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Coleg Gwent

271 - Coleg Gwent skills partnership contract and quality framework - expressions of interest

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£22.0m
Deadline27 Jul 2026
Published26 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 26 Jun 20262 days leftCloses 27 Jul 2026
Who to contact
Gareth Tidmarsh
gareth.tidmarsh@coleggwent.ac.uk
01495 333547

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

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Contract value in context
£22.0mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£23.8m

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

We would like to invite expressions of interest to form a framework of skills partnership providers.

Please note there is no guarantee of work, due to the funding .

We want to have 2 lots .

Lot 1 is for NVQ's.

Lot 2 is for Personal learning or upskill or reskill employed learners.

The framework will be closed for 1 year, then re opened so suppliers can apply again, then closed again for another year.

The bravo ITT number is ITT_125144

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

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%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • 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-06b253
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
060103-2026
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