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Birmingham Metropolitan College

Rail Track Maintenance Support Programme

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£630k
Awarded10 Feb 2023
Published23 Mar 2023
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£630ktotal 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

Birmingham Metropolitan College has established a Rail Academy which is built up of two qualifications which come together to provide learners with the necessary skills to be able to carry out track maintenance within the rail sector: Rail Engineering Track Maintenance - this qualification involves the skills and knowledge needed for working in railway engineering track maintenance.

NVQs are based on national occupational standards, which the learner must meet to be competent in a particular task.

The achievement of NVQs will develop their skills and potential within the railway engineering track maintenance field.

Rail Engineering Underpinning Knowledge - this qualifications purpose is to provide candidates with sufficient knowledge, understanding and practical skills to introduce them to the industry and prepare them to undertake the NVQ.

Some of the top areas covered are Railway Civil Engineering, Track Engineering, Track Engineering Maintenance, Railway infrastructure - Overhead Line Equipment Construction, Railway infrastructure - Function and characteristics of railway signalling systems and Railway signalling systems testing and maintenance.

To support its provision.

BMet is looking for an organisation to support its delivery by providing and organising for its learners: Drug and Alcohol Testing and General Medicals Employment outcome Sponsorship E- Learning in advance of Personal Track Safety assessments Personal Track Safety assessments Interested organisations are invited to submit a response to its request for quotations referred to below using the Quotation form referred to below and submitting a completed PQQ and Due Diligence Form also provided below.

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What the notice asks for

01

Birmingham Metropolitan College has established a Rail

Birmingham Metropolitan College has established a Rail Academy which is built up of two qualifications which come together to provide learners with the necessary skills to be able to carry out track maintenance within the rail sector:.

02

NVQs are based on national occupational standards

NVQs are based on national occupational standards, which the learner must meet to be competent in a particular task.

03

This qualifications purpose is to provide candidates

this qualifications purpose is to provide candidates with sufficient knowledge, understanding and practical skills to introduce them to the industry and prepare them to undertake the NVQ.

04

To support its provision

To support its provision.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
BMet 2022/23/3
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