Invitation to Tender Building Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products in Local Authority Regulatory Services

Concepts

• education and training
• product safety
• local authority regulatory services
• legal metrology and construction products
• local authority enforcement
• local authority capability
• product-related harm
• confidence local authority regulatory services
• national and local regulation
• construction products

Location

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Department for International Trade

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Description

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.

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services

Indicators

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

Other Information

To register for this opportunity and submit a bid, please sign up to our procurement platform Jaggaer: https://uktrade.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html. The ITT reference number for this opportunity is itt_511. If you have any issues signing up to the platform, please contact Cara Jenkins (cara.jenkins@businessandtrade.gov.uk).