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# Training Services Market Sounding Exercise

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/training-services-market-sounding-exercise-ocds-h6vhtk-02e983). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) through this market testing exercise is looking for supplier(s) who can deliver access to learning and development opportunities to support and collaborate with the in-house team of HR professionals (The People Team). The purpose of this Soft Market Testing Exercise is to gain a better understanding of what solutions are available in the market that could be viable in meeting FSCS’s objective to regularise and improve access arrangements to a range of learning and development interventions and related services, as well as to support FSCS in development of a fit for purpose specification. The Market Sounding Briefing Document provided in the procurement exercise pack outlines the 4 strands to FSCS Learning and Development roadmap and a range of training principles applied across FSCS to ensure and support compliance with essential learning plans, continuing professional development (CPD), essential training required for specific roles.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Financial Services Compensation Scheme](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/financial-services-compensation-scheme-coh-03943048)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £400,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Training services
- **Delivery Location:** UKI4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02e983`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/training-services-market-sounding-exercise-ocds-h6vhtk-02e983#tl-md)

## Description
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) through this market testing exercise is looking for supplier(s) who can deliver access to learning and development opportunities to support and collaborate with the in-house team of HR professionals (The People Team).
The purpose of this Soft Market Testing Exercise is to gain a better understanding of what solutions are available in the market that could be viable in meeting FSCS’s objective to regularise and improve access arrangements to a range of learning and development interventions and related services, as well as to support FSCS in development of a fit for purpose specification.
The Market Sounding Briefing Document provided in the procurement exercise pack outlines the 4 strands to FSCS Learning and Development roadmap and a range of training principles applied across FSCS to ensure and support compliance with essential learning plans, continuing professional development (CPD), essential training required for specific roles.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UKI

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F025109-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-10-07T17:15:03.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T21:01:06.758Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02e983