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title: "Emerging Skills Project in Electrification"
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# Emerging Skills Project in Electrification

Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02b0dd

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## Summary

The Department for Education is conducting an active procurement process titled "Emerging Skills Project in Electrification," which falls under the education and training services category. This initiative is focused on electrification and aims to enhance the skills necessary for the adoption of emerging technologies within the UK. The contract is valued at approximately £1,398,000 and encompasses the development and delivery of training courses addressing the skills gaps identified in a foresighting exercise conducted earlier this year. Key deadlines include the tender submission period, which ends on 21 July 2021, with the bid opening scheduled for 23 July 2021.

This procurement presents significant growth opportunities for businesses specialising in educational services, training content development, and skill delivery in emerging technologies. Organisations that have the capacity to collaborate effectively and demonstrate expertise in creating training solutions for electrification would be well-suited to participate in this tender. The emphasis on collaborative working is crucial, and businesses equipped to engage in partnerships with educational institutions or other training providers will be particularly competitive in this process.

## Notice

'Emerging Skills' are defined as those related to 'Emerging Technologies' and necessary to exploit their application in industry as they become widespread. The technologies themselves may have existed for some time or be cutting-edge, but their diffusion into industry is at an early stage, with low take-up ahead of widescale adoption. Examples include industrial digitalisation technologies such as additive manufacturing, robotics, AI, electrification and advanced materials. Following January's Skills for Jobs White Paper, we launched the first Emerging Skills Project in partnership with the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and the Institutes of Technology. This project uses the Skills Value Chain approach to stimulate the adoption of cutting-edge skills in a given sector. The Skills Value Chain is made up of three core activities, delivered collaboratively in succession: * Foresighting, an activity that forecasts emerging skills in a sector and identifies the gap in current provision and future need. * Development of open license training content to meet the gaps identified in foresighting. * Skills Diffusion, which consists of: o 'Train the trainer' days. o Provision of no-charge trainee days to upskill employees in the new emerging skills training content. In addition to announcing the first Emerging Skills Project, the White Paper also explored whether this Skills Value Chain approach can be used in other emerging skills areas and to support Government priorities such as net zero. The focus for this second, net-zero project, is electrification. This project will provide some of the skills needed to deliver Point 4 of the Government's ten-point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution - accelerating the shift to zero emission vehicles

### Lot Information

Lot 1

This procurement exercise is to put in place a contract to deliver the second two activities of the Skills Value Chain. The first activity, foresighting, will be delivered under a separate agreement. The services required are: 1. Development of short courses to meet emerging skills needs in electrification using the outputs from foresighting conducted in the Summer 2021. 2. Training and other necessary support of teaching staff in chosen providers to teach the courses developed at (1) through 'train the trainer' training days. 3. Delivery of courses developed at (1) to learner through the upskilling days for employees in the sector. As the Skills Value Chain requires collaboration between organisations, we would expect bids to demonstration collaborative working.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024844-2021 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 5 Oct 2021 |
| Submission deadline | 21 Jul 2021 |
| Future notice date | 20 Jun 2021 |
| Award date | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £1,398,000 |
| Lots value | £1,398,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £1,300,404 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1P 3BT |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | THE HIGH VALUE MANUFACTURING CATAPULT |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

- 80000000 - Education and training services
- 80500000 - Training services

## Release History

- 5 Oct 2021 at 21:45 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024844-2021
- 29 Jun 2021 at 21:45 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/014893-2021
- 13 May 2021 at 21:55 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010604-2021

## Notice URLs

- https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emerging-skills-programme-in-electrification-pre-market-engagement-webinar-tickets-154230765371
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education

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