Official UK procurement notice
ID 2642050 DfE - Skills for Life and Work Programme
Authority: ID 2642050 Department for the Economy (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSkills for Life and Work professional and technical skills training provision will be offered to young people aged 16-17 (under 22 years for those with a disability and under 24 years for those from an in-care background) who normally will not possess a full level 1 qualification (defined as 4 GCSEs at grades D-G) and who have not yet gained full-time employment. Existing Training for Success contracts will expire on 31 July 2021 and an interim programme option (Skills for Life and Work) is therefore required to ensure continuity of training provision and to meet ongoing need of Entry Level/Level 1 skills provision amongst this cohort of young people. The overarching aim of this project is to ensure that a network of quality providers eligible to deliver Skills for Life and Work is in place from September 2021. It is anticipated that the Programme will be delivered by a mix of training organisations drawn from the non-statutory sector and FE statutory sector.
CPV: Education and training services · Industrial and technical training services · Industrial training services · Personal development training services · Technical and vocational secondary education services · Technical training services · Training programme services · Training services · Vocational training services · Youth education services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat 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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- AC1 Teaching and Learning: 25%
- AC2 Staffing: 25%
- AC3 Resource Access: 15%
- AC4 Leadership and Management: 25%
- AC5 Partnerships: 10%
Published award criteria (6)
- AC1 Teaching and Learning: 25
- AC2 Staffing: 25
- AC3 Resource Access: 15
- AC4 Leadership and Management: 25
- AC5 Partnerships: 10
- Payments from DfE - no pricing: 0
- Technical & professional ability
SC1 Company Experience. SC2 Use of Sub-Contractors. SC3 Qualification Requirements for Learning Delivery Personnel. SC4 Completion of Bid Spreadsheet
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- 14 Jan 2021, 12:08 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Jan 2021, 12:08 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 18 Feb 2021 – …
- Authority reference
ID 2642050- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-000752- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-028a44Find a Tender
- Review procedure
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful. tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
Publisher note: The Contractor’s performance on the Contract will be regularly monitored. A Contractor not delivering on Contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a Contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of Contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of Contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the Contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance may result in the Contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for up to three years.. . The Department for the Economy (the Client) will have its own procedures in place to monitor and review each Contractor’s performance. The Client will use the outputs from these contract monitoring procedures to monitor and review the Contractor’s performance..
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 18 Feb 2021, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 18 Feb 2021, 15:30 GMT
Timeline
14 Jan 2021 → 19 May 2021 · 4 dates- Notice published14 Jan 2021, 12:08 GMT
- Submission deadline18 Feb 2021, 15:00 GMT
- Bids opened18 Feb 2021, 15:30 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until19 May 2021, 23:59 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any special review body with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures in public procurement.Review body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.