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Independent Evaluator Requirements •Experience of working with major public or charitable sector funders, funded organisations, and other stakeholders, and managing the relationship between them •Knowledge of a full range of evaluation techniques, including quantitative and qualitative approaches and both short-term and long-term assessment techniques and the ability to provide counter-factual evidence •Experience of data collection, data analysis and reporting •Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal •An understanding of the issues and challenges faced by the construction sector •Experience of working in an inclusive manner •A strong awareness and understanding of, and a commitment to, ethics in evaluation and research •Ability to be responsive and flexible in order to achieve the outcomes required by CITB Please see Brief for more details Additional information: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

NOTE: This notice was updated on 06 May 2022 for the following reason: Deadline extended to take into account bank holiday(CITB are investing £30,000 in an innovative commission to provide virtual tasters in construction. The successful supplier will need to provide a minimum of 15% match-funding. CITB defines a taster as: "short-duration insight into a construction working environment or particular career path(s), delivered physically or virtually. Examples of tasters include but are not limited to: •A 'day in the life' of presentation, giving an in-depth account of a particular role •Site tours •Open Days •Work-shadowing" The provider must ensure virtual tasters are of a standard and quality that positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and are engaging and informative to support individuals to make good career choices. Primarily the supplier will need to work in close collaboration with CITB's commissioned Onsite Experience Hubs to ensure the virtual tasters are aligned to their needs, and the outputs from this commission can be successfully incorporated into the Onsite Experience programme (please see Annex A for more information on CITB's Onsite Experience Commission). The scope of this commission has purposely been kept relatively broad to enable innovation. Any specific requirements are detailed in the following sections, which a supplier will be expected to meet. This commission will run for an initial 12-month period to develop and launch the virtual construction tasters with the expectation that the supplier will include monitoring for an additional 12 months (minimum) post launch within their tender. Furthermore, the supplier will need to provide evidence of sustainability to ensure the virtual tasters can be rolled-out to a wider audience within the construction industry. They will also need to ensure there is an appropriate mechanism in place to monitor their reach and an embedded exit survey to monitor outcomes.) Additional information: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

CITB are investing £30,000 in an innovative commission to provide virtual tasters in construction. The successful supplier will need to provide a minimum of 15% match-funding. CITB defines a taster as: "short-duration insight into a construction working environment or particular career path(s), delivered physically or virtually. Examples of tasters include but are not limited to: •A 'day in the life' of presentation, giving an in-depth account of a particular role •Site tours •Open Days •Work-shadowing" The provider must ensure virtual tasters are of a standard and quality that positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and are engaging and informative to support individuals to make good career choices. Primarily the supplier will need to work in close collaboration with CITB's commissioned Onsite Experience Hubs to ensure the virtual tasters are aligned to their needs, and the outputs from this commission can be successfully incorporated into the Onsite Experience programme (please see Annex A for more information on CITB's Onsite Experience Commission). The scope of this commission has purposely been kept relatively broad to enable innovation. Any specific requirements are detailed in the following sections, which a supplier will be expected to meet. This commission will run for an initial 12-month period to develop and launch the virtual construction tasters with the expectation that the supplier will include monitoring for an additional 12 months (minimum) post launch within their tender. Furthermore, the supplier will need to provide evidence of sustainability to ensure the virtual tasters can be rolled-out to a wider audience within the construction industry. They will also need to ensure there is an appropriate mechanism in place to monitor their reach and an embedded exit survey to monitor outcomes. Additional information: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

This tender is for the review of the bank of assessment questions from which the ECITB online test system selects questions at random to create the online knowledge tests for ECITB Level 3 Diploma in Project Controls Practice and Techniques (RQF). As part of the ECITB's commitment to continual improvement, to ensure we continue to meet the specific criteria and quality standards for regulatory bodies and to continue to meet the needs of industry, we periodically review our qualifications and/or assessments.

CITB wishes to procure a supplier who will provide a mystery shopping contract covering the whole of the UK and Northern Ireland ensuring that there are sufficient adequately trained and briefed mystery shoppers in all geographical areas. The Contract will be awarded for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 12 months subject to review.

CITB has a commercial need to better support individuals when entering into construction jobs to ensure sustained employment in the industry. Previous commissions have shown that new entrants require more assistance in the workplace than just construction training. This tender is looking to commission this additional support for the first year of the new entrants' journey.

