DPS for Skills Providers and Training Provision, Skills For Growth: Cheshire and Warrington: ESF Ref: 03S19P03307

The University of Chester have a need to appoint suitably qualified organisations to a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to deliver training and education, for delivery specifically within Cheshire and Warrington in partnership commencing 3rd February 2020 - 30th November 2022 with the option to extend a further 10 months. The University seeks to contract for high quality provision which complements but does not compete with its own provision, meets the needs of employers, and/or benefits the local community. The DPS is for Skills Providers and Training Provision for the Skills for Growth: Cheshire and Warrington project. This project is part funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) Project Reference Number 03S19P03307. SSQs in the first round must reach us via the e-tendering portal https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofchester by 10:00 10th January 2020. Any SSQs received after this time will not be evaluated at this point but after the first round further competition.

This opportunity has also been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) number 2019/S 233-571922.

Update 01/04/20 with the ongoing development of this project and the changes to potential delivery being required by the current lockdown in the UK the University is going to formally open all SSQs returned after 10th January 2020. The opening of these SSQs will take place after 10.00am on Monday 6th April 2020 and the returns evaluated. Following this, any subsequent SSQ's returned will be evaluated as soon as practicable in an ongoing rolling programme. The evaluation process may be subject to change during the current Covid-19 situation.

Update 11/03/2021 following a clarification regarding the ESF Accelerate project reference which updated 03S19PO3307 to 03S19P03307 all mentions of the reference in this notice that read as 03S19PO3307 have been updated to 03S19P03307.

Update 01/6/2022 Following the publishing of OJEU Corrigendum 2022/S 105-294599 this update is to confirm that the end date for the DPS being open has now been revised to 31st May 2022 and the estimated total value under the DPS is now £2,152,838.00 GBP

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