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Multiply Numeracy Project

Buyer: Kent County Council →

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BuyerKent County Council
StatusClosed
Deadline1 Jan 2025
ValueValue not published
Published10 Oct 2022

What is being bought

Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3,500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over £1bn on goods and services and a population of 1.6m. The Multiply Programme was announced by the Department for Education in April 2022 – being part of a range of initiatives that aim to boost adult skills. The programme is for 19+ adults who do not have a GSCE at Grade 4 (or equivalent) and aims to help people improve their ability to understand and use maths in daily life, home, and work – from household finances, to helping children with homework, to making more sense of the facts in the media and improving employability / job prospects. Full details of the Multiply programme can be found in the Multiply Investment Prospectus: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multiply-funding-available-to-improvenumeracy-skills Kent County Council is looking to appoint Suppliers through a Dynamic Purchasing System, to provide this service. The DPS is for the procurement of social and other services referred to in Regulation 74 of the Public Contracts Regulations (2015) and as such, the intention is to use a light touch regime, rather than the full regime described in Regulation 34 (Dynamic Purchasing System). Please refer to the Invitation to Tender documentation a full timetable of indicative dates, including submission dates for the initial round and for the remainder of the DPS.

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Education and training services 80000000Education and training services 80000000

Lot details

Lot 1

The Multiply Numeracy Project follows the Department of Education's Multiply Investment Prospectus which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multiply-funding-available-to-improvenumeracy-skills Kent County Council has divided these interventions into the following. These interventions are to be delivered per district or countywide. Lot 1 - Intervention 1a - Courses designed to increase confidence with numbers for those needing the first steps towards formal numeracy qualifications - Engagement activities Lot 2 - Intervention 1b - Courses designed to increase confidence with numbers for those needing the first steps towards formal numeracy qualifications. - Non-accredited numeracy courses. Lot 3 - Intervention 2a - Courses designed to help people use numeracy to manage their money -Engagement activity Lot 4 - Intervention 2b - Courses designed to help people use numeracy to manage their money - Financial Literacy courses including money management. Lot 5 - Intervention 3a - Innovative numeracy programmes delivered together with employers – including courses designed to cover specific numeracy skills required in the workplace - Engagement activities. Lot 6 - Intervention 3b - Innovative numeracy programmes delivered together with employers – including courses designed to cover specific numeracy skills required in the workplace - Non-accredited numeracy courses. Lot 7 - Intervention 4a - Courses aimed at people who can’t apply for certain jobs because of lack of numeracy skills and/or to encourage people to upskill in numeracy order to access a certain job/career - Engagement activity. Lot 8 - Intervention 4b - Courses aimed at people who can’t apply for certain jobs because of lack of numeracy skills and/or to encourage people to upskill in numeracy order to access a certain job/career - Non-accredited numeracy courses. Lot 9 - Intervention 5 - New intensive and flexible numeracy courses targeted at people without Level 2 maths, leading to a Functional Skills Qualification - No Year 1 delivery as enough AEB to meet need Lot 10 - Intervention 6a - Courses for parents wanting to increase their numeracy skills in order to help their children, and help with their own progression - Engagement activities Lot 11 - Intervention 6b - Courses for parents wanting to increase their numeracy skills in order to help their children, and help with their own progression - Non-accredited numeracy courses Lot 12 - Intervention 7a - Numeracy courses aimed at prisoners, those recently released from prison or on temporary licence - Engagement activities. Lot 13 - Intervention 7b - Numeracy courses aimed at prisoners, those recently released from prison or on temporary licence - Non-accredited numeracy courses Lot 14 - Intervention 8a - Numeracy courses aimed at those 19 or over that are leaving, or have just left, the care system - Engagement activities. Lot 15 - Intervention 8b - Numeracy courses aimed at those 19 or over that are leaving, or have just left, the care system - Non-accredited numeracy courses. Lot 16 - Intervention 9a - Numeracy activities, courses or provision developed in partnership with community organisations and other partners aimed at engaging the hardest to reach learners = Engagement activities. Lot 17 - Intervention 9b - Numeracy activities, courses or provision developed in partnership with community organisations and other partners aimed at engaging the hardest to reach learners = Non-accredited numeracy courses. Lot 18 - Intervention 10 - Additional relevant maths modules embedded into other vocational courses - Non-accredited numeracy courses

Statusactive
Contract periodto 31 Mar 2025

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Education and training servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Education and training services (80000000); 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 buyer112.5 median · 3.8 average (4 of 11 with a bid count)1 average (4 of 11 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK2,7681 median · 22.1 average (1,595 of 2,768 with a bid count)2.2 average (1,755 of 2,768 with named award suppliers)Not published

“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 systemYes
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNo
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
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

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

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Latest release ID028383-2022
Latest release timestampMon Oct 10 2022 10:55:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsRestricted procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-01-01
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=e3cd9eb4-d838-ed11-8119-005056b64545
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
10 Oct 2022tender028383-2022

All source data

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

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