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Department for Education

King’s College London Postgraduate Learning Offer

Business ServicesCPV 80300000
Value£2.8m
Awarded
Published19 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
King’s College London
Awarded value£2.8m

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

Who to contact
PolicyAssurance.COMMERCIALQUERIES@education.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£2.8mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£3.0m

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

This Direct Award is to King's College London for the delivery of the King's College London Postgraduate Learning Offer (KCL PGL2) from January 2026.

This will include enrolment on standalone modules up until July 2027, with the final enrolment point for the postgraduate certificate/ diploma in March 2027.

Designed with the UK Civil Service, the KCL PGL2 is designed for mid-career civil servants, to support their development at level 2 of the policy profession standards.

This offer is designed to be flexible and modular.

This direct award aims to provide learners continuity of service and provision, ensuring that there is no break in our ability to deliver mid-career accredited learning whilst we undertake a full procurement.

If this Direct Award were not to proceed, we would have a gap in learning provision at this level, as KCL are the only supplier available to provide flexible, modular learning explicitly aligned to the policy profession standards.

Proceeding via a direct award is the favourable option in comparison to other available contracting vehicles , as it represents a significant saving in comparison to the current per student cost The Direct Award will also allow us to undertake a full procurement exercise for delivery of Accredited Learning from September 2027, allowing us to test the requirements of the policy profession against the wider higher education market

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Designed with the UK Civil Service,

Designed with the UK Civil Service, the KCL PGL2 is designed for mid-career civil servants, to support their development at level 2 of the policy profession standards.

02

This direct award aims to provide learners

This direct award aims to provide learners continuity of service and provision, ensuring that there is no break in our ability to deliver mid-career accredited learning whilst we undertake a full procurement.

03

If this Direct Award were not

If this Direct Award were not to proceed, we would have a gap in learning provision at this level, as KCL are the only supplier available to provide flexible, modular learning explicitly aligned to the policy profession standards.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
award · Awarded
Source
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Buyer ref
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