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Department For Education

Stimulating the SME Apprenticeship and T Level Market Procurement Opportunity

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£7.5m
Deadline
Published13 Jul 2021
RegionLondon
Contract value in context
£7.5mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£8.1m

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

This notice has been updated to provide details of the upcoming market engagement event.

The Department for Education, acting through the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), are seeking to procure outcome driven plans from intermediaries/partners and partnerships to build on the existing levels of awareness and business benefits amongst Employers and to stimulate and encourage new or renewed participation in Apprenticeships and T Level Industry placements within the Small and Medium Sized Employer (SME) landscape.

This focus on SMEs and the new starts created will increase the economic value of skills being supplied by the post 16 system and these improved skills will lead to increased productivity, social mobility and will support economic recovery.

A market engagement event will be conducted via Microsoft Teams on the 15th July 2021 to access the event please follow the eventbrite link provided within this notice where a limited number of tickets are currently available: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stimulating-the-sme-apprenticeship-and-t-level-market-procurement-tickets-162430482947 The intention is to publish the tender opportunity in July 2021 and the procurement will be run via the DfE eTendering Portal URL: https://education.app.jaggaer.com therefore please ensure that your organisation has an account registered on the Jaggaer portal to access the opportunity.

Please note that all information in this notice is indicative and subject to change.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

This focus on SMEs and the new

This focus on SMEs and the new starts created will increase the economic value of skills being supplied by the post 16 system and these improved skills will lead to increased productivity, social mobility and will support economic recovery.

02

The intention is to publish the tender

The intention is to publish the tender opportunity in July 2021 and the procurement will be run via the DfE eTendering Portal URL: https://education.app.jaggaer.com therefore please ensure that your organisation has an account registered on the Jaggaer portal to access the opportunity.

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