Education and training services

Tender description

The Department for Transport (DfT) is seeking experienced UK DfT certified aviation security trainers and their respective organisations to design, plan, deliver and evaluate a range of aviation security capacity development projects overseas or in the UK. Bidders will have the opportunity to attend a presentation on 7.7.2016 from 11:30 to 14:30 (Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Rd, London SW1P 4DR) in order to further understand the requirement and the Procurement process. Please email DfTProcurementOpsISEG@dft.gsi.gov.uk with your company name, list of attendees and position if you would like to attend. The aim of this procurement is to set up a Framework Agreement with up to 15 suppliers to provide aviation security training-related provisions internationally and in the UK. The Framework will run for an initial 2 year period, with the option to further extend the Framework for up to 24 months. It is envisaged that the department will be delivering around 75 projects including training courses of differing types in the 1st year of the Framework. Suppliers will be required to deliver courses in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the UK and elsewhere as the Department requires. Training may consist of aviation security courses to improve operational delivery or tackle specific vulnerabilities. The Department may also require the delivery of other types of support, such as operational support, provision of training materials or review of existing security training. These are intended to improve aviation security at a particular airport or group of airports, or within a Host State's aviation security regulatory framework. Training will generally be delivered in the host state's airport(s) and aviation training facilities. There could be occasions when training may be required to be delivered in countries neighbouring those with higher threat for convenience or in the UK. It should be noted that some of these facilities may be challenging and less developed in comparison to the UK. In addition, for some locations there may be a requirement that trainers have recently undertaken or are willing to undertake relevant training for operating in a fragile or hostile environment, e.g. Security Awareness in Fragile Environments course before being able to deploy.