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Published 22 Jul 2025, 15:23 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Virtual School Enrichment Training FCA

Official notice

Authority: Birmingham City Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServicesLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: West Midlands (UKG31)
Planned pipeline value£600,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 8 Sept 2025from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 2 yrsends 16 Nov 2027 · up to 17 Nov 2029 with extensions · starts 17 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Birmingham City Council (BCC) is undertaking a Soft Market Testing exercise to explore the potential procurement of a flexible contracting agreement for training services for Birmingham Virtual School (BVS). This exercise is purely exploratory and intended to help the Council assess the viability and scope of a future procurement. Participation in this process is entirely voluntary and will not affect your eligibility to take part in any subsequent procurement activity.

The Training opportunity will be broken into 3 lots based on the target audience so that the services can be supplied under more than one contract.

Lot 1: Training for staff at educational establishments and other professionals

Lot 2: Training for Social Care Professionals

Lot 3: Training for Parents, Carers and Family Members

Providers can bid for multiple lots.

CPV: Specialist training services · Training services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 17 Nov 2025

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 17 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2027 (2 yrs) · up to 17 Nov 2029 with extensions
Delivery: West MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
80500000 Training services80510000 Specialist training services

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Virtual School Enrichment Training FCA” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 Jul 2025, 15:23 BST
Last source update
5 Aug 2025, 13:23 BST
Authority reference
P0886 SMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-046110
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Specialist training servicesTraining services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG31)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0563fa Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

22 Jul 2025 → 17 Nov 2025 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 15:23 BST
  2. Latest notice published
    5 Aug 2025, 13:23 BST
  3. Market engagement
    18 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST

    Interested providers should complete the soft market testing questionnaire via the link in the information document available on the Council's e-tendering portal www.in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc ↗

    Reference Number P0886 SMT

  4. Tender notice expected
    8 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
  5. Contract starts346 days ago
    17 Nov 2025

Notice history

6 events · 6 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 Jul 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 15:23 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 15:26 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 15:27 BST
    UK2
  4. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 15:30 BST
    UK2
  5. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 15:31 BST
    UK2
  6. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Aug 2025, 13:23 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Engagement deadline extended

Routine re-releases (6)
  • 2025-07: 3 releases · 22 Jul 2025, 22 Jul 2025

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Birmingham City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PCJJ-4826-QMLZ Council House, 1 Victoria Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 1BBContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (6)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure