Skills Bootcamps - Wave 5

Concepts

• huntingdon
• education and training
• specialist skills
• specific skills shortage vacancies
• wave five skills bootcamp provision
• skills bootcamps
• wave five skills bootcamp
• skilled
• wave
• bootcamps

Location

Huntingdon

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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

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Description

The Combined Authority is seeking to award service contract/s to multiple suppliers with a principal purpose of engaging adults aged 19 and above to provide them with the required knowledge and skills that will enable them to enter, and/or gain employment; apprenticeship/traineeship; or progress their employment with their existing employer; or progress their self-employment through the provision of Skills Bootcamps in accordance with the following requirements. Provision of high-quality and in-demand Level 3-5 (or equivalent and unless otherwise stated in the specification) training across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Area. Skills Bootcamps aim to secure benefits for adults by giving them access to in-demand skills training and a guaranteed interview for a more sustainable, higher-skilled job and higher wages over time. The benefits for employers include helping them fill specific skills shortage vacancies, enabling them to become more productive, more quickly. The overall aims of the Skills Bootcamps are: o to deliver flexible training programmes lasting up to 16 weeks, based on local employer / sector ‘in-demand’ skills needs which may be either regulated (i.e. qualification based) or non-regulated (e.g. based on alignment with industry standards), enabling adults to do training around work and other commitments, looking to gain work, additional responsibilities, or access new opportunities and will offer a guaranteed job interview (in the case of a new job) to individual participants on completion of the course. o to address the needs of adults (19+) who are full-time and part-time employed, unemployed, returning to work after a break or self-employed, and provide individuals with wider access to opportunities to retrain, update or formalise their skills or acquire specialist skills. o to address the needs of local employers and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough economy, to deliver targeted interventions to meet short-medium term demand to fill vacancies and drive productivity. They will help fill medium-higher level vacancies and bring individuals closer to better jobs, by linking them with line of sight to a job/ different role, additional responsibilities or new opportunities/contracts. o to help fill vacancies and bring individuals closer to better jobs (including those currently in employment), by linking them with line of sight to a job / different role, additional responsibilities or new opportunities / contracts

Total Quantity or Scope

The Combined Authority is seeking to award service contract/s to multiple suppliers with a principal purpose of delivering Wave Five Skills Bootcamp provision by engaging adults aged 19 and above to provide them with the required knowledge and skills that will enable them to enter, and/or gain employment; apprenticeship/traineeship; or progress their employment with their existing employer; or progress their self-employment through the provision of Skills Bootcamps. The Authority has decided to use the Open Procedure for this project in accordance with the requirements of Regulation 27, PCRs2015. This is a single-stage process which addresses the mandatory and discretionary exclusions (through the completion of the part 1 & 2 SSQ) and quality assessments as a single stage. The Process will be managed on the Due North/Pro-Contract Portal, hosted by Bid-Eastern. For further information, please refer to the instructions and specification document.

Renewal Options

In the event that funding becomes available during Wave Five, or if further funding is secured from DfE for Wave Six Skills Bootcamps 2025-26 FY, contracts with Providers may be extended up to a maximum of 1 year 5 months (or a maximum end date of February 2027) from the initial contract end date, by giving no less than one month’s written notice to the Supplier. Any extension and addition of Extra Learners will be subject to: • funding availability and approval in subsequent years; • assessment of need; • performance within existing contract; • the Contractor agreeing to comply with any and all changes to the Combined Authority and/or DfE requirements at the time of extension/addition of Extra Learners; and • Payment Model to remain unchanged unless otherwise stipulated by the Combined Authority and the DfE I.e. the cost per learner per Skills Bootcamp course and the payment milestone percentages are to remain unchanged.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 80500000 - Training services

Indicators

• Bids should cover one or more lots.
• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• This is a recurring contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Award on basis of price.