Education and training services

Tender description

Liverpool City Region’s indicative Adult Education Budget (AEB) is 52 000 000 GBP per year. The combined authority expects to procure provision including statutory learning entitlements and other learning aims/qualifications on a fully or co-funded basis. AEB will also fund learner, learning support and outcome payments through multiple contracts for services. Key features are: — 100 000 GBP minimum and 1 000 000 GBP maximum contract value per annum, — contract duration from 1.8.2019 to 31.7.2020 with options for annual extensions until 31.7.2022. The services to which this contract notice relates are ‘light touch’ services under Regulations 74-76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR). The LCR has identified use of a restricted procedure but is not following a fully regulated procurement process under Part 2, Chapter 2 of PCR. Details of the process, which will include completion of a selection questionnaire and if successful, organisations will be issued with an invitation to tender. Lot 1: Comprehensive skills support to all residents including: Statutory entitlements (statutory learner fully funded entitlements include English, maths and (from August 2020/21) digital skills, as well as a first Level 2 qualification and Level 3 for those aged 19 to 23 years); and Other learning including: — pre-employment training; vocationally specific learning, — English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), — education and vocational skills training for employers, — education and vocational skills support for employed people, — skills support for unemployed and economically inactive people. Lot 2: Innovative, smaller test and learn pilots for the following: — English for speakers of other languages delivered through innovative methodologies, — preparations for the digital entitlement — pre 2020 pilots, and — English and maths pilots delivered through innovative methodologies.