Planning

Sustainability Leadership and Climate Action Plans - Support Hub

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Planning

20 Apr 2023 at 08:32

Planning

04 Apr 2023 at 15:18

Summary of the contracting process

The Department for Education has initiated a planned procurement for a contract titled "Sustainability Leadership and Climate Action Plans - Support Hub". The procurement falls under the industry category of Environmental engineering consultancy services. The procurement process is currently at the planning stage, with a communication future notice date set for 25th May 2023. The expected contract period is from 26th July 2023 to 24th July 2025. The Department is seeking an experienced provider to create an online support hub facilitating sustainability in education, including decarbonisation, adaptation, biodiversity, and climate education, aimed at embedding climate change principles in educational activities.

This tender opportunity presents a chance for businesses in the environmental consultancy and education support sectors to collaborate with the Department for Education in promoting sustainability in the education sector. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) are encouraged to participate. Companies interested in providing high-quality environmental sustainability training, assistance in climate action planning, and engagement campaigns for sector awareness are well-suited to compete for this contract and contribute to the development of a holistic approach towards sustainability and climate action in education.

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Notice Title

Sustainability Leadership and Climate Action Plans - Support Hub

Notice Description

**Update 20/04/23 - This update provides notice of a Supplier Engagement Event that will be held 9th May 2023 (expected 10:00 to 11:30 - tbc)** Should you wish to attend the event, please email DFE.SUSTAINABILITY@education.gov.uk to request details / an invitation. Expected contract start / end dates have also been updated. The Department is looking to procure an experienced and prominent national lead provider (or consortia) to design and produce an online 'Sustainability Leadership in Education' support hub to enable the design, development and implementation of climate action plans. These plans should facilitate a holistic approach to sustainability in education, covering key action in decarbonisation, adaptation and resilience to climate-related risks to education services, green infrastructure/biodiversity, and climate education and green careers. The support hub will thus give guidance, information and capability for individual settings to embed climate change and sustainability in their operational and educational activities. Specific functions include: - Develop an online self-assessment tool for sustainability leads to assess their setting's current capacity to deliver a wholistic approach to sustainability, ranging from their estates management to their provision of quality climate education and green careers. The self-assessment tool should match up to the following areas that are core to developing a holistic climate action plan: decarbonisation/energy efficiency, adaptation and resilience, biodiversity/green infrastructure, climate education and green skills and careers. Once a setting has completed its self-assessment, the support hub should then advert them to resources that will enable them to develop and progress their climate action plans, leading to informed action. The winning organisation/consortia will be required to: - Deep-dive and rapidly assemble a directory of high-quality environmental sustainability training courses appropriate to sustainability leads in education settings. - Deep-dive and rapidly assemble a directory of suitable organisations who can provide high-quality assistance to education settings in constructing a climate action plan, relating directly to the buckets of action outlined above. - Develop a communications and engagement campaign to ensure sector awareness, promotion, and up-take of the tool and resources. At this stage we are looking for the market to register interest in bidding for this work (contact details below). We will look to hold market engagement days so that interested parties may request more detail about this opportunity. Additional information: Background: In April 2022 the Department published its Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. As part of that Strategy we committed to support the sector in appointing a Sustainability Lead who will develop a tailored Climate Action Plan to outline how the setting will take action to embed sustainability and climate change in all that they do. From curriculum, careers and culture, to decarbonisation, adaptation and biodiversity as it relates to their physical settings. become more environmentally sustainable. This procurement is a part of this initiative within the strategy and aims to provide direct sector support to implement this.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-b5fd17-43fa6bb2-c040-4ee5-b5cc-5ebaafeb556f
Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/70648544-fadb-4898-81ca-41b498e85e7d
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Planned Procurement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Not specified
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services


CPV Codes

71313000 - Environmental engineering consultancy services

73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

73120000 - Experimental development services

73300000 - Design and execution of research and development

90700000 - Environmental services

90711000 - Environmental impact assessment other than for construction

90722000 - Environmental rehabilitation

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£840,000 £500K-£1M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
20 Apr 20232 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
9 May 2023Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
10 Sep 2023 - 11 Sep 2025 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
dfe.sustainability@education.gov.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SW1P 3BT
Post Town
South West London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI3 Inner London - West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI35 Westminster and City of London
Delivery Location
TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)

Local Authority
Westminster
Electoral Ward
St James's
Westminster Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster

Further Information

Notice Documents

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