Adult and other education services

Tender description

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) Adult Learning and Employment Service (ALES) Commissioning 2019/20 seeks to appoint delivery partners to provide an approved programme of adult learning provision that will be successfully delivered to a specified number of learners in the academic year 1.8.2019 to 31.7.2020. All organisations wishing to apply for funding through the adult learning and employment service must complete the procurement questions in the application invitation on capitalEsourcing in order to be considered. Completion of the application is not a guarantee of funding being awarded. A number of contracts of between 10 000 GBP and 25 000 GBP for up to 125 individual learners may be awarded. Lot 1 seeks partners who may not have experience of delivering learning to the funding requirements of the GLA or the education and skills funding agency. This lot is being offered to encourage partners who have not been funded by us previously, who have not delivered substantial courses for adults or who do not have capacity to deliver larger numbers of learners. Lot 2 seeks partners who have previously been funded by the Adult Learning and Employment Service, or who have had a direct contract with the Education and Skills Funding Agency or other similar funding for delivery of adult learning. Partners in this lot are expected to have experience of delivering high quality adult learning, to the funding rules and Ofsted standards. Note: Any organisation bidding for funding equal to or exceeding 100 000 GBP must also have completed the Education and Skills Funding Agency Due Diligence process and have been accepted onto the Register of Training Providers. In line with funding rules, this also applies to organisations who hold direct contracts with the GLA or ESFA, and/or have additional subcontracts with other Primes which add up to 100 000 GBP or more. No award exceeding 100 000 GBP will be made to an organisation unable to provide evidence of their acceptance onto the Register.