DPS for Skills and Investment Grant Funding
The submission route named on the official notice.
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.
Worcestershire County Council has published 900 notices across all categories, and 31% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.
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Worcestershire County Council is putting in place a DPS for Skills and Investment Grant Funding.
The Council's Investment in Skills Team aims to help people into employment and to work towards improving skills in the county.
The scope of the projects delivered by the Investment in Skills Team can vary in context, value and duration but, collectively, and over time they support the goals of the Team which is funded by various grant providers such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Department for Education, etc .
The Team commissions the knowledge and skills of externally qualified, licensed and experienced providers to work on a variety of training projects as and when required to meet requirements.
There are 5 Categories: Category 1 Employability and Skills, Category 2 Education, Category 3 Digital, Category 4 Consultancy and Category 5 Health and Wellbeing.
What the notice asks for
The scope of the projects delivered by
The scope of the projects delivered by the Investment in Skills Team can vary in context, value and duration but, collectively, and over time they support the goals of the Team which is funded by various grant providers such as the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Department for Education, etc .
The Team commissions the knowledge and skills
The Team commissions the knowledge and skills of externally qualified, licensed and experienced providers to work on a variety of training projects as and when required to meet requirements.
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.
What it takes to bid this
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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- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-040703
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 028925-2023
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