Official UK procurement notice
CWC25176 - Adult Education Learning Services
Authority: Wolverhampton City Council (Local council)
The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise is to identify organisations with the capacity, capability and experience to deliver high-quality Level 2 vocational qualifications and Sector-Based Pre-Employment for adults in Wolverhampton. Adult Education Wolverhampton (AEW), part of the Families Directorate at the City of Wolverhampton Council, is seeking information from providers to help shape future commissioning opportunities from the 2026/27 academic year onwards.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise is to identify organisations with the capacity, capability and experience to deliver high-quality Level 2 vocational qualifications and Sector-Based Pre-Employment for adults in Wolverhampton.
Adult Education Wolverhampton (AEW), part of the Families Directorate at the City of Wolverhampton Council, is seeking information from providers to help shape future commissioning opportunities from the 2026/27 academic year onwards. In particular, the Council wishes to understand the market's ability to deliver training that supports residents into employment within key priority sectors and responds to local labour market demand.
The PME will help the Council identify:
- The range of vocational qualifications available at Level 2.
- Capacity to deliver Sector-Based Pre-Employment programmes
- Experience of supporting unemployed and economically inactive adults into work.
- Existing employer partnerships and links to local recruitment needs.
- Innovative delivery models that improve participation, achievement and progression into employment.
Priority sectors may include, but are not limited to:
- Health and Social Care
- Construction and Green Skills
- Manufacturing and Engineering
- Logistics and Warehousing
- Digital and IT
- Customer Service and Business Administration
- Hospitality and Catering
The Council is particularly interested in provision that can support residents living in Wolverhampton's priority wards, individuals with low or no qualifications, unemployed adults, and those furthest from the labour market.
This PME is not a call for competition and does not constitute the commencement of a procurement process. Participation is voluntary and will not provide any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement exercise undertaken by the Council.
CPV: Education and training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Wolverhampton City Council buys Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up
Wolverhampton City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Education and training services (CPV 80) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 70 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid16% / 10%
2–338% / 39%
4–620% / 29%
7+26% / 22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate21% / 39%
Within ±2%62% / 42%
Above estimate17% / 19%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Our matching links this notice to “CWC23049 - Adult Education Learning Services Framework Agreement” of this authority, but none of the 4 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1CPV 80Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 80. The comparison uses that group.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 59 past lots.
1 bid10%
2–339%
4–629%
7+22%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
What this replaces i
57% title match.
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57% title match.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (57% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
CWC23049 - Adult Education Learning Services Framework Agreement — held by Bilston Resource Centre and TLC College (+1 more); no contract end date published.
Coming up in this sector
Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Nov 2026, 11:39 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Nov 2026, 11:39 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106584- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b863Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Nov 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published4 days ago10 Nov 2026, 11:39 GMT
- Today15 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 22 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Council is seeking feedback from providers who can deliver:
- Accredited Level 2 vocational qualifications aligned to local employment opportunities.
- Sector-Based Pre-Employment programmes incorporating training, employability support and employer engagement.
- Programmes that lead directly to interviews, work experience, job outcomes or progression into further learning.
- Delivery within Wolverhampton, including community venues and employer locations where appropriate.
- Flexible delivery models, including classroom, blended and workplace learning.
This Preliminary Market Engagement exercise is being conducted through a questionnaire. Providers interested in participating are required to register on www.wolverhamptontenders.com ↗, which is the Council's e-tendering portal. The questionnaire can be accessed, completed, and submitted through the portal.
- Contract startsin 289 days1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Nov 2026, 11:39 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender