Adult Education - Functional Skills English and Mathematics

Concepts

• education and training
• city corporation
• functional skills english
• adult education
• functional skills
• mathematics
• education
• english
• small number of apprentices
• london residents

Location

Description

The City Corporation is seeking to appoint a training organisation to provide functional skills in English and mathematics training primarily to London residents who are disadvantaged and/or suffering deprivation arising from one or a combination of factors including, but not restricted to, poverty, health, housing or education. There may also a requirement to deliver functional skills in English and mathematics to a small number of apprentices employed by the City Corporation.

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 80400000 - Adult and other education services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.

Other Information

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) invites Training Organizations able to deliver demonstrably high-quality, highly successful, functional skills training in English and mathematics to the national Functional Skills Standards in English and mathematics at all levels from Entry 1 to Level 2 to quote for the provision of this service. Please note that learners registered after 1 September 2019 will work towards the reformed qualifications in these subjects. Further information on the legacy and reformed qualifications can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/functional-skills-qualifications-requi... This requirement will be on a subcontracting basis. A subcontractor as defined by the by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is an organisation that is engaged in a contractual and legally binding arrangement with one or more main providers, to deliver education and training provision that the ESFA funds. The City Corporation is the Main Provider (UKPRN: 10008915) The City Corporation invites quotations from training providers that satisfy the criteria in the ESFA Funding rules: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rules-... 19 Training organisations must be on the published Register of Training Organisations. The selected Training Organisation must not agree to use any further delivery subcontracting for training and/or on-programme assessment to a second level. The Training Organisation must keep to the ESFA funding rules, provide the City Corporation with the necessary and sufficient information to complete the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) to ensure that the lead provider's data returns accurately reflect delivery information and must give the City Corporation, and any other person nominated by them, access to their premises and to all documents related to their delivery of funded training. The City Corporation has a current requirement for up to 100 enrolments of English and mathematics functional skills across entry level to level 2 up to a maximum contract value of £75k. Learners can be enrolled from 1st March 2021 or the contract start date whichever is the later and must have completed their functional skills qualification(s) in full by 1st February 2022. To bid for this opportunity, suppliers must be registered on the Capital E Sourcing online tendering platform. The home page for this website can be found at the following address: https://www.capitalesourcing.com/web/login.shtml Once registered, the tender should be identifiable using the following project code: prj_COL_18407