CITB wishes to invite tenders for the appointment of an external service provider to manage and operate the following services at designated locations within their estate. The tender will be split into Lots as below. Bidders will be able to bid on one or more Lots. Lot 1 - Catering inc. Hospitality, Retail and Vending 1.1 - National Construction College (East), Bircham Newton , Kings Lyn, Norfolk, PE31 6RH 1.2 - National Construction College (South), Manor Road, Erith, Kent, DA8 2AD 1.3 - National Construction College (Scotland), 4 Fountain Avenue Estate, Inchinnan, Renfrew, PA4 9RQ Lot 2 - Cleaning 2.1 - National Construction College (East), Bircham Newton , Kings Lyn, Norfolk, PE31 6RH 2.2 - National Construction College (South), Manor Road, Erith, Kent, DA8 2AD 2.3 - National Construction College (Scotland), 4 Fountain Avenue Estate, Inchinnan, Renfrew, PA4 9RQ

CITB wishes to invite tenders for the appointment of an external service provider to manage and operate the following services at designated locations within their estate. The tender will be split into Lots as below. Bidders will be able to bid on one or more Lots. Lot 1 - Catering inc. Hospitality, Retail and Vending 1.1 – National Construction College (East), Bircham Newton , Kings Lyn, Norfolk, PE31 6RH 1.2 - National Construction College (South), Manor Road, Erith, Kent, DA8 2AD 1.3 - National Construction College (Scotland), 4 Fountain Avenue Estate, Inchinnan, Renfrew, PA4 9RQ Lot 2 - Cleaning 2.1 – National Construction College (East), Bircham Newton , Kings Lyn, Norfolk, PE31 6RH 2.2 - National Construction College (South), Manor Road, Erith, Kent, DA8 2AD 2.3 - National Construction College (Scotland), 4 Fountain Avenue Estate, Inchinnan, Renfrew, PA4 9RQ

CITB requires the re-roofing of Building 115, 75, 142, 127, 122, 26,49 and the Bus Bay as laid out for Building 115 below. The remaining buildings specification (75,142,127,122,26,49 and the bus bay) are detailed in the attached IKO report (Annex A). All buildings are to encapsulate parapets new RWGs and Freestanding Guard Rails, and the successful supplier should ensure that their solution is as per IKO or equivalent specification. CITB Building 115 at Bircham Newton, Norfolk, PE31 6RH has 3 separate roofs and CITB require costings for each individual roof to be replaced or overlayed (depending on the condition) and a price for completing all 3. The solution should provide a fully insulated solution in felt encapsulating the parapets with up to a 30-year guarantee with a system that can help the building achieve net zero.

CITB requires the re-roofing of Building 115, 75, 142, 127, 122, 26,49 and the Bus Bay as laid out for Building 115 below. The remaining buildings specification (75,142,127,122,26,49 and the bus bay) are detailed in the attached IKO report (Annex A). All buildings are to encapsulate parapets new RWGs and Freestanding Guard Rails, and the successful supplier should ensure that their solution is as per IKO or equivalent specification. CITB Building 115 at Bircham Newton, Norfolk, PE31 6RH has 3 separate roofs and CITB require costings for each individual roof to be replaced or overlayed (depending on the condition) and a price for completing all 3. The solution should provide a fully insulated solution in felt encapsulating the parapets with up to a 30-year guarantee with a system that can help the building achieve net zero.

CITB are inviting bids from the construction industry to create a model of local, onsite work experience and training to help address the recruitment and skills challenges facing the sector in the Thames Valley Berkshire and London LEP areas. CITB have allocated £1.2 million to establish Onsite Experience hubs within these two LEP areas (£600,000 in each area). The primary objective of this commission is to deliver 'onsite experiences' to enable individuals to become employment and site-ready, before progressing at least 50% of these people into sustained employment for a minimum of three months. Research tells us that in order to get a new recruit to a desired initial standard of site-readiness, employers often need to devote significant time and resource to achieving this, regardless of the recruit's entry route into the sector or previous experience. Onsite Experience hubs will equip individuals to become employment and site-ready to employer specifications, before they are recruited, providing candidates with support including employability training, short duration construction training, PPE, CSCS cards and work experience, and therefore reducing the resource burden and risk for recruiting businesses. This commission addresses the challenge by funding pre-employment training, and an onsite experience which can be treated as a work trial by the employer, prior to committing to employing a new recruit. An online briefing and supplier engagement event will be hosted by the CITB Commissioner (via MS Teams) on Monday 6th June 2022, 11am to 12:30pm. To join this event, please use the following link on the above date and time: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_NWQzMzM5YWUtNDYyMC00ZTI5LWIwMzMtNjY4MmYyNGMwZThk@thread.v2/0?context={"Tid":"e32fcdb1-bebe-44eb-be1c-ef4700387163","Oid":"ae3416f1-9d4e-413c-a32e-a8218a113a62","IsBroadcastMeeting":true}&btype=a&role=a Interested suppliers will need to access the opportunity on Delta (they may need to register): https://www.delta-esourcing.com/

