Education and training services

Tender description

The purpose of this PIN is to initiate market engagement and it is not being used as a call for competition. This PIN is intended to: 1) Inform the market of a potential future procurement process for the Wave 1 T Levels, being commissioned jointly by Department for Education and the Institute for Apprenticeships (and therefore enable the market /suppliers to begin to plan for this); and 2) Advise as to two forthcoming market engagement events which will be held on 10:00 am — 5:00 pm on 11.6.2018 and 14.6.2018, the morning session will be held at ETC venues, One Drummond Gate,Victoria, London SW1V 2QQ. The afternoon session will be held in Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street SW1P 3BT. T Levels is a new system of Technical Education that would introduce a high quality technical option alongside an academic option for students aged 16 to 19. This is the recommendation by the Independent Panel on Technical Education – the Sainsbury report. The Sainsbury Report also recommended that a single body or consortium should deliver each qualification under an “exclusive licence” that would be awarded for a fixed time period following open competition. The purpose of the proposed procurement will be to select and appoint an Awarding Organisation (AO) (or AOs) to be responsible for developing and delivering each of the Wave 1 T Levels, under an exclusive licensing approach. The expected scope of the role of the AO(s) is that it/they would be responsible for: — Designing the content of the qualification, — Upskilling providers, — Provision of learning and teaching materials, — Updating content, and — Qualification assessment services. Further information on the proposed procurement is provided in the Information Memorandum accessible at https://education.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml It is envisaged that any resulting contract (or contracts) would be a public services concession contract (or contracts) and that accordingly the procurement will be governed by the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, to the extent that the same apply to those services to which such contract (or contracts) would relate. T Levels is a new system of Technical Education that would introduce a high quality technical option alongside an academic option for students aged 16 to 19. This is the recommendation by the Independent Panel on Technical Education – the Sainsbury report. The Sainsbury Report also recommended that a single body or consortium should deliver each qualification under an “exclusive licence” that would be awarded for a fixed time period following open competition. The purpose of the proposed procurement will be to select and appoint an Awarding Organisation (AO) (or AOs) to be responsible for developing and delivering each of the Wave 1 T Levels, under an exclusive licensing approach. The expected scope of the role of the AO(s) is that it/they would be responsible for: — Designing the content of the qualification, — Upskilling providers, — Provision of learning and teaching materials, — Updating content, and — Qualification assessment services. Further information on the proposed procurement is provided in the Information Memorandum accessible at https://education.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml It is envisaged that any resulting contract (or contracts) would be a public services concession contract (or contracts) and that accordingly the procurement will be governed by the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, to the extent that the same apply to those services to which such contract (or contracts) would relate. T Levels is a new system of Technical Education that would introduce a high quality technical option alongside an academic option for students aged 16 to 19. This is the recommendation by the Independent Panel on Technical Education – the Sainsbury report. The Sainsbury Report also recommended that a single body or consortium should deliver each qualification under an “exclusive licence” that would be awarded for a fixed time period following open competition. The purpose of the proposed procurement will be to select and appoint an Awarding Organisation (AO) (or AOs) to be responsible for developing and delivering each of the Wave 1 T Levels, under an exclusive licensing approach. The expected scope of the role of the AO(s) is that it/they would be responsible for: — Designing the content of the qualification, — Upskilling providers, — Provision of learning and teaching materials, — Updating content, and — Qualification assessment services. Further information on the proposed procurement is provided in the Information Memorandum accessible at https://education.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml It is envisaged that any resulting contract (or contracts) would be a public services concession contract (or contracts) and that accordingly the procurement will be governed by the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, to the extent that the same apply to those services to which such contract (or contracts) would relate.