ECITB Horizons Scottish Central Belt STEM School Engagement Programme (S2 pupils) Pilot
Scope and Background
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is seeking a delivery partner or consortium to support the design and / or implementation of a regional careers attraction and STEM engagement programme designed to strengthen the future talent pipeline for the Engineering Construction Industry (ECI). The programme aims to increase awareness and understanding of engineering construction careers among young people, educators, and local communities while supporting industry workforce requirements across key industrial regions.
The ECITB intends to appoint delivery partner(s) through a competitive tender process to design, coordinate, and deliver regional STEM engagement programmes. Successful providers will be responsible for engaging schools, employers, educators, and local stakeholders to deliver curriculum-aligned activities, facilitate employer involvement, provide teacher development opportunities, and establish effective regional partnerships that maximise programme reach and impact.
This opportunity is to appoint a partner to deliver our pilot programme within the Scottish Central Belt for S2 pupils. Submissions can be made by a single supplier or multiple as a consortium.
Target Audience
The primary target audience for programme delivery shall be pupils aged 13-14 years (S3 / Key Stage 3 equivalent).
Secondary audiences shall include:
Teachers and educators
School careers leaders and careers advisers
Local employers and industry representatives
Regional STEM networks and partner organisations
The Pilot contract will be for an initial term of 2.5 years from January 2027 with delivery from September 2027 across two academic years.
About the ECITB
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is the employer-led skills, standards and qualifications body for the development of the engineering construction workforce of Great Britain. An arms-length body of the UK Government, the ECITB reports to the Department for Education. Our vision is a trailblazing Engineering Construction Industry where critical infrastructure, energy security and net zero ambitions are achieved.
The ECITB works with employers and training providers to attract, develop and qualify the engineering construction workforce in a wide range of craft, technical and professional disciplines. We invest about £28 million each year to support skills development within the industry.
*** Expression of Interest are required from potential bidders to ensure there involvement in the clarifications/enquiries stage of the tender process. Please email: [email protected] ***
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARDWAC-638770
View 6-notice timelineLatest notice released 7 Sept 2026
Public SectorTender
2027 ECITB Scholarships Programme: Scotland Central Belt
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is pleased to invite tender offers for our England: Scotland (Central Belt) regional Scholarships Programme 2027.
Full details can be found within the procurement pack, which is downloadable within this Notice.
The ECITB is tendering for contracts for the delivery of the skills and knowledge required within the 2027 ECITB Scholarship Programme (Scotland: Central Belt) from September 2027. Pathway requirements (1 Year) can be found within the procurement pack, specifically detailed within the Cohort Requirements by Discipline and the Specification document.
Scotland: Central Belt Level 5 Mechanical
**Please register your interest in this ITT to ensure you are included within the clarification (bidder question and answer) process by emailing: [email protected] ***
Thank you for your interest in the ECITB.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARDWAC-638079
2027 ECITB Scholarships Programme: ENGLAND East Coast
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is pleased to invite tender offers for our England: East Coast regional Scholarships Programme 2027.
Full details can be found within the procurement pack, which is downloadable within this Notice.
The ECITB is tendering for contracts for the delivery of the skills and knowledge required within the 2027 ECITB Scholarship Programme (England: East Coast) from September 2027. Pathway requirements (1 Year) can be found within the procurement pack, specifically detailed within the Cohort Requirements by Discipline and the Specification document.
England: East Coast Level 2 Pipefitting
**Please register your interest in this ITT to ensure you are included within the clarification (bidder question and answer) process by emailing: [email protected] ***
Thank you for your interest in the ECITB.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARDWAC-638084
2027 ECITB Scholarships Programme: ENGLAND Northeast Northwest & Humberside
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is pleased to invite tender offers for our England: London and South West regional Scholarships Programme 2027.
Full details can be found within the procurement pack, which is downloadable within this Notice.
The ECITB is tendering for contracts for the delivery of the skills and knowledge required within the 2027 ECITB Scholarship Programme (England: Northeast Northwest & Humberside) from September 2027. Pathway requirements can be found within the procurement pack, specifically detailed within the Cohort Requirements by discipline and the Specification documents.
