Education and training services

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Prior information notice of the Department's intention to procure up to 16 apprenticeship end point assessment service contracts for the Army Apprenticeship Programme (AAP) within Tranche 1 of its EPA implementation. The AAP provides apprenticeships to 15 cap badges across the army, each cap badge runs multiple Standards to enable them to offer a high-quality apprenticeship programme for soldiers. The majority of tranche 1 standards will require EPAO contracting and engagement from early to mid-2021 through to 2022 and EPA from mid to late 2021 through to 2022 and beyond, however several standards, such as the royal engineers level 3 military engineering construction technician (ST0414) will require immediate EPAO support. This prior information notice relates to EPA contracts for apprenticeships across the following standards for the cap badges for tranche 1 of the programme: Please see attached documentation.