Following a competitive procurement process
using GMCA’s Education Work and Skills Flexible Procurement
System, GMCA wishes to award the following contracts:
Lot 1 - Upskilling unemployed residents and residents who are
economically inactive into employment:
Babington Group Ltd - £650,088.00
Back 2 Work Complete Training - £1,979,980.20
Bright Direction Training - £991,846.80
Get SET Academy - £521,690.00
Gloucestershire College - £745,998.00
Mantra Learning Ltd - £3,148,193.58
Realise Learning & Employment Ltd - £1,040,232.12
Rochdale Training - £412,162.80
Seetec Business College - £1,262,006.90
Standguide Limited - £1,149,951.28
The Constructions Skills People Ltd - £771,686.00
The Growth Company - £3,014,976.97
Total People Ltd - £893,322.50
Workers' Educational Association - £1,416,909.12
Lot 2 - Upskilling / reskilling employed residents:
Acorn Training - £541,810.00
Babington Group Ltd - £209,783.00
DMR Training and Consultancy Ltd - £254,227.00
Mantra Learning Ltd - £1,655,377.67
Rochdale Training - £279,724.40
The Growth Company Limited - £477,810.00
The intent of the GM devolved AEB provision is to support:
• The priorities of the Greater Manchester Strategy 2021
– 2031 good lives for all:
Greater Manchester is a great place to grow up, get on and grow
old; a great place to invest, do business, visit and study to
become:
o A greener Greater Manchester: responding to the climate
emergency
o A fairer Greater Manchester: addressing inequalities and
improving wellbeing for all
o A more prosperous Greater Manchester: driving local and UK
growth.
• Unemployed residents, including those furthest away from the
labour market and residents who are economically inactive with the
potential of re-entering the workplace, to develop the essential
skills and occupational competences needed to progress further in
learning, work or careers, on courses aligned with local employer
needs.
• Employed residents, to improve their skills and be more
productive, or retrain to find a better job supporting in-work
progression for adults into higher level careers, adapting to
changing employer needs.
• Occupational skills gaps to support our business needs,
providing employers with a locally skilled workforce.
Further information on the scope of the procurement can be found in
the embedded specification attached.