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Pre-Market Information - Tailored Learning 2025

  • First published: 27 May 2025
  • Last modified: 27 May 2025
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Summary

OCID:
ocds-h6vhtk-051ac5
Published by:
Nottinghamshire County Council
Authority ID:
AA20184
Publication date:
27 May 2025
Deadline date:
31 May 2025
Notice type:
UK2
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

Nottinghamshire County Council (the Council) receives an annual grant from the Department for Education (DfE) via East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) 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.Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking organisations who:• are able to provide high quality Tailored Learning to adults over the age of 19 in Nottinghamshire. This provision should principally 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;• are not currently subject to a DfE notice to improve linked to their financial performance.• will not be in receipt of Adult Skills Fund funding for the 2025-26 academic year; and• directly deliver services. Subcontracting is not allowed.Providers are invited to tender for contracts for the following Community Learning provision:• General Adult Learning• Family Learning• Discrete provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD)

Full notice text

Scope

Procurement reference

DN775519

Procurement description

Nottinghamshire County Council (the Council) receives an annual grant from the Department for Education (DfE) via East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) 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.

Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking organisations who:

• are able to provide high quality Tailored Learning to adults over the age of 19 in Nottinghamshire. This provision should principally 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;

• are not currently subject to a DfE notice to improve linked to their financial performance.

• will not be in receipt of Adult Skills Fund funding for the 2025-26 academic year; and

• directly deliver services. Subcontracting is not allowed.

Providers are invited to tender for contracts for the following Community Learning provision:

• General Adult Learning

• Family Learning

• Discrete provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD)

Main category

Services

Delivery regions

  • UKF15 - North Nottinghamshire
  • UKF16 - South Nottinghamshire

Contract dates (estimated)

01 August 2025, 00:00AM to 31 July 2027, 23:59PM

Is a framework being established?

Yes

Contracting authority

Nottinghamshire County Council

Identification register:

  • GB-PPON

Address 1: County Hall, Loughborough Road

Town/City: Nottingham

Postcode: NG2 7QP

Country: United Kingdom

Website: https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/

Public Procurement Organisation Number: PBCV-5152-BXBP

NUTS code: UKF16

Contact name: Samantha Gilbert

Email: samantha.gilbert@nottscc.gov.uk

Telephone: +441158546049

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government

Procedure

Is the total value above threshold?

Above threshold

Lots

Divided into 1 lots

Lot number: 1

CPV classifications

  • 80400000 - Adult and other education services

Delivery regions

  • UKF15 - North Nottinghamshire
  • UKF16 - South Nottinghamshire

Sustainability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Contract start date (estimated)

01 August 2025, 00:00AM

Contract end date (estimated)

31 July 2027, 23:59PM

Engagement

Engagement process description

Information published to the open market to detail the requirement, estimated timelines and the requirement to register on FTS Central Digital Platform.

Due date

31 May 2025, 23:59PM

Has the engagement period already ended?

No

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

02 June 2025

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
80400000 Adult and other education services Education and training services

Delivery locations

ID Description
There are no delivery locations for this notice.

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

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Admin contact:
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Technical contact:
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Other contact:
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