0361 PGCE Masters Credits Programme.
Contract award notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
Essex County Council
PO Box 4, County Hall, Market Road
For the attention of: Andrew Beaver
CM1 1JZ Chelmsford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 8457430430
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.essex.gov.uk
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 24: Education and vocational education services
NUTS code UKH3
EES for Schools / Essex Teacher Training will be responsible for the following:
- Training to support the award of QTS;
- Organisation of trainees into cohorts;
- Scheduling the programme and booking of training venues in various locations across the county;
- Quality Assurance of SCITT and School direct partners with respect to the award of QTS;
- Promoting NQT and RQT development opportunities through our CPD portal.
Prospective bidders would be strongly advised to consider the scalability of the programme, should the buy in from trainees be particularly high, and the viability of small numbers. The consideration of a combined primary and secondary training programme / route and blended learning solutions may be worthwhile.
Essex Teacher Training requires an arrangement that will enable trainees to achieve a minimum of 60 credits at Level 7 and / or a PGCE for each academic year from September 2016, with the opportunity to complete a full Masters Degree during the early stage of their teaching career. Precise details will depend on individual University recommendations but it is our expectation that they would include a focus on pedagogy, action research and preparation for further study along with an RPL element
1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to [email protected], asking to be invited to this event and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details.
2. If you have more than 1 registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage.If you are not registered in Ariba at all, go to http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full, and follow the instructions to register then follow steps 1 and 2 above. (Please Note: 35 % completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100 % completion.)
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Section IV: Procedure
1. Price. Weighting 70
2. Quality. Weighting 30
Contract notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2016/S 013-018878 of 20.1.2016
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 0361Number of offers received by electronic means: 2
University of Derby
Kedleston Road
DE22 1GB Derby
UNITED KINGDOM
Value: 250 000 GBP
Section VI: Complementary information
The supplier portal will be used throughout the procurement process, and all communications with Essex County Council relating to this procurement exercise must be via the supplier portal. The supplier portal has instructions on how to use the system and access the information as well as a helpdesk to assist Bidders.
Essex County Council reserves the right to amend timescales, and change the evaluation criteria if there are genuine omissions or mistakes. Essex County Council reserves the right to cancel the procurement exercise and/or not to award all or part of a contract. Essex County Council will not be responsible for any costs incurred by suppliers in relation to this procurement exercise.
Suppliers are advised that Essex County Council is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR). If a supplier considers that any of the information supplied as part of this procurement exercise should not be disclosed because of its commercial sensitivity, confidentiality or otherwise, it must, when providing this information, clearly identify the specific information it does not wish to be disclosed and clearly specify the reasons for its sensitivity.
Essex County Council shall take such statements into consideration in the event that it receives a request pursuant to FOIA or EIR which relates to the information provided by a Supplier. However, if the information is requested Essex County Council may be obliged under FOIA and/or EIR to disclose such information, irrespective of the supplier's wishes. Please note that it is not sufficient to include a statement of confidentiality encompassing all the information provided in the response.
Suppliers Instructions - How to Express Interest in this Tender:
Potential Tenderers must contact ECC to request to be invited to this tender round by following these instructions:
1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to [email protected] asking to be invited to this event and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details.
2. If you have more than 1 registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage.If you are not registered in Ariba at all, go to http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full and follow the instructions to register then follow steps 1 and 2 above. (Please Note: 35 % completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100 % completion.)
Once you have been invited to the project all communication will need to be via the project message board.