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Southwark Creative and Cultural Skills Coordinator

Buyer: London Borough of Southwark →

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BuyerLondon Borough of Southwark
StatusClosed
Deadline22 Sept 2025
Value£125,000
Published22 Aug 2025

What is being bought

Over a 15-month period, the Provider shall: - Establish and coordinate a cohesive programme of locally-based creative and cultural sector upskilling opportunities (the 'skills programme') that support residents furthest from the labour market into employment in the sector or further learning/support as a pathway to employment. - Build capacity within the skills programme to increase the number of upskilling opportunities available to residents. - Explore how access to and progression from the skills programme can be improved for all participating residents, but especially those facing significant barriers to employment.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Research and development services and related consultancy services 73000000Education and training services 80000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£125,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Dec 2025 to 31 May 2027
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Provider's Proposal — A Provider’s Proposal addressing the following four quality criteria, no longer than twenty pages in Arial 12 with normal margins, incorporating: i. Expertise. A statement of the skills, expertise, services and resources at your disposal which you believe demonstrates your ability to perform the services, including staffing details and structure. ii. Experience and capability. A summary of three relevant projects that demonstrate your approach, innovation and expertise. iii. Expected output. A detailed method statement setting out your approach to delivering the services to meet the objectives and requirements of the Specification. iv. Proposed work stages. A proposed delivery programme showing milestones (including the delivery milestones detailed in the Specification) and the resources that will be put in place to complete all the requirements on schedule. (80%)
Social Value Submission — Bidders are required to complete the Social Value Submission Sheet and provide the following as part of their submission: • Quantitative Social Value commitments (worth 4% of the evaluation) • Qualitative method statements (worth 6% of the evaluation) (10%)
Pricing Schedule — Pricing Schedule containing a fully itemised breakdown of the tender sum, hourly and fixed rate fees per level of staff member including their anticipated hours to be spent on the contract and any additional costs or fees on an Excel spreadsheet (not pdf). (10%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Research and development services and related consultancy services, Education and training servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 73. The category anchor is Research and development services and related consultancy services (73000000); 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 732,8873 median · 27.3 average (1,022 of 2,887 with a bid count)2.5 average (1,156 of 2,887 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,2482 median · 45.7 average (435 of 1,248 with a bid count)3 average (502 of 1,248 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3095 median · 5.4 average (5 of 309 with a bid count)1 average (5 of 309 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 regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
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

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-058d3b
Latest release ID051034-2025
Latest release timestampFri Aug 22 2025 16:21:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/051034-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-09-22T09:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-09-15T09:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsThe tender and associated documents must be submitted by uploading onto Proactis https://procontract.due-north.com/ and may not be delivered by any other method, including by hand or courier to any Council office, officer or member.
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£125,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
22 Aug 2025tender051034-2025

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 (1 releases)
22 Aug 2025 · 051034-2025 · tender
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