The Welsh Government wishes to procure a package of internationally recognised expert advisory services to improve education and reduce the impact of poverty on educational attainment.
This must include:
a pre-existing off-the-shelf online toolkit, informed by a robust evidence base from high quality and internationally recognised research and evaluation of effective teaching practice;
commitment to develop the evidence and case studies to inform a contextualised resource specifically for educators in Wales, drawing on existing effective practice;
providing access to established international and UK networks of educators and researchers to collaborate on improving education and reducing the impact of poverty on educational attainment; and
specific time commitments to support Welsh policy development drawing on internationally recognised organisational expertise.
Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh GovernmentWalesWAC-251892
The Welsh Government are publishing this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to notify suppliers of our intentions to update and re-tender the current Digital Inclusion contract. Details of the new contract will be contained in the tender documentation and we envisage the procurement will be conducted in Summer 2025 with the contract commencing Autumn 2025.
Digital exclusion continues to be a significant issue throughout the UK. The acceleration of transitioning services to online digital only access has meant that it is now essential to have some level of digital skills to be included in today’s society. Any barrier to digital connectivity, access and/or digital skills can mean someone is disadvantaged financially, socially and in respect of their wider well-being.
Digital Communities Wales: Digital Confidence, Health and Well-being (DCW), the Welsh Government funded £2million per annum flagship digital inclusion programme ends on 30 September 2025. The DCW programme has worked with organisations from all sectors that support digitally excluded people, providing training and support to front line staff and volunteers to help them develop the basic digital skills of citizens.
The focus of the new contract will be on delivery of a nationally delivered programme of activity to support digital inclusion work in Wales including developing a national inclusion advice service and undertaking mapping of digital inclusion provision across Wales.
It is envisaged that this national programme of activity would include the following elements:
• Mapping of digital inclusion provision throughout Wales
• Provision of digital inclusion advice, via regional and thematic skills advisers
• Creation and updating of digital inclusion skills resources
• Supporting bringing public and private sector stakeholders together to share knowledge and best practice and provide strategic leadership – reflecting the fact that digital inclusion is not owned by any one sector or organisation but is everyone’s business
The contract will recognise that becoming digitally included is a continuous process requiring ongoing support, which can take a long time to go from a first-time user to a position where one is able to demonstrate all five basic digital skills from the Essential Digital Skills Framework.
To inform the Open FTS tender, suppliers are invited to an online information event on 20 May 2025, 1pm–1:45pm, where contract managers will outline the project and the tender submission process, as well as fielding questions from prospective bidders.
Please register your interest to bid for this opportunity via this sell2wales notice and register your place at the PIN event by contacting Samantha Cole - digitalinclusionmailbox@gov.wales by 5pm on 15 May 2025.
The Welsh Government are publishing this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to notify suppliers of our intentions to update and re-tender the current Digital Inclusion contract. Details of the new contract will be contained in the tender documentation and we envisage the procurement will be conducted in Summer 2025 with the contract commencing Autumn 2025.
Digital exclusion continues to be a significant issue throughout the UK. The acceleration of transitioning services to online digital only access has meant that it is now essential to have some level of digital skills to be included in today’s society. Any barrier to digital connectivity, access and/or digital skills can mean someone is disadvantaged financially, socially and in respect of their wider well-being.
Digital Communities Wales: Digital Confidence, Health and Well-being (DCW), the Welsh Government funded £2million per annum flagship digital inclusion programme ends on 30 September 2025. The DCW programme has worked with organisations from all sectors that support digitally excluded people, providing training and support to front line staff and volunteers to help them develop the basic digital skills of citizens.
The focus of the new contract will be on delivery of a nationally delivered programme of activity to support digital inclusion work in Wales including developing a national inclusion advice service and undertaking mapping of digital inclusion provision across Wales.
It is envisaged that this national programme of activity would include the following elements:
• Mapping of digital inclusion provision throughout Wales
• Provision of digital inclusion advice, via regional and thematic skills advisers
• Creation and updating of digital inclusion skills resources
• Supporting bringing public and private sector stakeholders together to share knowledge and best practice and provide strategic leadership – reflecting the fact that digital inclusion is not owned by any one sector or organisation but is everyone’s business
The contract will recognise that becoming digitally included is a continuous process requiring ongoing support, which can take a long time to go from a first-time user to a position where one is able to demonstrate all five basic digital skills from the Essential Digital Skills Framework.
To inform the Open FTS tender, suppliers are invited to an online information event on 20 May 2025, 1pm–1:45pm, where contract managers will outline the project and the tender submission process, as well as fielding questions from prospective bidders.
Please register your interest to bid for this opportunity via this sell2wales notice and register your place at the PIN event by contacting Samantha Cole - digitalinclusionmailbox@gov.wales by 5pm on 15 May 2025.
This tender exercise aims to provide an export consultancy service that will assist Wales-based companies to develop the exporting side of their business. The service will work with businesses on a one-to-one basis and focus on three distinct areas:
International Trade Development (ITD) – Research provision covering overseas markets and the requirements for exporting particular goods / services.
International Trade Opportunities (ITO) – Identification of specific opportunities for export sales.
