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Department for Education

Accredited learning programmes across the policy profession

EducationCPV 80300000
Value£16.6m
Deadline13 Jul 2026
Published10 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£16.6mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£17.9m

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

The Civil Service Policy Profession consists of around 38,500 civil servants making it the second largest profession in government.

It has a presence across the regions and nations of the UK.

The work of policy professionals has a profound impact on the lives of people across the country.

Upskilling policy makers will mean they develop better policies that will deliver better outcomes for the public.

The Policy Profession Unit, which is part of the Department for Education but works on behalf of policy professionals across government, has responsibility for overseeing the development of the Policy Profession.

This includes building the skills and capability of individual policy makers at different stages of their careers.

We are seeking to partner with higher education institution(s) to develop and deliver, from September 2027, accredited programmes at postgraduate level that build the…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Upskilling policy makers will mean they develop

Upskilling policy makers will mean they develop better policies that will deliver better outcomes for the public.

02

We are seeking to partner with higher

We are seeking to partner with higher education institution(s) to develop and deliver, from September 2027, accredited programmes at postgraduate level that build the skills and capabilities of UK civil servants in line with the Policy Profession Standards.

03

The Department for Education will hold these

The Department for Education will hold these contracts, however the programmes must be accessible to all civil service departments.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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