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title: "Building Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products in Local Authority Regulatory Services"
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# Building Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products in Local Authority Regulatory Services

Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS AND TRADE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03b3e6

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## Summary

The Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is planning a procurement process titled "Building Local Authority Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products." This opportunity falls under the services category for training services. The contract aims to develop skills and capabilities in Local Authority Regulatory Services, including Trading Standards and Environmental Health regulators across the UK. The contract will focus on delivering training programs and e-learning packages to enhance regulatory enforcement and coordination nationally and locally.

This tender presents an opportunity for businesses involved in education and training services to engage with the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy. The contract aims to support the development of national and local regulatory skills in product safety and legal metrology. Businesses proficient in providing specialist training programs, e-learning resources, and evaluation services within the regulatory domain would be well-suited to compete for this opportunity. Key dates include the future notice date of March 17th, 2023, with planned engagement activities for interested suppliers. The contract's procurement stage is currently at the planning phase, with no specific deadline for submissions mentioned.

## Notice

The Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS) was established by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Strategy in 2018 and is the national regulator for product safety, legal metrology and construction products. Our purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence Local Authority Regulatory Services (LARS1) also have statutory obligations for the delivery of regulation with regard to product safety, legal metrology and construction products. As national regulator for Product Safety and Legal Metrology, OPSS provides national capacity and supports local authority enforcement and coordination of national and local regulation. As the national regulator for Construction Products, it is building the national regulator function and establishing local authority capability. The requirement is for Development and delivery of a specialist annual Learning & Development (L & D) programme in accordance with a detailed specification including, sourcing trainers, development of specialist technical course resources, all course administration including booking venues and delegate management.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The contract requires the Supplier to deliver the following outputs: (i) Each year develop and deliver specialist, technical and practical products, e-learning packages, tools and activities. To be set out in a programme at the beginning of each year with clear learning objectives, dates & times, delivery method, numbers and evaluation approach. (ii) Conduct ongoing evaluation of the learning and development of LARS within each year and throughout the lifetime of the contract as specified below. (iii) At the end of each financial year submit a summary report of the evaluation to be agreed with OPSS, including but not limited to: * details of activities * number of training days, * delegate satisfaction, * evidence that learning objectives have been met; * delegate and geographical take up * Diversity and inclusion (iv) Conduct and submit an annual assessment of learning and development needs ahead of each year's delivery programme. This includes an assessment in to be conducted in the final year on the contract for (see Table 1 above). (v) Provide metrics on request to support OPSS reporting and evaluation of the success of the programme. (vi) Submit a quarterly performance report, outlining what has been delivered, with metrics which demonstrate key milestones and learning objectives being met and which support the overarching aims in paragraph 1.

Renewal: This contract will be on a 1+1+1 basis, with the initial contract term being 12 months.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037709-2023 |
| 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 | 21 Dec 2023 |
| Submission deadline | 17 Oct 2023 |
| Future notice date | 17 Mar 2023 |
| Award date | 6 Dec 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £750,000 |
| Lots value | £750,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £749,048 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS AND TRADE |
| Additional buyers | DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | N/A |
| 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 | TLI London, TLI32 Westminster |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 2 |
| Supplier names | CHARTERED TRADING STANDARDS INSTITUTE; FAAB TRAINING |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

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

## Release History

- 21 Dec 2023 at 14:46 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037709-2023
- 14 Sep 2023 at 16:14 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027259-2023
- 17 Mar 2023 at 14:15 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007846-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://uktrade.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-and-trade
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy

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