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Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship

Buyer: Greater Manchester Combined Authority →

BuyerGreater Manchester Combined Authority
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published3 Apr 2025

What is being bought

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is intending to tender a contract for the delivery of the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) programme. The programme will be a joint delivery between GMP and Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) with Degree Awarding powers. The contract will seek engagement from providers willing to integrate into our existing student officer training team, based on our GMP training estate. The expectation would be that GMP will lead all operational learning and assessments in Years 1 & 2 and the successful provider deliver the academic learning and assessments of Years 2 and 3 of the PCDA. The tender will seek engagement from HEI providers who would consider committing to support and develop our training estate and infrastructure and, who have a proven track record for delivering high quality teaching and learning to student Police officers. Whilst the contracting Authority is the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, this contract will be tendered and managed by the Greater Manchester Police.

Delivery location

UKD, GB

Categories

Higher education services 80300000Adult-education services at university level 80430000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2031

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Higher education services, Adult-education services at university levelNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Higher education services (80300000); 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: UKD1825.5 median · 1,413 average (42 of 182 with a bid count)8.3 average (48 of 182 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 systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
A market engagement event for interested parties will be held at Greater Manchester Police premises on Thursday 22nd May 2025. This will include an introduction to the project, a chance to tour the site and the opportunity to ask questions. Further engagement will take place following that event. This may include the use of a supplier questionnaire, direct engagement with interested parties or any other form of supplier engagement relevant to the contract and requirements. Expressions of interest, and requests to book a place at the event in May 2025, must be made by contacting Ali Cordrey (GMP Procurement Manager) via email at procurement@gmp.police.uk. Clarifications may also be sought via the same address. Please quote reference A1016 on all correspondence.engagement30 Jun 2025scheduled

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-04fba6
Latest release ID012934-2025
Latest release timestampThu Apr 03 2025 15:56:54 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
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 release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
3 Apr 2025planning012934-2025
1 Apr 2025planning012383-2025

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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