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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Learning and Development for Adult Care Workforce: Flexible Purchasing Solution (FPS)

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£2.0m
Deadline19 Mar 2033
Published5 Mar 2024
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 5 Mar 20242431 days leftCloses 19 Mar 2033
Who to contact
Yvonne Dutton
yvonne.dutton@rotherham.gov.uk
+44 1709334165

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How to submit
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Contract value in context
£2.0mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

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

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is looking for suitably qualified training and development applicants to be appointed onto a flexible purchasing system (FPS) for the provision of a range of training solutions for the adult social care and public health workforce.

Training solutions provided to the authority must be based on person-centred values and principles and support high quality services and improved outcomes for customers through the provision of a competent, capable, and skilled workforce.

Adult social care comprises personal care and practical support for older adults who cannot manage the tasks of everyday life and for working-age adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, or physical or mental illnesses.

It also includes support for their carers and personal assistants.

Public Health centres around protecting and improving the health of the population and the local community, through various means at all life stages to improve health outcomes for Rotherham residents.

The audience may include wider public health workforce, businesses/ employers and/or residents themselves.

The Learning and development FPS will provide the Authority with the opportunity to procure a range of services within the scope of learning and development.

And will be split into 13 different lots, which are listed within this notice.

The rules of the FPS permit additional lots to be added to the FPS, subject to remaining within the same scope.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Training solutions provided to the authority must

Training solutions provided to the authority must be based on person-centred values and principles and support high quality services and improved outcomes for customers through the provision of a competent, capable, and skilled workforce.

02

Adult social care comprises personal care

Adult social care comprises personal care and practical support for older adults who cannot manage the tasks of everyday life and for working-age adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, or physical or mental illnesses.

03

It also includes support for their carers

It also includes support for their carers and personal assistants.

04

The Learning and development FPS will provide

The Learning and development FPS will provide the Authority with the opportunity to procure a range of services within the scope of learning and development.

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

What it takes to bid this

2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£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

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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007003-2024
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