--- title: "Apprenticeships System Improvement" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-712f7dc4-948d-4f18-8643-5c43dbbf612e" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-712f7dc4-948d-4f18-8643-5c43dbbf612e" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-712f7dc4-948d-4f18-8643-5c43dbbf612e.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-712f7dc4-948d-4f18-8643-5c43dbbf612e.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY" published: "2023-01-23" --- # Apprenticeships System Improvement Buyer: NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-712f7dc4-948d-4f18-8643-5c43dbbf612e [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-712f7dc4-948d-4f18-8643-5c43dbbf612e) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-712f7dc4-948d-4f18-8643-5c43dbbf612e.json) ## Summary The Nottingham Trent University is planning a tender for the project titled "Apprenticeships System Improvement" in the Software package and information systems industry category. The engagement end date for this planning stage is on 3rd February 2023. The university aims to explore product options to manage the overall Apprenticeship System with a focus on ensuring alignment with existing student processes. The location for this procurement is in the East Midlands region, United Kingdom. This tender presents an opportunity for businesses involved in software solutions for educational institutions to engage with Nottingham Trent University. As the university is actively expanding its apprenticeships programme, companies with expertise in system development, data management, and software solutions for educational institutions would be well-suited to compete. Smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are particularly encouraged to participate in this market engagement exercise as NTU specifies a preference for engaging with such entities. ## Notice NTU wish to undertake a pre-procurement market engagement exercise before any possible procurement is started, to determine suitable Apprenticeships System Improvement, systems and capabilities. NTU currently provides apprenticeships to c. 1800 students, with the programme being actively expanded in the course offering and intake. The current solution and processes in place for Degree Apprenticeships, both in managing the service, administrative function and data has been in place for around 4 years. This was developed at the time as an inhouse bespoke solution to support ILR production with other aspects of the programme being facilitated and maintained by a collection of systems, shared spreadsheets and manual updates. This approach was taken to ensure that the Apprenticeship system processes were aligned, where possible to standard student processes within Schools, reducing the overhead of a different approach, and to use existing solutions already in place for standard students such as Banner, CRM, InPlace and PebblePad. The growth of the Apprenticeships offering at NTU, together with the disparate systems and the manual administration used to manage the programme, has facilitated the requirement to investigate product options to manage the overall Apprenticeship System. At this stage we will not be formally assessing proposals, so nothing provided at this stage will be evaluated as part of any future procurement process. We welcome responses from organisations who feel that they have ideas on how our vision can be delivered, and comment on the extent to which our requirements are reasonable, realistic, and properly specified. If you feel your organisation can contribute to this exercise, please register/login to express interest via the EU Supply portal for further details. Please complete and sign the NDA to access the SMT document, provide responses to the enclosed questions and submit via the EU Supply Portal no later than 17:00 on Friday 3rd February 2023. Following receipt of the responses, and depending on the information we obtain from this exercise, we may invite a selection of respondents to attend separate workshop sessions to present and discuss their responses between 6th February and 17th February. Organisations not attending a session will not be disadvantaged in any future procurement, as this pre-procurement market engagement is only an exploratory fact-finding exercise: it is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. Any supplier invited to present or provide information to NTU is doing so to support pre-procurement market research only, to help make any future procurement more focused and efficient, and to clarify NTU's requirements. The expected formal procurement process will start only after completion of this pre-procurement market engagement or soft market testing exercise. Please apply via the EU Supply portal link provided in contact details. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/71e331c2-e5ac-4f31-a713-8cd2ecaa8e27 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 23 Jan 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 3 Feb 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY | | Locality | NOTTINGHAM | | Post town | Nottingham | | Postcode | NG1 4FQ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLF East Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLF1 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | | ITL 3 | TLF14 Nottingham | | Local authority | Nottingham | | Electoral ward | St. Ann's | | Westminster constituency | Nottingham East | | Delivery location | TLF East Midlands (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 48 - Software package and information systems ### Codes - 48000000 - Software package and information systems ## Release History - 23 Jan 2023 at 09:24 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/71e331c2-e5ac-4f31-a713-8cd2ecaa8e27 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/71e331c2-e5ac-4f31-a713-8cd2ecaa8e27 23rd January 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Notice URLs - https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/supplier/publictenders?B=NTU ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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