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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
PROVISION OF UK BASED LANGUAGE TRAINING
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £28,800,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 17 Sep 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
FCDO intends to procure a supplier(s) for professional language services training in up to 87 languages and management of the FCDO Language Centre. FCDO are also exploring the feasibility for Centres of Excellence to deliver a range of language training including but not limited to French, Arabic and Spanish.
The new language training model has been designed to be scalable to meet the future needs of FCDO and HMG in terms of both volumes and languages available.
FCDO is conducting a preliminary market engagement (PME) to inform the future procurement strategy, understand market capability, and ensure the designed competitive procedure is fair, accessible, and effective.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 80580000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 17 Apr 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 17 April 2026.
Release 035132-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 10 Jun 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 10 June 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release 054789-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 17 Sep 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 17 September 2026. Stated change: The estimated publishing date of the tender was indicated as 28th August 2026. However, due to the Business Case being delayed the indicative date to issue tender documents and planned procurement notice will now be now be January 2027. If there are any other comms, I will advise on this notice.
Release 088094-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-068530
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · planned
- Last verified
- Thu 24 Sep 2026, 08:15 BST
- Read at
- Wed 21 Oct 2026, 11:07 BST
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