Official UK procurement notice
ID 3336901 DfE ApprenticeshipsNI 2021 Programme (Apps21)
Authority: Department for the Economy (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Department for the Economy (DfE) is seeking Contractors to provide a new Apprenticeship contract (Apps21) to commence in August 2021. ApprenticeshipsNI 2021 provides Level 2 and Level 3 apprenticeship training provision for employed people who are contracted to work a minimum of 21 hours or more per week. The programme provides an opportunity to work towards completing an industry approved apprenticeship framework at Level 2 and/or Level 3 including a relevant competence based qualification, a knowledge based qualification where appropriate to the apprenticeship framework, employee rights and responsibilities modules and Essential Skills if required. For apprentices aged 16 – 24 years (young person), the Client funds 100 per cent of the cost of off-the-job training under the programme. For apprentices aged 25 years and over (adult) funding is paid at a rate of 50 per cent of the young person’s rate for specific frameworks aligned to priority economic sectors.
CPV: Computer courses · Computer training services · Computer-user familiarisation and training services · Education and training services · Environmental training services · Health and first-aid training services · Health training services · Industrial and technical training services · Industrial training services · Management training services · Personal development training services · Safety education services · +11 more
The lotProcurement structure
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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 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
- N/A: 0
- Technical & professional ability
SC1 Company Experience. SC2 Use of Sub-contractors. SC3 Qualification Requirements for Learning Delivery Personnel
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
- 24 Mar 2021, 10:56 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Mar 2021, 10:56 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 28 Apr 2021 – …
- Authority reference
ID 3336901- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-005945- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- 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
- 28 Apr 2021, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 28 Apr 2021, 15:30 BST
Timeline
24 Mar 2021 → 27 Jul 2021 · 4 dates- Notice published24 Mar 2021, 10:56 GMT
- Submission deadline28 Apr 2021, 15:00 BST
- Bids opened28 Apr 2021, 15:30 BST
- Bids must remain valid until27 Jul 2021, 23:59 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- European UnionFunder
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.