Pipeline Framework: Adult Education Budget (AEB) – Market Testing Exercise

A pipeline has been launched for Adult Education Budget (AEB) – Market Testing Exercise.The contract start Date is 26 October 2018. Approach to market date is 07 December 2018.West Midland Combined Authority (WMCA) are seeking to engage with suppliers to conduct a pre-procurement market testing exercise in relation to the procurement of provision funded by its devolved share of the Adult Education Budget (AEB) in the 2019/2020 academic year. The purpose of the market testing exercise will be to research the market in order to assist WMCA in drafting the specification and approach of the wider procurement process. A decision not to participate in the market testing exercise will not preclude you from taking part in the wider tender process.For more information, please register your company on our e-tendering portal (Bravo Solution). Instructions on how to register are located within the links section of this notice. Further key detail around expressing an interest in this Market Warming Exercise are listed below: Portal Website: PIN Title: Adult Education Budget PIN Bravo Solution Project Reference: project_219 – Adult Education Budget (AEB)Bravo Solution Response Reference: pqq_96 – AEB – Market Testing Response Only – NOT EVALUATEDOnce registered on the portal, please access Project_219 on our e-tendering portal and respond to PQQ_96 to submit company details and information. This is not a formal PQQ or expression of interest in a tender, it is to be used purely for suppliers to submit general information to WMCA and to express interest in taking part in a market sounding exercise. Please read the instructions as attached to the pqq_96 within the Bravo Solution Portal before responding to this opportunity. A meet the buyer event will be taking place on the 30th November 2018 at The Studio, Birmingham. To register for this free event please click on the link below:This link is also available within the Links section of this notice.Following the market sounding exercise, feedback from the event will be considered and built into the wider tender exercise, which is expected to be published later this year. Please fill in the Qualification Envelope (Bravo Reference: pqq_96 – AEB – Market Testing Response Only – NOT EVALUATED) by the closing date of 12:00 Noon on 7th December 2018.This is a potential opportunity from the government, and the pipeline gives advance notice of an opportunity that might be offered by the public sector in the future – allowing potential suppliers to plan accordingly. When a public sector organisation publishes a pipeline notice, it does not necessarily mean that an opportunity will be offered in the future.For more information contact: West Midlands Combined Authority, 16 Summer Lane, Birmingham B19 3SD. Email: procurement.team@wmca.org.uk (Rachael Morgan)