Official UK procurement notice
Outsourced Qualifications Delivery Services
Authority: Sanctuary Housing Association (Housing)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSanctuary Group is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) with organisations that provide qualifications assessment and delivery services for vocational, professional and apprenticeship qualifications. This engagement will help inform the procurement strategy and future contracting approach for a potential outsourced qualifications delivery service.
The requirement is expected to include the delivery of qualifications across care, housing and business disciplines throughout England and Scotland, together with quality assurance, learner support and management information services. The scope may also include the transfer and ongoing management of existing qualification assessors under TUPE regulations where applicable.
Objectives of the Engagement
Sanctuary wishes to engage with the market to:
• Understand supplier capability, capacity and delivery models.
• Explore approaches to delivering qualifications across multiple disciplines and geographical regions.
• Understand experience of managing learner journeys, quality assurance and regulatory compliance.
• Gather feedback on potential lotting, contract structure and mobilisation requirements.
• Explore opportunities to maximise the use of available funding regimes and grant opportunities.
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• Understand supplier experience of TUPE transfers and workforce integration.
• Obtain market feedback to support the development of any future procurement process.
Potential Scope
The future requirement may include:
• Delivery of care, housing and business-related qualifications.
• Support for vocational qualifications, professional qualifications and apprenticeship pathways where applicable.
• Learner enrolment, , assessment and certification services.
• Progress monitoring, achievement tracking and reporting.
• Internal quality assurance and awarding body compliance.
• Management information and performance reporting.
• England and/or Scotland coverage.
• Potential TUPE transfer of existing assessors.
Market Engagement Webinar
Interested organisations are invited to attend a market engagement webinar via Teams.
Date: 9 October 2026
Time: 10:00am to 11:00am (BST)
The webinar will provide an overview of the proposed requirement, expected outcomes, procurement considerations and an opportunity for suppliers to ask questions.
Registration
Organisations wishing to participate should register their interest by emailing: [email protected] with the subject line "Outsourced Qualifications Delivery Services"
Please include:
• Organisation name
• Main contact name
• Email address
• Job title
• Areas of interest and expertise (for example Care, Housing, Business, England, Scotland)
Joining instructions will be provided to registered organisations in advance of the webinar. Only one person per organisation needs to register, the main contact can then forward the Teams link where appropriate.
Additional Information
Participation in this market engagement exercise is voluntary and will not influence the outcome of any future procurement process. Any future procurement opportunity will be advertised separately and interested organisations will need to participate in that process should they wish to be considered for contract award.
Sanctuary reserves the right to amend the scope described during this engagement and no commitment is made at this stage to commence a procurement process. The information gathered through this exercise will be used solely to inform Sanctuary's procurement strategy and requirements.
The estimated contract value and contract duration are currently being assessed and will be advised as part of the tender process following pre- market engagement.
CPV: Training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
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
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:32 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:32 BST
- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ca1
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedjust passed29 Sept 2026, 14:32 BST
- Market engagementin 9 days9 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
Market Engagement Webinar Interested organisations are invited to attend a market engagement webinar via Teams. Date: 9 October 2026 Time: 10:00am to 11:00am (BST) The webinar will provide an overview of the proposed requirement, expected outcomes, procurement considerations and an opportunity for more…
suppliers to ask questions. Registration Organisations wishing to participate should register their interest by emailing: [email protected] with the subject line "Outsourced Qualifications Delivery Services" Please include: • Organisation name • Main contact name • Email address • Job title • Areas of interest and expertise (for example Care, Housing, Business, England, Scotland) Joining instructions will be provided to registered organisations in advance of the webinar. Only one person per organisation needs to register, the main contact can then forward the Teams link where appropriate. Additional Information Participation in this market engagement exercise is voluntary and will not influence the outcome of any future procurement process. Any future procurement opportunity will be advertised separately and interested organisations will need to participate in that process should they wish to be considered for contract award. Sanctuary reserves the right to amend the scope described during this engagement and no commitment is made at this stage to commence a procurement process. The information gathered through this exercise will be used solely to inform Sanctuary's procurement strategy and requirements. - Tender notice expectedin 33 days1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 183 days1 Apr 2027, 01:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Sept 2026, 14:32 BSTUK2
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