This tender consists of 6 lots. Bidders can submit offers for individual, multiple or all lots as detailed within the relevant specifications. Please see the procurement pack for full guidance. All 1 year:
Lot 1: Northwest England - Birkenhead area: Level 2 Pipefitting
Lot 2: Northwest England - Birkenhead area: Level 2 Welding
Lot 3: Northeast England - Teesside: Level 2 Pipefitting
Lot 4: Northwest England - Cumbria: Level 2 Mechanical
Lot 5: Northwest England - Cumbria: Level 2 Rigging
Lot 6: Humberside - Level 2 Pipefitting
**Please register your interest in this ITT to ensure you are included within the clarification (bidder question and answer) process by emailing: [email protected] ***
Thank you for your interest in the ECITB.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARDWAC-638092
2027 ECITB Scholarships Programme: ENGLAND LONDON & SOUTHWEST
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is pleased to invite tender offers for our England: London and South West regional Scholarships Programme 2027.
Full details can be found within the procurement pack, which is downloadable within this Notice.
The ECITB is tendering for contracts for the delivery of the skills and knowledge required within the 2027 ECITB Scholarship Programme (England: South West and London) from September 2026. Pathway requirements can be found within the procurement pack, specifically detailed within the Cohort Requirements by discipline and the Specification documents.
This tender consists of 3 lots. Bidders can submit offers for individual, multiple or all lots as detailed within the relevant specifications. Please see the procurement pack for full guidance.
Lot 1: EDP - London - Level 3 Design & Draughting (2 yr)
Lot 2: Bridgwater Area - Level 2 Pipefitting (1 yr)
Lot 3: Bridgwater Area - Level 2 Welding (1 yr)
**Please register your interest in this ITT to ensure you are included within the clarification (bidder question and answer) process by emailing: [email protected] ***
Thank you for your interest in the ECITB.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARDWAC-638184
View 2-notice timelineLatest notice released 16 Sept 2026
IT & DigitalTender
Strategic Digital Delivery Partner
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is seeking to appoint a Strategic Digital Delivery Partner to support the delivery of its Digital Transformation Programme.
This procurement is for the provision of managed digital delivery services and does not include the replacement of CITB's strategic web content management platform. CITB has adopted Umbraco as its strategic CMS and has invested significantly in modern digital capabilities built on Umbraco and Microsoft technologies.
The successful supplier will provide the multidisciplinary delivery capability, specialist expertise, governance, support and continuous improvement services required to maximise this investment and deliver CITB's strategic objectives. The supplier will operate as a long-term strategic partner, supporting the design, delivery, operation, enhancement and optimisation of CITB's public-facing digital services.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Peterborough:-Systems-consultancy-services./39PJ4C3E2D
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/39PJ4C3E2D
SkillBuild is CITB’s flagship competition programme, designed to showcase construction skills across the UK. It plays a key role in promoting vocational excellence, supporting skills development, and raising awareness of careers in construction. As such CITB require a specialist Event build team to deliver consistent, safe, and high-quality competition environments across multiple Regional Qualifiers throughout the UK and the National Final
This is the first stage of a 2 stage process (EOI) to enable shortlisting of suppliers, to be invited to a final stage (ITT).
Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)WAC-643374
View 2-notice timelineLatest notice released 28 Sept 2026
Local GovernmentTender
Construction and Redevelopment of New Sports Hub, Café Pavilion, and Park Infrastructure Works throughout Sloughbottom Park
Norwich City Council was awarded UK government's Levelling Up Fund (LUF) to deliver improvements to Sloughbottom Park. The project is centred on health and wellbeing, aiming to improve the park accessibility and amenities for all users, supporting more people to live healthier and more active lifestyles from a young age.
This construction project will deliver a linked set of new community and sporting facilities, including:
• A new Sports Hub designed to Sport England and Football Foundation standards which will include new changing facilities, including fully accessible facilities; changing places toilet; multi use studio; refreshment outlet and associated office reception and storage facilities
• Full refurbishment of existing Pavilion to provide a new café facility, public WCs and a community use room, to serve park users.
• Existing landscaping to the front of the Pavilion will be upgraded to allow for community use and easy transition between the new pavilion café and the new destination play park.
• To the south of the park sits an existing BMX track, this construction contract includes providing new footpaths and lighting to the track and the construction of a new modular storage building with lighting and potable water and associated facilities at the BMX track.
