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Skills Development Scotland Co. Limited

Standards and Frameworks - Framework Agreement

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£4.0m
Deadline
Published15 Sept 2022
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
gillian.bennett@sds.co.uk
+44 1412256710

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£4.0mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£4.3m

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.

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The brief

Skills Development Scotland requires to establish a multi supplier framework on behalf of the Devolved Governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to provide development of Standards and Frameworks.

The scope of tendered services covers provision of development and review of: Lot 1: National Occupational Standards(NOS) including cleansing of NOS Lot 2: Welsh Translation for NOS where required Lot 3: Scottish Vocational Qualifications(SVQs) or alternative competency-based qualifications (CBQs) for use in apprenticeship frameworks Lot 4: Apprenticeship Frameworks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The scope of services to be provided under this contract falls within definition of social and other specific services in Schedule 3 to Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the regulations") and therefore procurement process shall in accordance with Regulation 74 of the Regulation be subject to the requirement of section 7 of the Regulations.

By virtue of regulation 76(3) of the regulations, bidders in any of the situations listed in regulation 58 of the Regulation may be excluded.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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Skills Development Scotland requires to establish

Skills Development Scotland requires to establish a multi supplier framework on behalf of the Devolved Governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to provide development of Standards and Frameworks.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ApprenticeshipsPolicies & commitments
Lot 3: Scottish Vocational Qualifications(SVQs) or alternative competency-based qualifications (CBQs) for use in apprenticeship frameworks
Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
Standards and Frameworks - Framework Agreement

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0368d0
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
025947-2022
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