CPCA - Adult Education Budget (AEB) and Skills Bootcamps

Concepts

• education and training
• cpca
• ely
• high quality adult education
• adult education budget
• cpca region
• national skills fund
• cpca residents
• aeb
• cpca for level 3 courses

Location

Description

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (the CPCA) covers the Local Authority areas of Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge City Council, Peterborough City Council, Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, East Cambridgeshire District Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council. The CPCA intends to procure high quality adult education and training. CPCA are seeking to build effective contractual relationships and continue to implement local flexibilities through our devolution agreement. Successful training providers will deliver contracts for services that meet our quality standards and delivery expectations aligned to the skills needs of the CPCA region. Through the tendering process successful providers will demonstrate an understanding of our local authority areas, the needs of resident learners and employers, and how they would work alongside our FE Colleges and Local Authority grant funded organisations to add value to the local curriculum offer for CPCA residents. From the 2019/20 academic year, the CPCA has held responsibility for the regions share of devolved Adult Education Budget (AEB) and how it is delivered. In addition to the AEB, further government funding from the National Skills Fund has been delegated to the CPCA for Level 3 Courses for the 2022/23 academic year. And, wave 3 Skills Bootcamps for the 2022/23 academic year. We expect that funding for the new Multiply programme will be allocated to the CPCA for a three-year period from 2022/23 - 2024-25 academic year. Please be aware that at the time of publication, funding for Multiply has not been confirmed however is being included in this procurement to enable us to efficiently plan for and procure providers ready for launch in September 2022. The vision is to increase skills and career progression through the network of providers operating as a 'skills escalator', in enabling adults increasing their skills levels, their productivity, and quality of life, by progressing from lower to higher levels of learning and earnings. A headline focus of this Commissioning round is to: • Increase the proportion of Peterborough and Fenland residents with a Level 3 qualification • Reduce the number of Peterborough and Fenland residents with no formal qualifications • Target residents living in the relatively most deprived postcodes in the sub-regions, including wider Cambridgeshire and parts of Cambridge City AEB is up to £3,500,000 for 2022/23 to 2026/27 Bootcamps is £4,570,500 for 2022/23 to 2023/24

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.
• Contract is suitable for VCOs.

Other Information

The commissioning statement is available on the e-tendering portal Advert https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=d910a063-7a7f-ec11-8110-005056...