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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Westmorland and Furness Council

Provision of Adult Learning Services 2025

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£270k
Awarded28 Mar 2025
Published15 May 2025
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£270ktotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Education & Training band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Cumbria Adult Learning is looking to develop a range of partnerships with subcontracted providers to help us:\r \r • Provide additional capacity in specific curriculum and geographic areas not covered by our own Adult Learning Centres \r • Specialist Provision (e.g. horticulture, STEM - science, logistics, technology, engineering, and mathematics, health and care) \r • Provision to support rural isolation \r • Specific target group - LDD, employability \r \r Cumbria Adult Learning are inviting submissions by training providers to deliver subcontracted provision to meet the gaps outlined in our rationale.

This provision will consist of accredited skills qualifications which must be available for funding on the DfE Find a Learning Aim System - https://findalearningaimbeta.fasst.org.uk/ \r \r This contract is for the provision accredited qualifications in Cumbria.

The contract will be for a period of 1 academic year from 1st August 2025 to 31st July 2026. \r \r Provision will be split into lots outlined in paragraph 1.4 of the Invitation to Tender documents.

Providers can bid for whole geographic lots (Lot 1 or Lot 2), sub lots (A, B, C.....) or multiples of each. \r \r The total contract value will not exceed £270k over the 12-month period. \r \r Further details of the Contract and the Lots are included in the Invitation to Tender documents, available via The Chest.

All clarifications regarding the tender documents must be directed via the messages area of the project dashboard.

Any queries regarding using The Chest - please use the support available from the home page.\r \r

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

• Provide additional capacity in specific curriculum

• Provide additional capacity in specific curriculum and geographic areas not covered by our own Adult Learning Centres \r.

02

• Provision to support rural isolation \r

• Provision to support rural isolation \r.

03

Cumbria Adult Learning are inviting submissions by

Cumbria Adult Learning are inviting submissions by training providers to deliver subcontracted provision to meet the gaps outlined in our rationale.

04

This provision will consist of accredited skills

This provision will consist of accredited skills qualifications which must be available for funding on the DfE Find a Learning Aim System.

05

All clarifications regarding the tender documents must

All clarifications regarding the tender documents must be directed via the messages area of the project dashboard.

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Source & provenance
OCID
07037e3b-f9cd-4c00-9911-a303543e43dc
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
WAFC001-DN763991-69732878
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