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title: "Apprenticeship Levy - Multi Provider Flexible Procurement Agreement for the Provision of Apprenticeship Training"
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# Apprenticeship Levy - Multi Provider Flexible Procurement Agreement for the Provision of Apprenticeship Training

Buyer: SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c05a684a-5d5b-41d9-9a88-1221a3d3826b

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## Summary

Sunderland City Council is currently engaged in a public procurement process for the "Apprenticeship Levy - Multi Provider Flexible Procurement Agreement for the Provision of Apprenticeship Training." This initiative falls under the education and training services category, governed by the light touch regime of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The procurement period is open until 16 November 2017, with the contract period set to commence on 8 December 2017 and concluding on 7 December 2021. A total contract value of £500,000 has been allocated to facilitate various apprenticeship training services across the North East region of the United Kingdom.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in educational training, particularly those offering apprenticeship programmes from intermediate to degree levels. Suitable candidates for participation include both small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and larger training providers with the capacity to deliver high-quality training across the specified lots, which encompass care and support, economy services, corporate services, and people services. Additionally, vendors meeting specific study area needs may leverage the council's flexibility to introduce new providers as required throughout the agreement's duration.

## Notice

This is a notice for Administrative social, educational, healthcare and cultural services in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU/Article/74.These services are within the scope of Schedule 3 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 No 102 and are therefore subject to the 'light touch' public procurement regime in accordance with Section 7 of the 2015 Regulations. Individual codes include: 80 000 000 Education and training services. All operators interested in this Request to Participate should register an expression of interest online at 'www.neporportal.org' , Request to Participate Reference DN302261. All Request to Participate documents are available via this portal. The Council wishes to enter into a flexible procurement agreement with multiple training providers to deliver on a call-off basis high quality apprenticeship training from intermediate level to degree level across a variety of areas of study throughout the Council.For this agreement there will be 4 Lots as set out below based on the core Council service areas and each Lot will then contain a number of specific areas of specialist study within that Lot. Lot 1 - Care and Support; Lot 2 - Economy Place Based Services; Lot 3 - Corporate Services; Lot 4 - People Services.The Council reserves the right at its discretion through the term of the Agreement to advertise opportunities for additional providers to participate in this proposed Flexible Procurement Agreement in the following circumstances: (i) There are no existing ranked providers for a specialist study area within a Lot; or (ii) None of the ranked providers for a specialist study area have the capacity to perform an individual call-off requirement or they reject the call-off requirement.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/87472950-893f-403a-942d-008b458eff65 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | Large, SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 8 Mar 2018 |
| Submission deadline | 16 Nov 2017 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 27 Feb 2018 |
| Contract period | 1 Mar 2018 - 28 Feb 2022 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £500,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £2,880,000 |
| 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 | SUNDERLAND CITY COUNCIL |
| Locality | SUNDERLAND |
| Post town | Sunderland |
| Postcode | SR2 7DN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLC North East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear |
| ITL 3 | TLC44 Sunderland |
| Local authority | Sunderland |
| Electoral ward | Southwick |
| Westminster constituency | Sunderland Central |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 23 |
| Supplier names | ABSOLUTE CARE TRAINING & EDUCATION; BALTIC TRAINING SERVICES; BARNSLEY COLLEGE; DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE; ELIESHA TRAINING; GATESHEAD COLLEGE; GATESHEAD COUNCIL; INTEC BUSINESS COLLEGES; INTERSERVE LEARNING & EMPLOYMENT (SERVICES) LIMITED TRADING; IODA; KEITH STEVENSON AND ASSOCIATES; LEARNING CURVE GROUP; LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP; PEOPLEPLUS GROUP; QA; SKILLS TRAINING; SOUTH TYNESIDE COLLEGE; SPRINGBOARD SUNDERLAND TRUST; SUNDERLAND COLLEGE; TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY; TRN (TRAIN; UNIVERSITY CENTRE QUAYSIDE; UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

- 80000000 - Education and training services

## Release History

- 8 Mar 2018 at 09:02 - AwardUpdate - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/87472950-893f-403a-942d-008b458eff65
- 16 Oct 2017 at 12:47 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/87472950-893f-403a-942d-008b458eff65

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/87472950-893f-403a-942d-008b458eff65
  16th October 2017 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
- https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=bb3ce73d-52af-e711-80e6-005056b64545
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## Notice URLs

- http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/

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