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CO6118 Ideas Store Learning Hub

Tower Hamlets · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

Idea Store Learning, the community adult learning provision for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is tasked with enabling residents to develop the skills they need to become active citizens, progress in work and express themselves across different media. More than 3000 local residents enrol on over 6000 course places to develop their work and life prospects. Courses ranging from ESOL and maths to visual and performing arts enable learners to progress into employment, enhance their work skills, communicate more effectively, improve their health and wellbeing, support their children’s learning and create stronger, connected communities. Digital skills are integral to the provision with digital communication and teaching embedded across all courses. Specific digital skills courses from beginner to advanced form an essential growing part of the provision as well as the council’s Digital Inclusion Strategy. The current digital skills infrastructure needs updating to meet the demands of today’s and tomorrow’s world. The existing set up limits the use and teaching of cloud-based technologies including Microsoft 365. Digital security concerns require the learning environment to be separate from the Council’s corporate network. Consequently, learners have no automated institutional email address and/or accounts, and limited means of sharing work, communicating digitally in a secure manner, or easy access to a VLE.

Classification

  • CPV48000000 — Software package and information systems
  • CPV72000000 — IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
CO6118
Status
planning
Above Threshold
No
Main Procurement Category
services

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes

Contract period

Ends
31 Dec 2027, 23:59
Starts
1 Jan 2026, 00:00

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKI
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
72000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Entry 2
Id
48000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Software package and information systems

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
020683-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
13 May 2025, 08:46

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
3 Jun 2025, 00:59
Description
Idea Store Learning, the community adult learning provision for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is tasked with enabling residents to develop the skills they need to become active citizens, progress in work and express themselves across different media. The current digital skills infrastructure needs updating to meet the demands of today’s and tomorrow’s world. Idea Store Learning are interested in hearing from third party providers to set up and run the below proposed changes: • All Idea Store Learners have a Tower Hamlets’ Idea Store Learning email and access/licence to Microsoft 365 - including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, OneNote and other key apps • Digital skills learners have access to the above apps within a learning environment and as desktop apps. • All learners to share files and collaborate in the usual cloud-based manner • All learners use Teams for Education as the provision’s VLE • All learners able to use Co-pilot in line with data-protection policies • All learners able to use and learn about key AI tools as ChatGPT and other LLMs • Future-proofed digital skills provision so it can respond to changes in workplace and everyday practices and run a varied, modern and skills-based curriculum – including developing a process of updating digital software to ensure the curriculum is agile and responsive to a changing world • Access and safeguarding arrangements support an inclusive learning environment • A single sign-on process ensures learner accounts are set up at enrolment • Digitally secure sign-on processes • Ongoing support and management to ensure learners and tutors receive timely help and data security is maintained 2nd June 2025 Interested parties to submit an outline of experience in this area and a brief account of the steps they would take to institute the proposed changes W/B 9th June 2025 Selected providers will be invited to one-one meetings where the delivery model proposals can be assessed

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PQBL-2673-MVYG
Name
Tower Hamlets

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKI42
Country
GB
Locality
London
Postal Code
E1 1BJ
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
New Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road London

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Identifier

Id
PQBL-2673-MVYG
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Name
Ms Morgan Hughes
Telephone
+44 2073644099

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · London · UKI42 · E1 1BJ · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKI · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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  1. ocds-h6vhtk-05118d-2025-05-13T08:46:48+01:00Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·