In deliveryUnited KingdomServicesFramework agreement£35,000,000
Skills for Growth Light Touch Open Framework
- Published
- Published 16 December 2025
- Deadline
- Closed 13 April 2026
Overview
Devon County Council has awarded a light touch open framework worth an estimated £35 million for skills provision services to 71 providers, including colleges, training organisations, and social enterprises. The framework, awarded on 25 June 2026, supports delivery of Adult Skills Fund and Free Courses for Jobs programmes, Skills Bootcamps, and future skills initiatives across three lots, enabling flexible and responsive skills training aligned with local workforce needs and economic growth.
Key details
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Status
- In delivery
- Category
- Services
- Estimated value
- £35,000,000
- Procedure
- Open
- Contract type
- Framework agreement
- SME suitable
- Yes
- Published
- 16 December 2025
- Questions by
- 30 March 2026
- Deadline
- Closed
Higher education servicesAdult and other education servicesTraining servicesOther community, social and personal services
Award outcome
- Award date
- 25 June 2026
- Contract period
- 12 July 2026 → 12 July 2029
- 3D 360 LIMITED
- ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING LTD
- AIM 2 LEARN LTD
- APRICOT CENTRE CIC
- ASPIRE SPORTING ACADEMY LTD
- BACK TO WORK TRAINING LIMITED
- BLUE SCREEN IT LIMITED
- BOURNEMOUTH CHURCHES HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
- Bicton College (CORNWALL COLLEGE FURTHER EDUCATION CORPORATION )
- Blue Sky Assessing and Consultancy Ltd
- CENIT COLLEGE UK LIMITED
- COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF DEVON
- COMMUNITY TRAINING PORTAL LIMITED
- City College Plymouth
- CoLab Exeter
- Complete Training (Devon) Ltd
- DIGITAL PENINSULA NETWORK LIMITED
- Devon & Cornwall Training Providers Network
- EAT THAT FROG C.I.C.
- EDUC8 TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
- ELLISONS COMMERCIAL TRAINING LIMITED
- EXETER AND NORTH DEVON COLLEGES GROUP
- Engage Train Support Limited
- FUTURE CONNECT TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT LTD
- Gloucestershire College
- HOUSE BUILDER XL LIMITED
- I & F LIMITED
- I CAN DO THAT! COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
- I N F I N I T Y 27 LTD.
- IUNGO SOLUTIONS LIMITED
- JBC SKILLS TRAINING LIMITED
- KIWI & YUZU LTD
- Leep Talent Limited
- M2HSE TRAINING LIMITED
- MINDHUG LTD
- OPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL
- OPTIMISE CYBER SOLUTIONS LTD
- PATRONUS SECURITY UK LIMITED
- PETER SMYTHE TRANSPORT TRAINING LIMITED
- PGL TRAINING (PLUMBING) LIMITED
- PRIMED TALENT LIMITED
- PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
- PROJECT COSMIC
- Plymouth City Council
- SKERN LODGE LIMITED
- SKILLS-UK, EDUCATION & TRAINING LIMITED
- SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC
- SOUTH WEST ASSOCIATION OF TRAINING PROVIDERS LIMITED
- STEMRAN LIMITED
- STEP AHEAD SOCIAL ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
- STUDIO ZAO INNOVATIONS LTD
- Shoots Training Limited
- South Devon College
- TEACH VOCATION GROUP LTD
- TECH EDUCATORS LTD
- TEMPUS TRAINING LIMITED
- THE CONSTRUCTION SKILLS PEOPLE LTD
- THE CURIOUS LOUNGE C.I.C.
- THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED
- THE SKILLS NETWORK LIMITED
- THINK EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
- TWIN TRAINING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- The Skills and Business Hub Limited
- The University of the West of England, Bristol
- WELLBEING WORKSHOPS DEVON CIC
- Weston College
- YOUNG DEVON
- YTKO LIMITED
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Notice history
Every published notice in this contracting process, newest first.
Contract
1 July 2026
View notice ↗Contract Notice
13 March 2026
View notice ↗Prior Information Notice
17 February 2026
View notice ↗Planning Update
17 December 2025
View notice ↗Planning Update
17 December 2025
View notice ↗Prior Information Notice
17 December 2025
View notice ↗Prior Information Notice
16 December 2025
View notice ↗
Contracting authority
Devon County Council
BuyerExeter,, United Kingdom
GB-PPON: PJRC-4623-RJBH
Authority website ↗
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