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Worcestershire County Council

DPS for Skills and Investment Grant Funding

EducationCPV 80300000
Value£25.0m
Deadline30 Sept 2028
Published2 Oct 2023
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 2 Oct 2023797 days leftCloses 30 Sept 2028
Who to contact
Sarah Thick
sthick@worcestershire.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£25.0mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£27.0m

This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Worcestershire County Council is putting in place a DPS for Skills and Investment Grant Funding.

The Council's Investment in Skills Team aims to help people into employment and to work towards improving skills in the county.

The scope of the projects delivered by the Investment in Skills Team can vary in context, value and duration but, collectively, and over time they support the goals of the Team which is funded by various grant providers such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Department for Education, etc .

The Team commissions the knowledge and skills of externally qualified, licensed and experienced providers to work on a variety of training projects as and when required to meet requirements.

There are 5 Categories: Category 1 Employability and Skills, Category 2 Education, Category 3 Digital, Category 4 Consultancy and Category 5 Health and Wellbeing.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The scope of the projects delivered by

The scope of the projects delivered by the Investment in Skills Team can vary in context, value and duration but, collectively, and over time they support the goals of the Team which is funded by various grant providers such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Department for Education, etc .

02

The Team commissions the knowledge and skills

The Team commissions the knowledge and skills of externally qualified, licensed and experienced providers to work on a variety of training projects as and when required to meet requirements.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-040703
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
028925-2023
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