• Park's supporting infrastructure improvements throughout. The car park will be resurfaced with a new vehicle entrance, lighting and marked parking bays. Paths around the park will be resurfaced and lighting to the central path through the park to improve safety and visibility.
• Signage will be installed to assist with public navigation, particularly for the entrance into Sweetbriar Marshes from Sloughbottom Park.
• In addition to the main contractors works the following will be completed by specialist contractors under a separate contract:
o a new AGP football pitch will be constructed
o a new inclusive destination play park.
o Improvements and resurfacing of the BMX track, including a new electric start gate.
St Albans City and District Council (SADC) is exploring the future procurement for preconstruction services for design development of new temporary accommodation, with design development to be led by a main works contractor for a variety of sites in St Albans City and District.. The appointed contractor will lead design development and submission of
planning applications for up to approximately 40 units of 1-2 bed homes across the initial two
development sites. The successful contractor will be expected to consider all opportunities to
prioritise timely delivery of a cost and energy efficient design which may include modern
methods of construction to achieve this aim.
Basildon Borough Council is exploring opportunities to establish and operate a new Basildon Construction Academy that will support the delivery of local skills, training, employment and apprenticeship opportunities aligned with the borough's regeneration and growth ambitions.
Prior to commencing any formal procurement process, the Council is seeking to engage with experienced training providers, further education institutions, industry operators, and consortium partners to help shape the future operating model for the Academy.
The Council is therefore inviting interested organisations to participate in an interactive pre-market engagement workshop to discuss opportunities, challenges, delivery models and options appraisals to help form the specification.
The ECITB is looking to engage with suppliers who may have an interest in a future contract opportunity for the provision of fraud-resistant card solutions across ECITB's CCNSG, LaTS, IHSP and ICE schemes, spanning both physical and digital cards, delivered through a single supplier.
The proposed contract solution should meet the fraud-resistance criteria set out in the Specification, of which a draft version has been made available with this PME notice to support our pre-market engagement activities, and can be downloaded via the below link.
SPECIFICATION DRAFT PME (please copy and paste into your browser):
https://www.ecitb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/P2606-1-ECITB-Specification-Card-Production-CCNSG-26-DRAFT-for-PME.pdf
If this future contract may of interest to you, we encourage your expression of interest and early engagement via completion of our Teams Pre Market Engagement Questionnaire, which you can access here:
https://forms.office.com/e/zU8paDBvu7
Please note, this is NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION at this stage. The ECITB may carry out other pre market engagement activities at its discretion.
About the ECITB
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is the employer-led skills, standards and qualifications body for the development of the engineering construction workforce of Great Britain. An arms-length body of the UK Government, the ECITB reports to the Department for Education. Our vision is a trailblazing Engineering Construction Industry where critical infrastructure, energy security and net zero ambitions are achieved.
The ECITB works with employers and training providers to attract, develop and qualify the engineering construction workforce in a wide range of craft, technical and professional disciplines. We invest about £28 million each year to support skills development within the industry.
Thank you for your interest, any queries or issues with access to the links shared, please email: [email protected]
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARDWAC-613977
Concertus Suffolk are seeking to create a Construction and Building Services Framework. The Framework will be utilised by public authorities and public undertakings within the areas highlighted in the notice to deliver their construction and building needs including new builds, extensions, refurbishments, installation of mechanical, electrical and plumbing on all types of buildings in the public realm. The framework will be for a period of 4 years.
The Lot structure is to be finalised following the completion the PME phase, but shall be based on geography and value of projects
CBC-1897-T-SM Construction Framework 2.0 RFI (Request for Information)
Central Bedfordshire Council is undertaking market engagement to inform the development of a new Construction Framework.
The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to gather feedback from the market on the proposed framework structure, procurement and award mechanisms, contract management arrangements, performance measures and contractual approaches.
This is not a procurement exercise, call for competition, or invitation to tender. The information provided will be used solely to help shape the Authority's procurement strategy and framework design. Participation in this RFI is voluntary and responses will not be evaluated or used to assess future supplier suitability.
The Authority welcomes feedback from organisations of all sizes and encourages suppliers to provide open and constructive responses based on their experience of delivering similar works and operating within comparable frameworks.