Clarifications

Yes, it is encouraged that suppliers keep their service offerings up-to-date during the lifetime of the DPS to ensure buyers have an accurate list of suppliers based upon the filters they apply.

Yes, all bidders are required to complete and return the Financial Viability Risk Assessment (FVRA) denoted as 'Attachment 3a' in the Bid Pack. Not all companies will have a parent or an ultimate parent. Therefore, if this does not apply to your organisation, you should proceed by entering your organisations details. This is included as the FVRA is a template which can be used by a vast array of organisations across CCS as an organisation, it has not been made specifically for this commercial agreement. If you do not believe something applies and Attachment 3 nor does the 'Bidder Instructions' tab within Attachment 3a expressly mandate the input of data, it would be assumed you can move on from this. Note: the FVRA Tool has an inbuilt checker which should indicate where data is missing or incomplete.

Please attach the completed FVRA to 3.2.1.

The document titled 'RM6348 - Adult Skills DPS Questionnaire.pdf' is a PDF copy of the DPS Questionnaire suppliers will work through as part of their application to be appointed to the DPS. This has been provided so that suppliers can view the information in one document rather than navigating the SRS system to understand what is required ahead of starting the application process. The document titled 'RM6348 - Attachment 6 - Standard Selection Questionnaire v1.0.pdf' is for information only for bidders to view in advance of completing the Selection Questionnaire. "Part 3" of the DPS Questionnaire is where the FVRA is referenced and questions / uploads are required. Part 3 refers to 'financial standing and technical capacity'. Starting on page 127 of the 'RM6348 - Adult Skills DPS Questionnaire.pdf' document is where this is referenced, at 3.2.1.

Please contact NQC using either the telephone number or the "contact us" facility at the foot of the Supplier Registration Service (SRS). As a Category Team we do not have the technical expertise to advise, however NQC build and administrate the platform on our behalf so are better placed to advise and support.

From the information provided, it would be assumed that you should complete tab '1.1b Lead Financial Input' given you have stated you are a Not-for-Profit organisation. Not all the fields in the tab will be relevant to every organisation. The FVRA Tool is generic in design to encapsulate our wide range or agreements at CCS. Where you do not have information to insert against a given field, please leave this blank and complete the FVRA Tool as accurate and fully as possible.

Please contact NQC using either the telephone number or the "contact us" facility at the foot of the Supplier Registration Service (SRS). As a Category Team we do not have the technical expertise to advise, however NQC build and administrate the platform on our behalf so are better placed to advise and support.

CRPs are required, but only if a supplier has the have capacity to deliver contracts worth over £5,000,000 (5 million) per annum.

Yes, part 3.9.2 has the option for suppliers to insert a link or upload a document to provide CRPs.

Please contact NQC using either the telephone number or the "contact us" facility at the foot of the Supplier Registration Service (SRS). As a Category Team we do not have the technical expertise to advise, however NQC build and administrate the platform on our behalf so are better placed to advise and support.

1. The DPS has been designed to support the provision of Learning and Skills requirements that can be utilised by Mayoral Combined Authorities, Devolved Administrations, Local Authorities, Educational Institutions and Central Government Departments. The Adult Skills and Learning DPS shall incorporate all requirements across adult skills training programmes and funding streams within the scope of supporting adults to train, retrain and up-skill throughout their lifetime, including but not limited to: ●Post-16 training ●Post-19 training ●Adult Skills Fund ●UK Shared Prosperity Fund ●Multiply ●+ Any future iterations of existing funding types ●+ Any future funding types The agreement will offer a range of national and regional providers to support UK public sector bodies to run procurements for Learning and Skills provisions. However, the apprenticeship levy training is not within scope of this DPS. The percentage of England's commissioning bodies which we expect to sign up --- 2. I will share the recording link ASAP once permitted to do so.

There are no restrictions on the types of courses that can be offered. Although, when a buyer outlines what they want as part of their call off contract, they may ask for specific types of courses, for example face-to-face, online.

I have investigated and tested this by downloading the Bid Pack and opening Attachment 4b. I note that the "your response" cell on Line 12 is a free text box in Attachment 4b. I have also looked at Attachment 4a which does have a drop down box function on Line 12, but this appears to be functioning correctly. Please try downloading the Bid Pack again and accessing this document. If the issue persists, please check you have macros enabled and failing that please let us know directly so we can support with this however possible.

Should the change from a Limited Company to a Community Interest Company limited by shares stand to impact the DUNS and / or Company Number, the advice would be to wait for this to be completed and finalised to ensure the financial viability risk assessment can be conducted accordingly against the correct entity.

Please contact NQC using either the telephone number or the "contact us" facility at the foot of the Supplier Registration Service (SRS). As a Category Team we do not have sight of this level of information. NQC have sight of all activity and will be able to confirm whether the SQ you are answering is related to RM6348 and allow you to proceed.

If the requirement was to support members of the general public with L&M development then yes, but if you are thinking about L&M of a public sector employee then no. Please see RM6219 - Learning & Training Services DPS for this.

Apologies, this was a due to a technical issue, the problem has now been resolved, so the 'Access as a Supplier' should now be working.

1.1.1 - This is just a reference for your application - Anything that helps identifying it for you. 1.1.2 - Adult Skills and Learning DPS

The link appears to be working, please try the following: https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/dps/asl

The DPS application is split into three parts, Part 1 & 2 is the Standard SQ and Part 3 is the DPSQ. You can view the complete questionnaire (parts 1, 2 and 3) within Attachment 6 of the bid pack.