The successful provider (in each of the two targeted LEP areas) will establish physical and/or virtual infrastructure to enable delivery of two new CITB Onsite Experience hubs. The provider will engage and partner with all key stakeholders concerned with the pre-employment training, onsite work experience and recruitment of people seeking a construction career within the target areas in order to fill construction sector vacancies in-scope to CITB.

Following our previous Market Engagement notice CITB is now ready to proceed with the England Construction Opportunities tender. CITB requires several suppliers to further develop construction employment opportunities in England through a new commission called, the England Construction Opportunities (ECO), that supports new entrants into the construction industry. The budget for this commission is £1.82m over 3 years with no capital expenditure.   The specific criteria in the tender will focus on the support provided in the workplace through job coaching, mentoring, employer engagement, peer and buddy systems or other appropriate support measures to improve the quality and sustainability of work outcomes. This support will be reviewed at 3 and 6 months sustained employment outputs with destination tracking of individuals through a 12-month cycle to evidence outcomes of the support.   The commission will require providers to have in place pre-existing relationships with other agencies to manage the training and development required for an individual to become employment and site ready to enter a construction job.  The commission is looking to award to a mix of providers; 2-3 small providers and 3-4 larger providers.     An introductory webinar to the tender and application process will be held, details below and on our website at www.citb.co.uk. Tuesday 7th June at 11:00 hours Please use this URL to access the webinar: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjIzNzRmYWMtMzM1Yy00ZGE4LWFhNzEtMTBhZTc3NTE1Mzdl@thread.v2/0?context={"Tid":"e32fcdb1-bebe-44eb-be1c-ef4700387163","Oid":"c66df12a-cd66-465d-af9e-d3a806ab4f5d","IsBroadcastMeeting":true}&btype=a&role=a  

CITB requires several suppliers to further develop construction employment opportunities in England through a new commission. The specific criteria in the tender will focus on the support provided in the workplace through job coaching, mentoring, employer engagement, peer and buddy systems or other appropriate support measures to improve the quality and sustainability of work outcomes.   The commission will require providers to have in place pre-existing relationships with other agencies to manage the training and development required for an individual to become employment and site ready to enter a construction job.   

This contract relates to the delivery of an ECITB sponsored ChPP cohort commencing in August 2022. The services required will result in the successful attainment of the ChPP standard for 15 learners. This will be achieved through an established programme to support attainment of the ChPP standard.

A commission in Scotland to provide support to individuals entering the construction workforce to overcome any initial challenges they may face and to provide ongoing in-work support over the duration of the commission to improve the quality and longevity of work outcomes for participants.

CITB requires a sole provider with demonstrable knowledge, insight, and experience of the scaffolding sector along with an excellent industry network that provides full GB coverage to lead and manage this programme. The successful provider will work with their network in the relevant geographical areas with a need for additional scaffolding instructors, and onboard the relevant scaffolding training centres to recruit, train and retain full time instructors.

CITB requires a sole provider with demonstrable knowledge, insight, and experience of the scaffolding sector along with an excellent industry network that provides full GB coverage to lead and manage this programme. The successful provider will work with their network in the relevant geographical areas with a need for additional scaffolding instructors, and onboard the relevant scaffolding training centres to recruit, train and retain full time instructors.

CITB are looking to appoint a media buying and strategy agency that will support various campaigns throughout each year. CITB's expected annual media budget is 500k per annum, the majority of campaigns will have spend values of £50k, we are looking to secure an agency who are used to working with similar budgets and can focus on maximising our return on investment