Education and training services

Tender description

Education and training services. Training services. Training programme services. Technical training services. Personal development training services. Training services in defence and security materials. The Training Service will be delivered at a number of MOD establishments within the UK, primarily in Devon and Hampshire. The Training Service comprises both the delivery of education and training to personnel (to enable them to meet operational needs) and training design. The Training Service will primarily comprise Naval technical and tactical training, education and training support (e.g. training planning, equipment support, routine maintenance and training design). This service is partially a replacement of the current training provision under the Fleet Outsourced Activities Project (Training) (FOAP(T)). Contract no: FLEET/SP2/0006. It is intended that additional training services, beyond those delivered by FOAP(T), will be added progressively throughout the contract duration: A small number of services may also be removed. Further information will be included in the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) Training design falls into 4 primary categories: Routine Training Document Maintenance; design changes due to new equipment(s); design changes as a result of restructuring, policy changes and operational requirements; and Training Modernisation. Training Modernisation is the progressive modernisation of training services to provide more efficient resource utilisation, shorter training pipelines, improved morale and retention of RN personnel, and flexibility to enable tailoring to different student levels of competence and prior learning. To deliver the range, depth and capacity of training design expertise, elements of training design, other than routine training document maintenance are expected to be sub-contracted. Further information will be included in the ITN. POTS envisages a staged approach, initially focused on a seamless transition from existing arrangements leading into continuous delivery of the Training Service which will then be improved by Training Modernisation. The Crown owns the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the existing training documents and the contractor will be given access to these during transition and throughout the contract period for maintenance and service delivery purposes. The contractor will be required to manage military assets supplied to the contractor as Government Furnished Assets. An element of International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) will apply to a small proportion of this equipment and the Contractor will be expected to manage this. Further information will be included in the ITN.