Education & Skills Funding Agency Provision for Adults

Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council is seeking a supplier to provide the following Service: Education & Skills Funding Agency Provision for Adults

Skills & Learning Adult Community Education is the merged local authority adult learning provider covering all of Bournemouth, Dorset & Poole.

It holds a contract for the delivery of Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) funded provision for Adult Skills provision within Dorset.

Some of the funding received is allocated to third parties to enable the Service to increase its reach to priority learners.

Adult Learning is looking for bidders, with a proven track record of ESFA delivery to Adult learners, who can:
• Recruit priority learners aged 19+ who are either unemployed or under-employed
• Deliver a high quality provision that will increase their employability and wellbeing. For example, by improving their:
English, maths and ICT
Work-skills and general employability Behaviours, as relevant to the Workplace
• Understand the priorities and workings of the ESFA
• Contribute to local area skills needs as identified by Skills and Learning ACE and the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership
• Deliver the provision on the bidder’s premises, within Dorset, with the delivery being undertaken by appropriately qualified members of staff
• Undertake the necessary registration, certification and liaison with the awarding bodies (desirable)
• Maintain effective monitoring of learner progress
• Maintain a quality of delivery that will be judged at least ‘good’ by OFSTED
• Achieve a high level of learner outcomes, both in terms of success rates and positive progressions from their programmes for learners

The anticipated start date of the contract is August 2020. The contract will be for four years with the option to extend for a further two years (4+2). Therefore, if all extensions were taken the full length of the contract would be for six years.

A notice was sent to the European Journal regarding this opportunity on 3 March 2020.

To access the procurement documentation, bidders must click on the 'Register interest in this opportunity' button in the top right. Once bidders have registered their interest they can access the full procurement documentation from 'My Activities' on the home page. Bidders must ensure that they complete and submit the required documentation prior to the deadline indicated and in accordance with the instructions within the procurement documentation.