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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Somerset County Council

For the Design and Delivery of a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work Programme (Step Up to Social Work)

EducationCPV 80300000
Value£609,060
Awarded
Published29 Jul 2021
RegionNationwide

£609,060 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
The University of the West of England, Bristol

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

Who to contact
Mr Iain Copeland
ICopeland@somerset.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£609ktotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

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

'Step Up to Social Work' is a DfE funded initiative with 6 previous national cohorts of students having been taken through the programme at Masters level.

Cohort 7, due to commence in January 2022 will be the fourth cohort to be made available in the South West region, delivering at Post Graduate Diploma level.

However, we anticipate that successful Higher Education Institution(s) (HEI(s)) will offer a self-funding pathway through to a full MA, should students wish to progress.

This Contract is being procured on behalf of the following organisations. • Somerset County Council (lead authority) • South Gloucestershire Council • Bath and North East Somerset Council • Swindon Borough Council • North Somerset Council • Bristol City Council • Devon County Council • Plymouth City Council • Torbay Council • Cornwall Council

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However, we anticipate that successful Higher Education

However, we anticipate that successful Higher Education Institution(s) (HEI(s)) will offer a self-funding pathway through to a full MA, should students wish to progress.

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OCID
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Stage
award · Awarded
Source
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Buyer ref
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