Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Department for Education
Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://education.app.jaggaer.com/
Buyer's address
https://education.app.jaggaer.com/
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority
one.5) Main activity
Education
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Social Work Workforce Division Supplier Engagement
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 80000000 - Education and training services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
**This notice does not relate to a procurement opportunity**
Social Work Workforce Division deliver a suite of workforce programmes spanning across initial education, continuous professional development and children’s services leadership.
Over the coming months, we are undertaking a project to further understand our market for the purposes of continuing to deliver high quality and impactful programmes.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 80300000 - Higher education services
- 80400000 - Adult and other education services
- 80500000 - Training services
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- 85100000 - Health services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Social Work Workforce (SWW) Division sits within the Children’s Social Care Directorate at the Department for Education. We currently deliver a suite of workforce programmes spanning across initial education, continuous professional development and children’s services leadership.
Over the coming months, we are undertaking a project to further understand our market for the purposes of continuing to deliver high quality and impactful programmes to the sector, covering topics such as embedding social value, divisional strategic priorities and wider commercial principles.
To commence this project, we are first inviting insight and feedback from all organisations who are interested in our division’s commercial activity. This may include those who have previously attended a market engagement event, considered or submitted a tender for a SWW programme contract.
Initially, we would like to better understand any barriers to bidding, opportunities as to how the Department could improve its tender processes and previous organisations’ experiences of working with our division, in either considering or submitting a tender.
An initial Supplier Engagement Event will be held on Tuesday 3rd October from 12.30 – 1pm. This event is open to all organisations , whether or not they have engaged with the Department previously. In this session, we will introduce the project team, provide an overview of the objectives of this project, and clarify the initial themes we are seeking feedback on in our initial supplier questionnaire which will be launched shortly after the event.
The questionnaire will be open for responses from Tuesday 3rd October until Friday 20th October and will be made available after the event via Jaggaer.
Over the coming months, we will use this information to shape our division’s approach to our commercial work.
We anticipate hosting an in person information and networking event for suppliers in early 2024. Further details of this will be circulated at a later date.
How to engage
To register your interest to participate in our supplier engagement activity, you will need to be registered as a supplier on the DfE Jaggaer eTendering portal, available at
https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
Once registered the information will be accessible via the ‘View Opportunities’ link on the Homepage. Select the Opportunity Notice for Social Work Workforce Division Supplier Engagement.
This will be an online event hosted on Microsoft Teams. To book a place, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dfe-social-work-workforce-supplier-engagement-event-tickets-719796299107?aff=oddtdtcreator.
If you cannot / or do not intend to attend the Supplier Engagement Event, we would welcome your comments/questions via the questionnaire.
Please use the Jaggaer e-procurement system https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html to submit any additional questions you may have about this project.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
20 September 2023
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No