Clarifications

The courses should be ready-to-go for a buying organisation to access the training, with no tailoring required after the course is purchased. There's a range of learning categories that training can sit under. Developing off the shelf courses that are aimed at certain organisations, such as the NHS, is fine.

These questions are not applicable for the RM6219 Learning and Training Services DPS. A response is not required to Part 3: (Steel) Q147 - Q149, and Part 3: (Past Performance) Q150 - 154.

The Selection Questionnaire will not accept non-UK postcodes. Please enter M4 6JA as a workaround, and a member from our DPS Team will be in contact once you have submitted your application to confirm your postcode.

It is not a requirement of the application for suppliers to publish their equality and diversity policy, but suppliers and should have this in place and ensure subcontractors do also. Here is the government guidance around the Equality Act 2010: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance

Not as part of the DPS application. There is only a pricing matrix to complete for off-the-shelf courses. Bespoke training is priced by suppliers based on a customer's requirements as part of a call-off competition.

The RM6219 Learning and Training Services DPS does not have an FVRA process in place. The RM6348 Adult Skills and Learning DPS does have an FVRA process in place. CCS and our contracted service provider are required to keep supplier financial information confidential. Further guidance on RM6348 can be found under the Adult Skills and Learning DPS section.

The 'Appointed Date' is the date you are appointed onto the DPS agreement. This should be auto populated by the system when a buyer runs a supplier shortlist, so you should be able to leave this blank.

As per the RM6219 How To Apply document, questions 147-149 and 150-154 do not need to be answered.

This DPS has a minimum level of economic and financial standing determined by the score which the credit reference agency - Dun & Bradstreet. For RM6219, a D&B score of 50 or higher is required. HOWEVER, if your score is lower than 50, our team will ask for additional information to assess if you can still be appointed on a case-by-case basis.

There is no minimum or maximum spend for a call off contract under RM6219. There is a maximum spend on the whole DPS that is currently set at £300m, which CCS monitor.

Suppliers can work together with other legal entities to form a Consortium. If you do, we ask the Consortium to choose a lead member who will submit the bid on behalf of the Consortium and you will have to identify what each of the parties is contributing to the bid. You can do this in Your Request to Participate. We recognise that arrangements in relation to Subcontracting and Consortiums may be subject to future change, and may not be finalised until a later date. However, any changes to those arrangements may affect your ability to deliver the RM6219 - Learning and Training Services requirements. You must therefore tell us about any changes to the proposed Subcontracting or to the Consortium. If you do not, you may be excluded from participating in this competition.

Please send the parent company accounts to info@crowncommercial.gov.uk with the CCS commercial agreement number (RM6219) and your organisations name stated in the subject line so this can be directed to the relevant team.

This response supersedes that provided 13/08/2024. UK companies, Societates European (SEs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are required to identify and record the people who own or control their company. Companies, SEs and LLPs are required to keep a PSC register, and must file the PSC information with the central public register at Companies House. See PSC guidance https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-the-people-with-significant-control-requirements-for-companies-and-limited-liability-partnerships . Overseas bidders are required to provide equivalent information. Only information that relates to the persons with powers of representation, decision or control within the meaning of regulation 57(2) can be considered in relation to the mandatory exclusion grounds and other details are requested for information only. There are certain circumstances where it can be a company which is set out in the guidance on the link above, you as the bidder would have to review the PSC guidance and ensure your companies house data aligns. Whoever (person or company) you have listed on companies house is what you should submit as part of your PSC details.

A breach would be any breach, minor or major. There is opportunity for suppliers to demonstrate their "self-cleaning" activities that have taken place to rectify any identified gaps in security measures for example.

Please complete the information to the best of your ability. Pricing matrix documents do not form part of the onboarding evaluation so are not individually checked by our team.

If a customer has used a 'Rapid Award' you will be notified either through the DocuSign that a contract has been awarded or by the customer directly. For a 'Standard Award' this would form part of the customers procurement exercise, so again you would be contacted by the customer directly.

There are various factors that can affect how long the application process will take, but it is a fluid process, where you move automatically from one stage to another as long as there are no risk flags raised with the answers you give or the evidence you upload. We recommend you download the bid pack and read the document titled READ FIRST RM6219 - DPS Needs, as this explains the onboarding process and the mandatory requirements you must meet to be appointed on the DPS.

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The postcode search filter is used by Buyers who are looking for suppliers that can deliver within a certain radius of a specified location. You can only enter one postcode and radius for each filter option within the questionnaire. With multiple locations you are able to use one postcode and set the radius to the United Kingdom to cover a wider area.

These can be an average of all courses in the spreadsheet.