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715940476 EPACS UK4 - Tender Notice

EducationCPV 80430000

Value£560,000

Deadline22 Oct 2026

Published21 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

£560,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline

Published 21 Sept 202631 days leftCloses 22 Oct 2026

Who to contact

garry.chubb101@mod.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Submission via the Defence Sourcing Portal www.contracts.mod.uk

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£560ktotal 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.

When this comes round again

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The brief

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) requires Higher Education Institution (HEI) providers to collaborate with the Authority to validate a degree programme which complies with regulations set by the relevant government authorities (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in the UK, The Office for Students in England, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales in Wales, and the Scottish Funding Council in Scotland).

Course validation must be in place to allow qualifications to be awarded to students on completion of their courses.

The role of the DCTT is to train and educate Aeronautical Engineering (AE) to meet the Defence requirement.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

Course validation must be in place

Course validation must be in place to allow qualifications to be awarded to students on completion of their courses.

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

12–20 daysof bid-team effort

£8.2k–£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

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