ID 5828340 - DfE - Skills for Life and Work Programme 2025

Concepts

• belfast
• education and training
• training programme
• skills learning
• life and work programme
• dfe
• secondary education
• youth education
• technical and vocational
• training services

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

The Department for the Economy is seeking tenders for the delivery of the Skills for Life and Work Programme 2025. The programme will support a diverse cohort of young people through a relevant and empowering vocational education and training experience that equips them for progression to higher levels of learning or to employment, according to their own aspirations. The overall aim of the Programme is to ensure continuity of youth vocational education and training provision, contribute to social and economic inclusion, deliver skills learning and achievement, and act as a pathway to any next step. Many participants will enter the Programme with a disability or disabilities, and/or with a complex range of issues and barriers to learning and achievement, including mental wellbeing challenges and mental health difficulties. Additional disability support will be the responsibility of the training provider to deliver or source. Payment for this support will be covered in the funding table and contractual measures will be in place to ensure that this additional funding is ring-fenced and directed towards those young people with disabilities. Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule for full detail on the deliverables of this contract.

Renewal Options

The Award of Contract is anticipated to be August 2025 with the Initial Contract Period of up to two years commencing in September 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter (where ‘up to two years’ pertains to the period of recruitment of participants to the programme). There will be a run-off period following the Initial Contract Period during which all Contract provisions, terms and conditions will continue to apply. This is to accommodate the participant training entitlements set out in the Operational Requirements. Service delivery cannot commence until the first Monday of the September 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter following Contract commencement and the programme will close to new participant entrants after July 2027. There will be an option to extend the Initial Contract Period for a further four one-year periods , and if the Contract is extended the Programme will remain open to new participant entrants during the extension period. Participants recruited during the Initial Contract Period or the extension period will have a training entitlement as set out in the Operational Requirements.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 80210000 - Technical and vocational secondary education services
• 80310000 - Youth education services
• 80500000 - Training services
• 80521000 - Training programme services
• 80530000 - Vocational training services
• 80531000 - Industrial and technical training services
• 80531100 - Industrial training services
• 80531200 - Technical training services
• 80570000 - Personal development training services

Indicators

• Renewals are available.

Other Information

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