Top Apprenticeship Employer Rankings 26-27 Preliminary market engagement notice
The procurement contact named on the official notice.
https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html The procurement will take place on the DfE Jaggaer system. Please register an account and search for ITT_3681 where the procurement documents will be stored and your tender response can be submitted.
The submission route named on the official notice.
This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.
Department for Education publishes Business Services work continuously — 331 notices, roughly one every 3 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.
45% of Department for Education’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.
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The DfE is seeking to engage parties who are interested in bidding to deliver Top Apprenticeship Employer Rankings for 2026 and 2027.
Please note that this notice is for early market engagement and exploratory purposes and is not a call for competition.
The Department reserves the right not to enter any formal processes or agreements.
Accordingly, the authority will not be liable for any bid cost, expenditure, work, or effort incurred by a provider in acting based on this notice.
The DfE is keen to maximise opportunities to participate in procurement for Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs).
Consideration will also be given to consortia and collaborative bids from all forms of organisations.
What this notice demands of you
1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.
Top Apprenticeship Employer Rankings 26-27 Preliminary market engagement notice
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- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05843f
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 054716-2025
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