Adult Skills and Education Service: Adult Traineeships

The City Corporation is seeking to appoint a training organisation to provide a wide range of Employment and Skills support services including Employability and functional skills 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.

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) invites Training Organisations able to deliver demonstrably high-quality, highly successful, Adult Traineeship Placements-with wraparound support services.

Key information is as follows:

• maximum duration of a traineeship extended to one year where learners need it
• young people between the age of 19-24 years old with an existing Level 3 qualification become eligible for a traineeship
• a more flexible work placement element with an employer (or multiple employers if needed) for a minimum period of 70 hours
• inclusion of digital skills where needed
• work placements should be a minimum of 2 weeks
• traineeships must be minimum of 6 weeks (maximum 12 months)

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.

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-2018-to2019

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 Adult Traineeship Employer Placement enrolments with wraparound support that may include English mathematics functional skills across entry level to level 2 up to a maximum contract value of £100,000. Learners to be enrolled on the programme before 31st July 2021.

Additional information:

To bid for this opportunity, you must be registered as a supplier on the Capital E Sourcing tendering platform. The homepage for this website can be found here: https://www.capitalesourcing.com/web/login.shtml

Once registered, the tender should be identifiable by the following project code: prj_COL_18368