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Published 17 Mar 2023, 14:15 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Building Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products in Local Authority Regulatory Services

Official notice

Authority: Department for Business & Trade (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£750,000exc. VAT · 1 value update0.1% below final estimate
Submissions closed 17 Oct 2023awarded 6 Dec 2023
Awarded to Chartered Trading Standards Institute, FAAB Training Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The 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 published
Lot #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.

Delivery: London
Extensions: This contract will be on a 1+1+1 basis, with the initial contract term being 12 months.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
  • 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)
Education and training servicesTraining services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03b3e6 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Jaggaer · Who buys & how to bid on JAGGAER
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free; latest Chrome/Edge/Firefox only — corporate browsers fail
Submission deadline
17 Oct 2023
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
17 Oct 2023, 16:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

17 Mar 2023 → 21 Dec 2023 · 4 dates
  1. Next notice expected
    17 Mar 2023
  2. Submission deadline
    17 Oct 2023
  3. Bids opened
    17 Oct 2023, 16:00 BST
  4. Notice published
    21 Dec 2023, 14:46 GMT

Notice history

7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Sept 2023
  1. Published value published: £750,000
    14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
  3. Procurement method changed
    14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
  4. Deadline published: 17 Oct 2023
    14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
  5. Buyer details updated
    14 Sept 2023, 17:14 BST
  6. Status changed to complete
    21 Dec 2023, 14:46 GMT
  7. Buyer details updated
    21 Dec 2023, 14:46 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £749,0481 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 1latest 6 Dec 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Chartered Trading Standards Institute, FAAB Training Limitedjoint award£749,048 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Department for Business and Trade

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsGeneral public services Old Admiralty Building, London, London, SW1A 2DYContact name, email

Consortium 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 London, LondonContact name, email

Bidders & participating suppliers

2 commercial parties on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.