# Request for Information concerning WorldSkills UK

> Pre-procurement notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Published: 30 March 2021
- Stage: pre_procurement
- Notice ID: cc9e48c6-aa4b-4361-b9f2-6dcbb7dba93c-424772
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-786451ad-b283-4569-868a-9f52b982531d

## Description

The Education and Skills Funding Agency \(ESFA\) would like interested organisations to share market intelligence and provide innovative approaches for the future operating model for WorldSkills in the UK\. Focus is on how to best use our membership to WorldSkills International to support improving our Technical and Vocational Education and Training \(TVET\) system to a world class level for all to access\. This "Request for Information \(RFI\)" aims to refresh market intelligence so as to understand more about the supplier market and the thoughts/ideas in the area of skills competitions, particularly covering public sector aspects of Learning & Development, Quality of Teaching, Skills, Employability, Competitions Events & Marketing, and Qualification standards or products\. We appreciate any response and insight you can provide and will use this to assess how the function could operate going forward and to understand whether the operating model could be improved to grant more of our citizens access to technical and vocational standards at an international level\.

## Related contract awards

- [Call-off Contract for the November 2026 cohort of the National Professional Qualifications \(NPQs\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ce0d651b-c3d5-481d-ad4d-3f5dc8bbd35e): Department for Education
- [Contract Award Notice Independent review into 2DP fire and structural safety](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5297e4b5-9ab5-4948-95c5-119730f371ef): Department for Education
- [Inclusion Bases: exploring evidence of impact and models\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-76dee6b0-7bcc-49cd-b784-34d2192c05a4): Department for Education

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cc9e48c6-aa4b-4361-b9f2-6dcbb7dba93c-424772)