# Essential Digital Skills Workforce Development Programme

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [The Education and Training Foundation](/buyers/the-education-and-training-foundation/contract-awards)
- Published: 24 May 2019
- Planned start: 22 July 2019
- Planned end: 23 March 2020
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: e4dbd6ae-02c6-428e-8be4-dc0f26219f92-291565
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-353b507e-8d40-4f10-b813-a24913ba2ca8

## Description

The ETF is seeking to appoint a tenderer / consortium to produce the following elements to enable the upskilling of practitioners in the Further Education \(FE\) sector to deliver the Essential Digital Skills \(EDS\) entitlement from September 2020:- programme design and structure- content, including an interactive self-assessment tool and a Teacher CPD Toolkit- build a series of learning modules- blended learning delivery and Community of practice- stakeholders engagementThis programme will support work by the Department for Education \(DfE\) to introduce an entitlement to Essential Digital Skills training from 2020, similar to those already in place for maths and English\. The entitlement will be funded through the Adult Education Budget \(AEB\)\. Adults will have the opportunity to undertake digital courses based on the new national standards\.

## Related contract awards

- [Award of technical support for the ETF Learners website](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d7167844-f96d-4502-87e1-a76499ab17ef): The Education and Training Foundation
- [Award of the Middle Leaders \(ACE\) programme](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-68896315-915c-4ebf-b80c-d7519280ebc6): The Education and Training Foundation
- [Award of the CPTE in Digital](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8ec3ddbc-8bcc-45ba-8c29-f7ed76c94d52): The Education and Training Foundation

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e4dbd6ae-02c6-428e-8be4-dc0f26219f92-291565)