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title: "24094 GCP Skills & Apprenticeship Service 2025"
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# 24094 GCP Skills & Apprenticeship Service 2025

Buyer: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ON BEHALF OF THE GREATER CAMBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-50201406-d108-4f07-ae7f-73fc6b8dcd18

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## Summary

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.

## Notice

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.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/86503458-2ca0-494f-95a9-c74d0e62e314 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 6 Feb 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 11 Dec 2024 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 31 Jan 2025 |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £1,600,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £1,600,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ON BEHALF OF THE GREATER CAMBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP |
| Locality | HUNTINGDON |
| Post town | Peterborough |
| Postcode | PE28 4YE |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough |
| ITL 3 | TLH42 Cambridgeshire CC |
| Local authority | Huntingdonshire |
| Electoral ward | The Stukeleys |
| Westminster constituency | Huntingdon |
| 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) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | FORM THE FUTURE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- 80000000 - Education and training services

## Release History

- 6 Feb 2025 at 09:44 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/86503458-2ca0-494f-95a9-c74d0e62e314
- 7 Nov 2024 at 17:06 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4970698b-c4cf-42ed-a210-d0b3ed8bcd8e

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/86503458-2ca0-494f-95a9-c74d0e62e314
  6th February 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4970698b-c4cf-42ed-a210-d0b3ed8bcd8e
  7th November 2024 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder

## Notice URLs

- https://procontract.due-north.com/Register
- https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/

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