Education and training services

Fife Council is seeking to establish DPS for the supply of training, as learning and development is critical to ensure our workforce has the opportunity to train and develop their current knowledge along with the ability to work towards/continue with any work-related qualifications. Fife Council will procure any training via this DPS. Each purchase will be determined by a mini-competition under the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS).

This DPS will replace the current route to market via the open learning and development framework. (owned by Edinburgh City Council).

This DPS falls under the scope of the new Light Touch Regime referenced within the Public Contract (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

The DPS will consist of 17 lots, details of which are in the list below. There will be an opportunity at a later date to include additional courses should the Council require more diversity.

Lot 1: Administration and Business Support (including):

— customer service,

— induction,

— personal effectiveness,

— policies and procedures.

Lot 2: Community learning and development (CLD);

Lot 3: Community safety and public protection;

Lot 4: Disabilities:

— quality impact assessment,

— see hear training;

Lot 5: Driving:

— young drivers,

— advanced driving,

— large goods vehicles,

— minibuses reversing assistant,

— certificate of professional competence (CPC);

Lot 6: Health and social care:

— early years and childcare,

— essential learning for care (skills, knowledge, codes of practice),

— health and well-being (mindfulness, personal resilience, mental health awareness),

— looked after children (LAC),

— social care (moving and handling, personal safety, first aid, dementia, food hygiene, infection control, prevention and management of aggression and violence, medication, stroke awareness, falls prevention, end of life care),

— social work;

Lot 7: Finance;

Lot 8: Health and safety;

Lot 9: Housing;

Lot 10: Information and communication technology (ICT):

— IT literacy,

— basic IT skills,

— applications training,

— advanced ICT;

Lot 11: Leadership and management:

— coaching and mentoring,

— facilitation,

— simulation (role play, practice sessions),

— mediation skills,

— business continuity (including planning and exercises);

Lot 12: Learning and teaching:

— additional support for learning (ASL),

— learning and teaching in schools,

— teacher CPD;

Lot 13: Libraries;

Lot 14: Personal skills development;

Lot 15: Programme and change management:

— project management,

— Prince 2;

Lot 16: Parks and greenspace, roads and transport:

— plant and machinery (abrasive wheels, excavators, grass cutting tools),

— gardening;

Lot 17: eLearning:

— content management provision,

— design of bespoke eLearning modules;

Lot 18: Further and higher education qualifications

— SVQs, HNCs, degrees, post graduate awards.