--- title: "Social Work Workforce Division Supplier Engagement" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04026f" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04026f" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04026f.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04026f.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION" published: "2023-09-20" --- # Social Work Workforce Division Supplier Engagement Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04026f [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04026f) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04026f.json) ## Summary The Department for Education is planning a tender titled "Social Work Workforce Division Supplier Engagement" in the education and training services category. The aim is to gather insights and feedback from interested organisations to enhance program delivery. An initial Supplier Engagement Event is scheduled for October 3rd, followed by a questionnaire open until October 20th. The Department plans to use the feedback to shape its commercial approach, with a networking event for suppliers expected in early 2024. This tender provides an opportunity for businesses interested in social work, education, training, and health services sectors to engage with the Department for Education. Suppliers can participate in the Supplier Engagement Event by registering on the DfE Jaggaer eTendering portal. The Department seeks input on barriers to bidding, improvement suggestions, and past experiences. Businesses looking to collaborate with the Department in delivering high-quality programs and services should engage in this supplier feedback process. ## Notice **This notice does not relate to a procurement opportunity** Social Work Workforce Division deliver a suite of workforce programmes spanning across initial education, continuous professional development and children's services leadership. Over the coming months, we are undertaking a project to further understand our market for the purposes of continuing to deliver high quality and impactful programmes. ### Lot Information Lot 1 Social Work Workforce (SWW) Division sits within the Children's Social Care Directorate at the Department for Education. We currently deliver a suite of workforce programmes spanning across initial education, continuous professional development and children's services leadership. Over the coming months, we are undertaking a project to further understand our market for the purposes of continuing to deliver high quality and impactful programmes to the sector, covering topics such as embedding social value, divisional strategic priorities and wider commercial principles. To commence this project, we are first inviting insight and feedback from all organisations who are interested in our division's commercial activity. This may include those who have previously attended a market engagement event, considered or submitted a tender for a SWW programme contract. Initially, we would like to better understand any barriers to bidding, opportunities as to how the Department could improve its tender processes and previous organisations' experiences of working with our division, in either considering or submitting a tender. An initial Supplier Engagement Event will be held on Tuesday 3rd October from 12.30 - 1pm. This event is open to all organisations , whether or not they have engaged with the Department previously. In this session, we will introduce the project team, provide an overview of the objectives of this project, and clarify the initial themes we are seeking feedback on in our initial supplier questionnaire which will be launched shortly after the event. The questionnaire will be open for responses from Tuesday 3rd October until Friday 20th October and will be made available after the event via Jaggaer. Over the coming months, we will use this information to shape our division's approach to our commercial work. We anticipate hosting an in person information and networking event for suppliers in early 2024. Further details of this will be circulated at a later date. How to engage To register your interest to participate in our supplier engagement activity, you will need to be registered as a supplier on the DfE Jaggaer eTendering portal, available at https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html Once registered the information will be accessible via the 'View Opportunities' link on the Homepage. Select the Opportunity Notice for Social Work Workforce Division Supplier Engagement. This will be an online event hosted on Microsoft Teams. To book a place, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dfe-social-work-workforce-supplier-engagement-event-tickets-719796299107?aff=oddtdtcreator. If you cannot / or do not intend to attend the Supplier Engagement Event, we would welcome your comments/questions via the questionnaire. Please use the Jaggaer e-procurement system https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html to submit any additional questions you may have about this project. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027827-2023 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 20 Sep 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 19 Sep 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 | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## 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 | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 80 - Education and training services - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 80000000 - Education and training services - 80300000 - Higher education services - 80400000 - Adult and other education services - 80500000 - Training services - 85000000 - Health and social work services - 85100000 - Health services ## Release History - 20 Sep 2023 at 15:58 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027827-2023 ## Notice URLs - https://education.app.jaggaer.com/ - https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dfe-social-work-workforce-supplier-engagement-event-tickets-719796299107?aff=oddtdtcreator ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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