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East Sussex County Council

ESCC - DR - Skills Bootcamps

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£7.1m
Awarded12 Mar 2025
Published30 Jun 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£7.1mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£7.6m

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.

The brief

The delivery of Skills Bootcamps which are flexible short vocational courses designed to improve the skills of the workforce in key sectors.

They are offered to adults aged 19 and over.

There will be 17 lots in total to deliver specific learning provision in the vocational areas listed within the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document (document 2).

There are a total of 17 contracts that may be awarded.

Each contract is initially a 1-year contract subject to extension and subject to funding/performance.

As stipulated in the specification, the Council is seeking one provider per lot.

Providers may bid for more than one lot.

No provider will be contracted to deliver more than a maximum of eight lots.

Please refer to document 12 for information.

Full details of the required Services are set out in the service specifications.

The Council is conducting this procurement within the requirements of the Light Touch Regime of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI2015/102).

The process has a reduced tender period of 21 days (instead of the standard 28 days); and shall run as a single stage open tender.

The Council reserves the right to not observe a standstill period.

If the Council decides to observe a standstill period, the Commissioners will follow a 10-day standstill period which shall commence the day after the Commissioners send out notices confirming their decision to award the Contract.

Following the completion of a 10-day standstill period, the Commissioners will award the Contract.

This procurement is subject to confirmation of DfE Government Funding.

If funding is reduced, suspended, reclaimed or withdrawn by Government, ESCC may choose to withdraw certain lots and/or reduce or modify the size of lots.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

There will be 17 lots in total

There will be 17 lots in total to deliver specific learning provision in the vocational areas listed within the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document (document 2).

02

No provider will be contracted to deliver

No provider will be contracted to deliver more than a maximum of eight lots.

03

The process has a reduced tender period

The process has a reduced tender period of 21 days (instead of the standard 28 days); and shall run as a single stage open tender.

04

If the Council decides to observe

If the Council decides to observe a standstill period, the Commissioners will follow a 10-day standstill period which shall commence the day after the Commissioners send out notices confirming their decision to award the Contract.

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

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