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Tailored Learning Open Framework 2025

Buyer: Nottinghamshire County Council →

BuyerNottinghamshire County Council
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published3 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Nottinghamshire County Council (the Council) receives an annual grant from the Department for Education (DfE) via East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) to fund Community and Family Learning for adults aged 19+ in Nottinghamshire. The Council uses this Grant to ensure that local people have access to a range of flexible learning opportunities that contribute to their personal, social, educational and economic development. The vast majority of provision is delivered directly to the public via the Council's Contract with Inspire Learning. In addition to the contract to deliver direct services, the Council has appointed Inspire Learning to act as its agent and coordinate and manage supplementary contractors that deliver specialist provision that they do not deliver themselves. Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking organisations who: • are able to provide high quality Tailored Learning to adults over the age of 19 in Nottinghamshire. This provision should principally be courses that Inspire Learning is unable to deliver themselves; • if subject to Ofsted inspections, their most recent inspection was graded Good (grade 2) or better; • are not currently subject to a DfE notice to improve linked to their financial performance. • will not be in receipt of Adult Skills Fund funding for the 2025-26 academic year; and • directly deliver services. Subcontracting is not allowed. Providers are invited to tender for contracts for the following Community Learning provision: • General Adult Learning • Family Learning • Discrete provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD)

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Lot 2

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Lot 3

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Comparable-procurement analytics

No usable CPV category has been published, so a comparable market set cannot yet be built.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
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

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

Lot 1. General Adult Learning

Statusactive
Value£37,842

Lot 2: Family Learning

Statusactive
Value£62,622

Lot 3: Discrete provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD)

Statusactive
Value£154,533

Documents & submission route

  • Not published

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-051ac5
Latest release ID079278-2025
Latest release timestampWed Dec 03 2025 11:39:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryNot published
Above thresholdNot published
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 source3
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release3
Contracts in latest release3
Parties in latest release6

Notice history

DateEventReference
3 Dec 2025award, contract079278-2025
3 Oct 2025award, contract062147-2025
15 Aug 2025tender049055-2025
21 May 2025planning023904-2025

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 (4 releases)
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3 Oct 2025 · 062147-2025 · award, contract
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        "vcse": true,
        "scale": "sme",
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15 Aug 2025 · 049055-2025 · tender
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  "date": "2025-08-15T11:16:28+01:00",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-051ac5",
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    "name": "Nottinghamshire County Council"
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        "value": {
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        "status": "active",
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        "description": "Courses under this theme will be under either Employability (ACL1, ACL2, ACL 3 or ACL 4) or Health and Wellbeing (ACL1, ACL6 or ACL7).  \nEmployability courses will build the confidence and basic skills for people not supported by Department of Work and Pensions programmes.  Courses should not duplicate existing provision, for example basic CV writing and job searching. A need has been identified for short employability or pre-employability courses for some job seekers and under-employed people with very low-level literacy or numeracy skills.   Learners with specific protected characteristics (as defined in the Equality Act 2010) may require tailored provision under this theme.  Courses under this theme must have employability or pre-employability learning outcomes reflected in course planning and delivery.\nHealth and Wellbeing Courses will improve physical, emotional and mental health through group learning. Providers are encouraged to deliver courses that engage people who are disadvantaged and least likely to participate in learning, including people on low incomes, people with caring responsibilities, people experiencing isolation and loneliness and people with mental health issues.  Learners with specific protected characteristics may require tailored provision under this theme.  Courses under this theme must have health and wellbeing learning outcomes reflected in course planning and delivery.",
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              "type": "economic",
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    "title": "Tailored Learning Open Framework 2025",
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        "id": "conflictOfInterest",
        "description": "Not published",
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        "id": "L-1",
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        "id": "049055-2025",
        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/049055-2025",
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        "description": "The scores for all award criteria will be totalled to give an overall score for each lot. The Council intends to select the suppliers that meet or exceed the minimum thresholds, for both Quality and the overall score as its successful bidders and place them on the framework.   \nThose successful framework providers will be ranked by their scores.   Provider ranking will be used as part of the award criteria for allocation of Contracts.\nThere is no guarantee that providers that successfully make it on to the framework will be allocated any or all of the courses they are bidding for.  We expect that in some circumstances there may be more providers than we can fund given the limited resources available.   \nThe Council will decide on how the provision for each Lot will be allocated to successful Providers by considering the following criteria to co-ordinate a balanced curriculum and avoid unnecessary duplication:\n•\tQuality  80%\n•\tPrice/ Value for money 20%\nThe following factors are also taken into account:\n•\tLearner needs\n•\tCourse content\n•\tCourse location \n•\tMaximum Contract value\nThe highest ranked provider in each Lot will be the provider that has the highest combined score of Quality & Price (Weight 80% Quality and 20% Price).  Commissioners will work down the ranked list of providers for each Lot until the budget has been exhausted. \nThe Council reserves the right to use its discretion to pass over a supplier in a lot if there is a duplication of Course content, location or learner needs.   Where a supplier is bidding for multiple Lots, the Council reserves the right to allocate Lots in any order when calculating the maximum contract value.",
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      "lightTouch"
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    "submissionTerms": {
      "languages": [
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        "postalCode": "NG2 7QP",
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}
21 May 2025 · 023904-2025 · planning
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