Buyer	Department for Education — not a council we hold
Supplier	ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Supplier	GENII ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY TRAINING LIMITED
Supplier	Intertrain UK Ltd
Supplier	LEARNING CURVE GROUP LIMITED
Supplier	New College Durham
Supplier	THE SKILLS NETWORK LIMITED
Supplier	Whitehead Ross Education And Consulting

Skills Bootcamps offer flexible, primarily level 3 - 5 equivalent courses of up to 16 weeks in technical skills which are free to eligible adult learners. They give adults the opportunity to build up in-demand, sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with an employer - supporting adults to move into well-paid jobs and helping employers to fill much-needed vacancies. Unemployed, employed and self-employed adults can be eligible for a Skills Bootcamp; they can be used to support an unemployed person into a job, an employed adult into a different job in another organisation or to gain another role or other responsibilities in the same organisation, or a self-employed adult to gain new opportunities. They also support groups such as those returning to work after a break, ex-veterans and eligible prisoners within 6 months of release. There is a clear expectation that employers are involved in the whole end-to-end delivery of Skills Bootcamps; and where an employer is using a Skills Bootcamp to train up a current employee, they must contribute towards the costs of the Skills Bootcamp. The Dynamic Purchasing System was launched in November 2022. This Contract Award Notice is for the contracts awarded under the Business and Administration category.

Runs	1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jan 2026
OCID	ocds-b5fd17-bdf4fa05-ca95-43a0-8335-383133210baa
Notice	Read it on Contracts Finder

Figures are as published An award value in OCDS may be a framework ceiling rather than a sum anyone expects to spend, so a large figure here is not evidence of a large purchase.