Education and training services

Tender description

Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking organisations who: • are able to provide high quality community learning to adults over the age of 19 in Nottinghamshire. This provision should primarily be courses that Inspire Learning is unable to deliver themselves; • if subject to Ofsted inspections, their most recent inspection was graded good (grade 2) or better; and • are not currently subject to an ESFA notice to improve linked to their financial performance; • directly deliver services. Sub-contracting is not allowed. Providers are invited to tender for contracts for the following community learning provision: 1) Employability; 2) Health and Wellbeing; 3) Family Learning; 4) Discrete provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The budget for awards for all organisations is GBP 500 000. Budget is based on year 1 anticipated funding. Overall funding is agreed on an annual basis and depends on the ESFA grant. Framework providers may submit proposals for courses in one or more lots. If a provider’s pricing proposal is accepted, it may not be accepted in full, however the minimum allocation to a provider will not be less than GBP 10 000 or exceed a GBP 100 000 maximum. Nottinghamshire County Council (the Council) receives an annual grant from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to fund Community and Family Learning for adults aged 19+ in Nottinghamshire. The Council uses this Grant to ensure that local people have access to a range of flexible learning opportunities that contribute to their personal, social, educational and economic development. The vast majority of provision is delivered directly to the public via the Council’s Contract with Inspire Learning. In addition to the contract to deliver direct services, inspire learning are also contracted to coordinate and manage supplementary contractors that deliver specialist provision that they do not deliver themselves. The framework will be periodically re-opened for new providers to apply. This will be on an annual basis to coincide with the annual allocation of contracts. 2) health and wellbeing. 3) family learning. 4) Discrete provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.