Building Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products in Local Authority Regulatory Services

Tender description

The Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS) was established by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Strategy in 2018 and is the national regulator for product safety, legal metrology and construction products. Our purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence Local Authority Regulatory Services (LARS1) also have statutory obligations for the delivery of regulation with regard to product safety, legal metrology and construction products. As national regulator for Product Safety and Legal Metrology, OPSS provides national capacity and supports local authority enforcement and coordination of national and local regulation. As the national regulator for Construction Products, it is building the national regulator function and establishing local authority capability. The requirement is for Development and delivery of a specialist annual Learning & Development (L & D) programme in accordance with a detailed specification including, sourcing trainers, development of specialist technical course resources, all course administration including booking venues and delegate management. Lot 1: The contract requires the Supplier to deliver the following outputs: (i) Each year develop and deliver specialist, technical and practical products, e-learning packages, tools and activities. To be set out in a programme at the beginning of each year with clear learning objectives, dates & times, delivery method, numbers and evaluation approach. (ii) Conduct ongoing evaluation of the learning and development of LARS within each year and throughout the lifetime of the contract as specified below. (iii) At the end of each financial year submit a summary report of the evaluation to be agreed with OPSS, including but not limited to: • details of activities • number of training days, • delegate satisfaction, • evidence that learning objectives have been met; • delegate and geographical take up • Diversity and inclusion (iv) Conduct and submit an annual assessment of learning and development needs ahead of each year’s delivery programme. This includes an assessment in to be conducted in the final year on the contract for (see Table 1 above). (v) Provide metrics on request to support OPSS reporting and evaluation of the success of the programme. (vi) Submit a quarterly performance report, outlining what has been delivered, with metrics which demonstrate key milestones and learning objectives being met and which support the overarching aims in paragraph 1.