New Exporter Programme (NEP) – Recruit and develop an annual cohort of approximately 15 businesses into successful and sustainable exporters
Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh GovernmentWalesWAC-272643
The Welsh Government (the Employer) is seeking to appoint an independent Distribution Network Operator to:
Design, Build and Operate a new High Voltage Substation to provide power to the whole site.
Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh GovernmentWalesWAC-273794
The Welsh Government are publishing this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to notify suppliers of our intentions to update and re-tender the current Digital Inclusion contract. Details of the new contract will be contained in the tender documentation and we envisage the procurement will be conducted in Summer 2025 with the contract commencing Autumn 2025.
Digital exclusion continues to be a significant issue throughout the UK. The acceleration of transitioning services to online digital only access has meant that it is now essential to have some level of digital skills to be included in today’s society. Any barrier to digital connectivity, access and/or digital skills can mean someone is disadvantaged financially, socially and in respect of their wider well-being.
Digital Communities Wales: Digital Confidence, Health and Well-being (DCW), the Welsh Government funded £2million per annum flagship digital inclusion programme ends on 30 September 2025. The DCW programme has worked with organisations from all sectors that support digitally excluded people, providing training and support to front line staff and volunteers to help them develop the basic digital skills of citizens.
The focus of the new contract will be on delivery of a nationally delivered programme of activity to support digital inclusion work in Wales including developing a national inclusion advice service and undertaking mapping of digital inclusion provision across Wales.
It is envisaged that this national programme of activity would include the following elements:
• Mapping of digital inclusion provision throughout Wales
• Provision of digital inclusion advice, via regional and thematic skills advisers
• Creation and updating of digital inclusion skills resources
• Supporting bringing public and private sector stakeholders together to share knowledge and best practice and provide strategic leadership – reflecting the fact that digital inclusion is not owned by any one sector or organisation but is everyone’s business
The contract will recognise that becoming digitally included is a continuous process requiring ongoing support, which can take a long time to go from a first-time user to a position where one is able to demonstrate all five basic digital skills from the Essential Digital Skills Framework.
To inform the Open FTS tender, suppliers are invited to an online information event on 20 May 2025, 1pm–1:45pm, where contract managers will outline the project and the tender submission process, as well as fielding questions from prospective bidders.
Please register your interest to bid for this opportunity via this sell2wales notice and register your place at the PIN event by contacting Samantha Cole - digitalinclusionmailbox@gov.wales by 5pm on 15 May 2025.
Procurement:
The Welsh Government is conducting a procurement to establish a framework (the “Framework”) to deliver the Extending High Speed Broadband project (the "Project").
Once the Framework is established, the Authority intends to award a series of call-off contracts (following individual competitive selection processes), that will provide grant funding to telecoms suppliers to cover the "gap" in costs that are required to deliver superfast connections to communities / premises in Wales that would not otherwise be served by commercial operators under normal market conditions, due to the high infrastructure cost of building connections to those "hard to reach" communities / premises.
Coverage:
Following a recent review, the Welsh Government has identified that around 84,000 premises within Wales do not have access to superfast download speeds (at least 30Mbps) exacerbating the digital divide. Ofcom has previously stated that a subset of these (around 10,000 premises) do not yet have access to at least 10Mbps.
While there are existing interventions scheduled by the telecommunications industry and UK Government public funded interventions, the remote and hard-to-reach areas that have been identified are unlikely to be addressed commercially and it is not certain that they will be addressed by further publicly funded interventions.
The number of premises that are anticipated to be in scope for the Framework will be provided as part of the associated tender documents, but this will be subject to refinement/update during the duration of the Framework. The premises that are in-scope for each call-off contract will be confirmed in the relevant request for proposals issued under the Framework.
Preliminary Market Engagement:
The Welsh Government is publishing this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to notify suppliers of its intention to conduct a procurement for the Project, and identify likely contract terms for the Framework and call-off contracts that may be awarded under the Framework.
This exercise builds on previous market engagement that the Welsh Government conducted under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as referred to in the Prior Information Notice with reference ocds-kuma6s-131418 .
Additional Information:
The Welsh Government expects the Framework will have two lots. The first lot will be for projects that require the installation of broadband network infrastructure to 1,000 premises and over. The second lot will be for projects that require the installation of broadband network infrastructure to under 1,000 premises. The second lot will be suitable for SME’s and Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs).
The Authority expects the first Framework will commence in summer 2025 with the first call-off contract under the Framework being awarded in autumn 2025.
Please note that the estimated total value set out in this notice is in respect of all call-off contracts that may be awarded under the Framework. At this stage, it is an estimate only and is in no way guaranteed or final. The associated tender documents for this opportunity will contain more specific information.
The dates and total duration for the Framework and any call-off contracts referred to in this notice are also estimates and for illustrative purposes only. The associated tender documents for this opportunity will confirm the relevant anticipated dates for the Framework.
Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh GovernmentWalesWAC-438128
The Welsh Government requires a supplier to provide, host and support 2 cloud based learning management systems. Each system will be provided as a separate instance of the same product:
- Academi Wales provides leadership development for approx. 14k users across Welsh public service organisations.
- Learning Lab provides internal learning and development for approx. 5.5k users in the Welsh Government.
Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh GovernmentWalesWAC-50000