Planning

Wave 6 Train4Tomorrow ‘Skills For Life’ - Skills Bootcamps

  • Devon County Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-012355

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04fb92 (view related notices)

Published 1 April 2025, 4:40pm



Scope

Reference

CP2593-24

Description

The overall aims of the Skills Bootcamps are:

To deliver *flexible training programmes lasting up to 16 weeks, based on 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.

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

To address the needs of employers and the wider 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

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

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 22 July 2025 to 31 October 2026
  • Possible extension to 31 October 2027
  • 2 years, 3 months, 10 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 80300000 - Higher education services
  • 80400000 - Adult and other education services
  • 80500000 - Training services
  • 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Contract locations

  • UKK4 - Devon

Engagement

Engagement deadline

19 August 2024

The engagement was carried out before this notice was published.

Engagement process description

Devon County Council wishes to inform the market of a market engagement that has already been undertaken.

Expressions of interest were issued to a selected group of known SkillsBootcamps providers, Chambers, LSIP, Local Authorities and District Councils and key Employers on 6th August 2024 to provide information that could be used to inform DCC's Department for Education grant application for the financial year 2025/2026.The requested information was around skills needs, supplemented by open vacancy data for sectors/roles. They were given until 19th August 2024 to respond. The outcome of the process would be included in the tender document once published.


Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

3 April 2025


Procedure

Special regime

Light touch


Contracting authority

Devon County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PJRC-4623-RJBH

County Hall, Topsham Road

Exeter

EX2 4QD

United Kingdom

Contact name: Mrs Ejovwoke Barovbe

Telephone: +44 1392380274

Email: ejovwoke.barovbe@devon.gov.uk

Website: http://www.devon.gov.uk

Region: UKK43 - Devon CC

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government