✓Tender information last checkedLast checked 9 Oct 2026, 18:07.
Opportunity overview
Heritage construction skills are essential for the repair, maintenance, conservation and retrofit of England’s 5.5 million traditional buildings (built pre-1919), but the industry faces significant skills shortages. Complex and patchy provision of relevant training is a major barrier to closing these skills gaps. At present, we have only limited visibility of provision and uptake for construction qualifications which contain heritage content.
This project would fill this gap in our knowledge and evidence by establishing a baseline dataset of current provision, funding, participation in, and completion rates of relevant training and qualifications. This will provide a detailed picture of where training is taking place, who is offering the training, and how many people are undertaking it as well as a repeatable methodology enabling this project to be repeated in future.
This project will also analyse the data alongside other research to identify where heritage content is included, and where there are gaps in available provision (both geographically and in terms of construction roles), trends over time, and identify qualifications which might be at risk.
With this information we will be able to better target our advocacy and interventions to improve education and training provision in this area and maximise our impact at both a national and regional level. This will directly support our work supporting the supply of heritage construction skills and enabling a greater volume of relevant training.
Classification
CPV73110000 — Research services
CPV73210000 — Research consultancy services
CPV79315000 — Social research services
Lots
Lot 1AED 50k · Source currency differs from tender
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PROCURAAXIS ANALYSIS
ProcuraAxis Analysis
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ANALYSIS PREVIEW
Opportunity intelligence at a glance
Historic England is seeking research services to map training and qualifications containing heritage-construction content in England. The work will establish a baseline dataset on provision, funding, participation and completion; analyse gaps, trends and qualifications at risk; and produce a repeatable methodology. The tender is open, with a stated submission deadline of 6 November 2026 at 09:30 UTC.
Who this may suit
Best suited to research consultancies, social-research organisations and education or skills-data specialists with capability in dataset development, qualifications analysis and heritage-construction training research.
Key points identified
Research scopeMap training and qualifications relevant to heritage construction trades in England, including provision, funding, participation and completion rates.Evidence: Description: 'establishing a baseline dataset of current provision, funding, participation in, and completion rates of relevant training and qualifications.'
Analysis requiredAnalyse heritage content, gaps in provision, trends over time and qualifications that might be at risk.Evidence: Description: 'analyse the data alongside other research to identify where heritage content is included, and where there are gaps... trends over time, and identify qualifications which might be at risk.'
MethodologyProvide a methodology that can be repeated in future.Evidence: Description: 'a repeatable methodology enabling this project to be repeated in future.'
93% approved-analysis confidence4 supplier criteria identified2 risks or unknowns
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Historic England is seeking research services to map training and qualifications containing heritage-construction content in England. The work will establish a baseline dataset on provision, funding, participation and completion; analyse gaps, trends and qualifications at risk; and produce a repeatable methodology. The tender is open, with a stated submission deadline of 6 November 2026 at 09:30 UTC.
Who this may suit
Best suited to research consultancies, social-research organisations and education or skills-data specialists with capability in dataset development, qualifications analysis and heritage-construction training research.
Key deliverables
Baseline dataset covering relevant training and qualifications provision, funding, participation and completion rates
Analysis of heritage-content coverage, geographic and construction-role provision gaps, trends and qualifications at risk
Repeatable methodology for future updates of the research
SUPPLIER REQUIREMENTS
4 criteria identified
Research scope
98% confidence
Map training and qualifications relevant to heritage construction trades in England, including provision, funding, participation and completion rates.
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Description: 'establishing a baseline dataset of current provision, funding, participation in, and completion rates of relevant training and qualifications.'
Analysis required
98% confidence
Analyse heritage content, gaps in provision, trends over time and qualifications that might be at risk.
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Description: 'analyse the data alongside other research to identify where heritage content is included, and where there are gaps... trends over time, and identify qualifications which might be at risk.'
Methodology
96% confidence
Provide a methodology that can be repeated in future.
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Description: 'a repeatable methodology enabling this project to be repeated in future.'
Supplier eligibility requirements
99% confidence
Unknown
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No explicit supplier eligibility, financial, insurance, location, company-size or certification requirements are supplied.
COMMERCIAL AND DELIVERY
Contract intelligence
Commercial
Published maximum value
90% confidence
£50,000 GBP
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Process value_max is 50000 and currency is GBP.
Lot value
90% confidence
50,000 AED
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Lot 1 value_amount is 50000 and currency is AED.
Delivery
Geographic focus
98% confidence
England
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Title and description refer to heritage construction trades and traditional buildings in England.
Contract dates
99% confidence
Unknown
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Contract start and end dates are null.
PROCEDURE
How to respond
Opportunity status
99% confidence
Open
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Display status is 'open' and source status is 'active'.
Procurement method
99% confidence
Open competition; below threshold
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Procurement method is 'open'; procurement method details state 'Below threshold - open competition'.
Submission deadline
99% confidence
6 November 2026, 09:30 UTC
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Process and Lot 1 submission deadline: 2026-11-06T09:30:00+00:00.
RISKS AND UNKNOWNS
Points requiring attention
Conflicting currency data
99% confidence
The published process maximum is £50,000 GBP, while Lot 1 is recorded as 50,000 AED. The applicable contract currency/value cannot be determined from the supplied data.
No evaluation criteria, pricing schedule, contract terms, selection requirements or award criteria are supplied.
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