--- title: "Learning and Development on Race Equality" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-8e37cbfb-6cfe-4317-ad73-8840d0aba265" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-8e37cbfb-6cfe-4317-ad73-8840d0aba265" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-8e37cbfb-6cfe-4317-ad73-8840d0aba265.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-8e37cbfb-6cfe-4317-ad73-8840d0aba265.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "LONDON COUNCILS" published: "2022-05-16" --- # Learning and Development on Race Equality Buyer: LONDON COUNCILS Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-8e37cbfb-6cfe-4317-ad73-8840d0aba265 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-8e37cbfb-6cfe-4317-ad73-8840d0aba265) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-8e37cbfb-6cfe-4317-ad73-8840d0aba265.json) ## Summary The London Councils is currently accepting tenders for a project titled "Learning and Development on Race Equality." This initiative falls under the training services industry and is aimed at enhancing the organisation's approach to race equality. The tender is open and scheduled to close on 18 May 2022 at 12:00 PM. The selected contractor will engage in activities that contribute to the Corporate Race Equality Strategy 2022-25, with the contract period starting from 10 June 2022 and concluding on 31 March 2025. Interested parties are encouraged to send their queries by 13 May 2022, as the London Councils aims to respond within one working day. This tender provides excellent opportunities for businesses focused on training and consultancy, particularly in race equality and diversity initiatives. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) that have experience in developing training programmes or strategic frameworks for diversity and inclusion will find themselves well-suited to compete for this contract. With a budget of £90,000, this contract is not only a chance to contribute to an important social cause but also a means to expand service offerings and grow professionally within the public sector landscape. ## Notice London Councils represents London's 32 borough councils and the City of London. It is a cross party organisation that works on behalf of all of its member authorities regardless of political persuasion. London Councils makes the case to government, the Mayor and others to get the best deal for Londoners and to ensure that our member authorities have the resources, freedoms and powers to do the best possible job for their residents and local businesses. The organisation's race equality journey started in summer 2020 when colleagues at London Councils shared a clear appetite to establish how the organisation can be more proactive on race equality. We have since spent time outlining and framing the key steps we must take as an organisation to understand and define our role and responsibility. These key steps were initially and primarily reflected through recommendations put forward by an internal Race Equality task & finish group. These recommendations laid the grounding for our internal Race Equality Working Group's (the next phase of the task & finish group) subsequent activity to help shape our Corporate Strategy - this was comprised of the appointment of a Race Equality lead, engagement with all staff at London Councils and a range of initial actions and changes that have contributed to embedding race equality within the organisation (see Appendix C for a detailed outline of our journey). London Councils employs c.130 people, including c.40 colleagues from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds - seven of these colleagues are in senior manager roles (additional information about our workforce's ethnic composition can be found in appendix C). The core outcome of our internal race equality work to date has been to establish the strategic ambition for the organisation, as articulated in our new Corporate Race Equality Strategy 2022-25. The Strategy outlines the steps we are taking to strive towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. To continue our race equality journey and help achieve our ambitions we want race equality to be central within our broader learning and development framework. Therefore we are seeking a contractor(s) to deliver the components of our learning and development ambitions, as outlined in the specification below. Additional information: The Query Log will be uploaded here as and when queries are received - please check back throughout the advertising period for updates. We will aim to answer queries within 1 working day. The deadline for queries is Noon, Friday 13 May, 2022. Queries received after this will not be answered. Tenders queries should be sent to the Tenders email address and cc'd to the named contact - both available in the Tender document. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f220d780-9754-41fd-95fa-009e5e05d967 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure (below threshold) | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 16 May 2022 | | Submission deadline | 18 May 2022 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 9 Jun 2022 - 31 Mar 2025 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £90,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | LONDON COUNCILS | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South East London | | Postcode | SE1 0AL | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark | | Local authority | Southwark | | Electoral ward | Borough & Bankside | | Westminster constituency | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | | Delivery location | TLI London | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 80 - Education and training services ### Codes - 80500000 - Training services ## Release History - 16 May 2022 at 09:24 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f220d780-9754-41fd-95fa-009e5e05d967 - 29 Apr 2022 at 14:06 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f220d780-9754-41fd-95fa-009e5e05d967 - 26 Apr 2022 at 15:27 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f220d780-9754-41fd-95fa-009e5e05d967 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f220d780-9754-41fd-95fa-009e5e05d967 16th May 2022 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/57c48106-ea24-47c0-ab58-0cb2d0c94104 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/da6e3671-5cb2-495c-9dde-5964805bed99 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/4ef01e09-77fd-4dd2-8873-bf212abf77f3 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/7df28936-d7c8-45cd-9385-81b6171917aa C0422a Query Log as at 29-04-22 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/be0e3009-774e-40ff-beb0-954433d952b6 Final Query Log ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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