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Data and IT Apprenticeships

Buyer: West Northamptonshire Council →

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BuyerWest Northamptonshire Council
StatusClosed
Deadline23 Jul 2025
Value£480,000
Published25 Jun 2025

What is being bought

West Northants Council (WNC) invites tenders for the provision of Data Apprenticeships and IT Apprenticeships for its employed staff and locally maintained schools, as outlined in the Request for Quotation (RFQ). This opportunity is restricted to organisations listed on the Apprenticeship Providers and Assessment Register (APAR) as main providers, with an Ofsted rating of 'Good' or 'Outstanding', and offering quality apprenticeship provision as defined by Skills England

Delivery location

UKF24, GB

Categories

Training services 80500000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£480,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Training servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Training services (80500000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 806,6562 median · 47.9 average (3,113 of 6,656 with a bid count)3.2 average (3,415 of 6,656 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer8Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKF24135.5 median · 9 average (4 of 13 with a bid count)1.5 average (4 of 13 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)4553 median · 4 average (9 of 455 with a bid count)1.3 average (9 of 455 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-055301
Latest release ID034910-2025
Latest release timestampWed Jun 25 2025 08:13:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/034910-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-07-23T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-07-09T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsMust access RFQ document and submit clarification questions and RFQ responses via https://in-tendhost.co.uk/wnc/aspx/Home
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£480,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
25 Jun 2025tender034910-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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