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24094 GCP Skills & Apprenticeship Service 2025

CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ON BEHALF OF THE GREATER CAMBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP

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Award

06 Feb 2025 at 09:44

Tender

07 Nov 2024 at 17:06

Summary of the contracting process

Cambridgeshire County Council, on behalf of the Greater Cambridge Partnership, has completed the procurement process for the "24094 GCP Skills & Apprenticeship Service 2025" project valued at £1.6 million. This initiative focuses on delivering education and training services, including apprenticeships, mentoring, and career guidance across Greater Cambridge, a key area for economic growth in the UK. The awarded contract, announced on 6th February 2025, has been granted to Form the Future CIC and will run from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2027. The project's objectives include collaboration with local businesses, schools, and governmental bodies to ensure efficient delivery of services without overlapping existing efforts.

This tender presents substantial opportunities for businesses specialising in education and training services, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs). Companies that can provide comprehensive training programmes, robust mentoring, and career guidance are well-positioned to benefit from this contract. Engaging in this project can help businesses expand their operations, enhance their service offerings, and strengthen their community ties within the fast-growing Greater Cambridge region.

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Notice Title

24094 GCP Skills & Apprenticeship Service 2025

Notice Description

This project is an opportunity to deliver key skills activities in Greater Cambridge. These activities will fundamentally underpin the growth of the economy in one of fastest growing areas of the UK. This project has a number of core themes (listed below) including delivering apprenticeships and training opportunities, mentoring and careers guidance. In delivering these activities the successful bidder will be required to work across the breadth of the Greater Cambridge ecosystem. The successful bidder will need work in collaboration with the Greater Cambridge community and specifically with businesses, schools, membership organisations and other educational establishments. The service will require a close working relationship with other local government bodies, such as the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, to ensure joined up working and avoiding duplication of efforts. The Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) has been funding specific skills activity across the last ten years. Current activity, as set out in our latest reports is broadly delivering well against its KPI's. We want to see continued delivery in these key areas. The GCP is now looking to expand on the success of the existing provision and provide a service with a wider focus. The Authority have invested in an e-tendering tool in order to facilitate its tendering processes in a compliant and transparent manner. Potential Providers will need to register an account via the ProContract Portal; at https://procontract.due-north.com/Register before being able to view the full tender details. In order to access the tender documentation, click ;Find Opportunities & then on the drop-down menu, filter by Cambridgeshire Public Services by clicking on Update to find the relevant opportunity or alternatively within the organisations drop down select Cambridgeshire County Council to also find the relevant opportunity.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-b5fd17-50201406-d108-4f07-ae7f-73fc6b8dcd18
Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/86503458-2ca0-494f-95a9-c74d0e62e314
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

80 - Education and training services


CPV Codes

79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

80000000 - Education and training services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£1,600,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£1,600,000 £1M-£10M
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
6 Feb 20251 years ago
Submission Deadline
11 Dec 2024Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
31 Jan 20251 years ago
Contract Period
31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2027 1-2 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ON BEHALF OF THE GREATER CAMBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP
Contact Name
Jon Collyns
Contact Email
jon.collyns@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Contact Phone
+44 7775703930

Buyer Location

Locality
HUNTINGDON
Postcode
PE28 4YE
Post Town
Peterborough
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLH East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLH42 Cambridgeshire CC
Delivery Location
TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)

Local Authority
Huntingdonshire
Electoral Ward
The Stukeleys
Westminster Constituency
Huntingdon

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

FORM THE FUTURE

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