Communities and Skills Leadership Programme

The Greater London Authority (GLA) is seeking to award a contract to a provider to deliver its Communities and Skills Leadership Programme Training, with a particular focus on career progression for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic, and Disabled employees. The successful provider will be required to design, deliver and evaluate the following elements:

The Existing Leaders programme (ELP)- to provide an intensive leadership bootcamp in order to create a baseline of leadership expertise enabling existing leaders have an objective insight into their leadership development strengths and challenges.

The Future Leadership Development (FLD) - a 12 month Programme enabling future leaders understand their development needs, role model leadership behaviours from the GLA competency framework. The primary focus of the programme will be on developing staff that fall within Global majority and Disabled groups. The successful provider must : Be a London Living Wage employer

Demonstrate at least two years' experience delivering leadership programmes

Provide training within the M25 as well as have access to training venues/facilities within M25.

Be an organisation or consortia whose programme delivery team make-up reflects London's diversity and has lived in experience of the programme participants including representation from global majority and disabilities.

The contract will be for 1 year with an option to extend for 1 year +1 year.

Full details will be provided in the specification and invitation to tender (ITT) documents.

Please see important dates for the tender process below: Week ending 03/11/2023 Publish ITT

Week ending 24/11/2023 Deadline for submission of tenders 12:00 Noon

18th - 19th December 2023 Supplier Clarification Meetings

The tender will be managed on TfL's e-tendering platform SAP ARIBA. Tender submission and any tender clarification queries must be submitted via this platform.

In order to receive access to the live tender ITT documentation, you must be registered on the SAP Ariba platform via the address indicated:https://s1-eu.ariba.com/Sourcing/Main/ad/selfRegistration?realm=TfL

The project reference is GLA 82286. All messages and tender submissions should be submitted via this platform. Once registered, please email: Bolajidawodu@tfl.gov.uk to complete the registration process and gain access to the tender documentation. Please note, you will not be able to access the tender documentation unless your registration is complete. This should be completed as soon as possible to avoid delays.

If you need any support in registering for SAP Ariba, please contact our SAP Ariba Supplier enablement team at: ariba_supplier_enablement@tfl.gov.uk Any questions or issues please contact: Mo Dawodu -- Bolajidawodu@tfl.gov.uk

Thank you for your time and we look forward to receiving submissions in due course, should training providers wish to bid for this opportunity.