Education and training services

Tender description

The Business Skills College which forms part of the Technology and Business Faculty of the Defence Academy (DA) provides business skills training and education across five key functions: commercial logistics, safety, quality, P3M and finance. The BSC provides 150 courses ranging from e-learning, awareness training through to MSc level education. A prime contractor is required to provide a cadre of ‘Associate Trainers,’ who will enhance the current BSC functional training portfolio to provide awareness to expert level training as and when demand for training dictates and/or on the basis of an annual rolling requirement. The MOD Commercial Professionalism Programme (CPP) has selected the Defence Academy as its Delivery Partner for the Training and Education (T&E) work stream. However due to the significant level of the delivery requirement there is a need to enhance the in-house team, bringing in associate trainers with specialist knowledge commensurate with the CPP programme at practitioner and expert level. Alongside the commercial requirement the BSC also requires the prime contractor to provide a cadre of associate trainers to assist with the design and delivery of courses in the P3M and finance functions. These associates will be supplied on a call-off basis to deliver on a demand-driven portfolio of courses. The associates will design, deliver and develop courses alongside the BSC training staff. The authority requires associate trainers to design, develop and deliver courses alongside BSC staff. The courses will range from e-learning, awareness through to expert level training (in both classroom or virtual based delivery environment). Associate trainers will be required to support technology enhanced learning where applicable to the T&E Portfolio. The associate training provider will deliver training on a 50/50 basis between physical and virtual training delivery. The associates will be supplied on a call-off basis (with a minimum notice of 4 weeks) to deliver on a demand-driven portfolio of courses. The requirement for additional associate trainers at each level will be determined by demand moving forward except for the CPP for which the requirement for the commercial function enhancement, is laid out below. At Annex A. The associate training provider will describe in detail how they intend to manage the associate database and ensure the right people are found to perform the required tasks and what process will be implemented to allow the authority to confirm associate trainers with the correct skills have been allocated to the task.