- delegate satisfaction,
- evidence that learning objectives have been met;
- delegate and geographical take up
- Diversity and inclusion
(iv) Conduct and submit an annual assessment of learning and development needs ahead of each year’s delivery programme. This includes an assessment in to be conducted in the final year on the contract for (see Table 1 above).
(v) Provide metrics on request to support OPSS reporting and evaluation of the success of the programme.
(vi) Submit a quarterly performance report, outlining what has been delivered, with metrics which demonstrate key milestones and learning objectives being met and which support the overarching aims in paragraph 1.
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).
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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).
- Price
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 17 Mar 2023, 14:15 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Dec 2023, 14:46 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 17 Oct 2023 – …
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-037709- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03b3e6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 Oct 2023
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 90 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 17 Oct 2023, 16:00 BST
Timeline
17 Mar 2023 → 21 Dec 2023 · 4 dates- Next notice expected17 Mar 2023
- Submission deadline17 Oct 2023
- Bids opened17 Oct 2023, 16:00 BST
- Notice published21 Dec 2023, 14:46 GMT
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Sept 2023- Published value published: £750,00014 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
- Status changed to active14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
- Procurement method changed14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
- Deadline published: 17 Oct 202314 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
- Buyer details updated14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
- Status changed to complete21 Dec 2023, 14:46 GMT
- Buyer details updated21 Dec 2023, 14:46 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chartered Trading Standards Institute, FAAB Training Limitedjoint award | £749,048 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 037709-2023-1 · Chartered Trading Standards Institute, FAAB Training Limited
- Signed
- 6 Dec 2023
- Value
- £749,048
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial StrategyContracting authorityCentral purchasing bodyMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsGeneral public services
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- Chartered Trading Standards InstituteAwarded supplier
- FAAB Training LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.