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Northampton College

Northampton College - AEB Subcontracting

EducationCPV 80400000
Value£700k
Deadline26 Jan 2024
Published9 Jan 2024
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 9 Jan 2024ClosedCloses 26 Jan 2024
Who to contact
tenders@northamptoncollege.ac.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

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Contract value in context
£700ktotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

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The brief

1.3 Northampton College is inviting providers to tender to deliver full qualifications at a variety of levels.

Partnership tenders should complement our subcontracting policy, with the aim of adding strategic value to existing college provision and enhancing the quality, range and geographical coverage of the College's Adult Education Budget provision.

The College's priority for sub-contracting is to enhance opportunities and access for learners through maintaining distance learning provision for adult students at scale, thus enabling learners who may not otherwise be able to access college or funded provision to do so.

Within our subcontracting portfolio, the curriculum priority will continue to be Health and Care, where many learners wish to enhance their portfolio of skills flexibly through distance learning.

In addition, the College will continue to supplement our on-site Digital curriculum offer and is open to the potential to develop an online offer designed to train students in green technologies.

All the provision must be delivered in the 2023/24 funding year; there is currently no scope to carry forward funding.

All the learning aims and learners must be eligible for Education Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA) Adult Education Budget (AEB) funding in 2023/24.

Providers wishing to apply for this opportunity must have an active UKPRN and must have a track record of successful sub-contract delivery of qualifications.

The training must be delivered in full by the contracted training provider, i.e. only one level of sub-contracting is permitted and no second level subcontracting is permitted.

The Subcontractor, if awarded the contract, will be responsible for the recruitment of all learners, the delivery of training, the premises and resources required to deliver the training, awarding body accreditation and associated fees.

The quality of provision and subcontractor financial health will be paramount as the College will retain responsibility to ESFA and OFSTED for programme quality.

Financial health and inspection outcomes will form important parts of the assessment process.

The estimated contract value reflects the funding value of learning to be delivered and will be subject to a management fee which will not usually exceed 20%.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Partnership tenders should complement our subcontracting policy

Partnership tenders should complement our subcontracting policy, with the aim of adding strategic value to existing college provision and enhancing the quality, range and geographical coverage of the College's Adult Education Budget provision.

02

The College's priority for sub-contracting is

The College's priority for sub-contracting is to enhance opportunities and access for learners through maintaining distance learning provision for adult students at scale, thus enabling learners who may not otherwise be able to access college or funded provision to do so.

03

All the provision must be delivered in

All the provision must be delivered in the 2023/24 funding year; there is currently no scope to carry forward funding.

04

All the learning aims and learners must

All the learning aims and learners must be eligible for Education Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA) Adult Education Budget (AEB) funding in 2023/24.

05

Providers wishing to apply for this opportunity

Providers wishing to apply for this opportunity must have an active UKPRN and must have a track record of successful sub-contract delivery of qualifications.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

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The quality of provision and subcontractor financial health will be paramount as the College will retain responsibility to ESFA and OFSTED for programme quality.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-042bc6
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
000695-2024
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