Apprenticeships Suppliers Framework

Buyer
West Sussex County Council
Value
£50,000,000
Closes
1 December 2026
Where
Chichester, the South East
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

West Sussex County Council is building a framework (approved supplier list) for apprenticeship training providers. They want to onboard multiple training delivery organizations across seven skill areas (health, education, business, digital, creative, engineering, and public services) to deliver apprenticeships over the next few years.

What the buyer wants

• Become an approved apprenticeship training supplier on their framework across one or more of seven defined lots • Deliver high-quality apprenticeship training in your chosen specialism(s) • Be ready to respond to call-off competitions when they start in 2027 to win actual training contracts

Lots

Likely requirements

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This is a framework agreement, not an active contract: call-off competitions do not start until 2027, so there is no immediate work available. Most small training providers will find the application process resource-intensive and may lack Ofsted registration or the financial scale to bid competitively against larger training organizations.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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