Notice Information
Notice Title
CO6118 Ideas Store Learning Hub
Notice Description
Idea Store Learning, the community adult learning provision for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is tasked with enabling residents to develop the skills they need to become active citizens, progress in work and express themselves across different media. More than 3000 local residents enrol on over 6000 course places to develop their work and life prospects. Courses ranging from ESOL and maths to visual and performing arts enable learners to progress into employment, enhance their work skills, communicate more effectively, improve their health and wellbeing, support their children's learning and create stronger, connected communities. Digital skills are integral to the provision with digital communication and teaching embedded across all courses. Specific digital skills courses from beginner to advanced form an essential growing part of the provision as well as the council's Digital Inclusion Strategy. The current digital skills infrastructure needs updating to meet the demands of today's and tomorrow's world. The existing set up limits the use and teaching of cloud-based technologies including Microsoft 365. Digital security concerns require the learning environment to be separate from the Council's corporate network. Consequently, learners have no automated institutional email address and/or accounts, and limited means of sharing work, communicating digitally in a secure manner, or easy access to a VLE.
Planning Information
Idea Store Learning, the community adult learning provision for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is tasked with enabling residents to develop the skills they need to become active citizens, progress in work and express themselves across different media. The current digital skills infrastructure needs updating to meet the demands of today’s and tomorrow’s world. Idea Store Learning are interested in hearing from third party providers to set up and run the below proposed changes: • All Idea Store Learners have a Tower Hamlets’ Idea Store Learning email and access/licence to Microsoft 365 - including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, OneNote and other key apps • Digital skills learners have access to the above apps within a learning environment and as desktop apps. • All learners to share files and collaborate in the usual cloud-based manner • All learners use Teams for Education as the provision’s VLE • All learners able to use Co-pilot in line with data-protection policies • All learners able to use and learn about key AI tools as ChatGPT and other LLMs • Future-proofed digital skills provision so it can respond to changes in workplace and everyday practices and run a varied, modern and skills-based curriculum – including developing a process of updating digital software to ensure the curriculum is agile and responsive to a changing world • Access and safeguarding arrangements support an inclusive learning environment • A single sign-on process ensures learner accounts are set up at enrolment • Digitally secure sign-on processes • Ongoing support and management to ensure learners and tutors receive timely help and data security is maintained 2nd June 2025 Interested parties to submit an outline of experience in this area and a brief account of the steps they would take to institute the proposed changes W/B 9th June 2025 Selected providers will be invited to one-one meetings where the delivery model proposals can be assessed For access to further details and/or to register interest please visit the London Tenders Portal https://www.londontenders.org/
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-051191
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020687-2025
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
48000000 - Software package and information systems
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £100,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 2 Jun 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- TOWER HAMLETS
- Contact Name
- Ms Morgan Hughes
- Contact Email
- morgan.hughes@towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2073644099
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- E1 1BJ
- Post Town
- East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI42 Tower Hamlets
- Delivery Location
- TLI London
-
- Local Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Electoral Ward
- Whitechapel
- Westminster Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020687-2025
13th May 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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