The Growth Company Expression of Interest: Liverpool City Region (LCR) - Adult Education Budget

The Growth Company will be bidding as a Prime Contractor to deliver devolved AEB in the Liverpool City Region. The AEB is a single budget stream bringing together adult further education (all 19yrs+ provision except apprenticeships/traineeships), community learning, and discretionary learner support. The AEB is intended to fund provision which supports the local labour market and economic development.

In particular, it focuses on ensuring that adults have the core skills that they need to enter and progress in work, including a number of statutory entitlements, those being English, maths and digital skills (from 2020 onwards), as well as first level 2/3 qualifications.

The Growth Company is seeking Expressions of Interest from delivery partners with a high-quality service offer for Liverpool City Region.

To be successful in joining our supply chain for this opportunity, your service offer will be deliver skills support to Liverpool City Region residents including statutory learning entitlements and other learning aims and qualifications on a fully or co-funded basis, learner support and learning support and outcome payments in line with localised funding rules. We are particularly interested in providers that can deliver flexible and innovative provision in the following:

• ESOL
• Digital Skills
• English and Maths Skills
• Provision in priority sectors
• learner support, particularly for priority groups as outlined in the LCR commissioning document

Shortlisted delivery partners will be named in our bid.

The deadline for EOI submissions is 17:00 Friday 23th November 2018.

To apply for the EOI, please download the documentation which contains instructions and information for your submission, including specification of requirements, and the key assessment and evaluation criteria that will be used to assess offers. You are required to make your EOI submission via the GC In-tend e-tendering platform.

To use the Growth Company In-Tend site, you are required to complete a basic registration as a supplier on the In-tend Supplier Platform at the following web address:

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/manchestergrowthcompany/aspx/Home

Please note that all mandatory fields (highlighted in yellow on the In-Tend Portal) must be completed in order to register your organisation. Once registered, you must log into the system, express your interest in the opportunity on In-Tend and automatically download the EOI documentation. Your EOI submission will be made on the In-tend Portal.

If you have any questions about this process, please use the In-Tend platform to correspond with GC. If you require further assistance in respect of the In-Tend portal, please contact the In-Tend support team at support@In-tend.com or telephone on 0845 557 8079 / 0114 407 0065.