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WAES Referral Agent for Learning Programmes

Buyer: capitalEsourcing →

BuyercapitalEsourcing
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published4 Feb 2025

What is being bought

The scope of this procurement is to identify a provider who can market Westminster Adult Education Services Level 2 and Level 3 Distance Learning courses across the GLA region and Non-Devolved EFSA regions. The agent will be required to conduct initial assessment and obtain credible evidence on potential learners and support eligible learners with enrolment via WAES website.

Delivery location

UKI

Categories

E-learning services 80420000

Lot details

Lot 1

The proposed contract arrangement is for a single referral agent who has the appropriate expertise to market to, recruit, conduct initial assessments, induct, and refer learners undertaking level 2 and 3 qualifications in Childcare, Health and Social Care, Business and Digital. Targets would be set out annually based of the GLA an ESFA funding allocations for the academic year. We also sought proposals from agents that can also support the Free Courses for Jobs Curriculum.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Technical — 80%
Price — 20%
price — 80/20

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is E-learning services (80420000); 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 (3,112 of 6,656 with a bid count)3.2 average (3,414 of 6,656 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer414 median · 14 average (1 of 4 with a bid count)2 average (1 of 4 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKI3103.5 median · 685.1 average (86 of 310 with a bid count)4.8 average (99 of 310 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 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

WAES ​​Referral Agent for Learning Programmes​

Statusactive

Contracts

WAES ​​Referral Agent for Learning Programmes​

Statusactive
Value£377,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-047b25
Latest release ID003695-2025
Latest release timestampTue Feb 04 2025 15:49:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
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 release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
4 Feb 2025award, contract003695-2025
5 Jul 2024tender020620-2024

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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5 Jul 2024 · 020620-2024 · tender
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