Skills Bootcamps

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Success like no other

Our Skills Bootcamps bid team has an unmatched record of success in supporting new market entrants; enabling subcontractors to step-up to direct contract holders; and propelling the growth of providers across the UK.

Professional Support for Skills Bootcamps Funding

From national skills bootcamps procured by the DfE, to local procurements by the likes of LCRCA, WMCA, GMCA, SYMCA, NTCA/NEMCA, WYCA, and local councils, our expertise has delivered.

We understand what the ESFA and combined authorities want to see in a successful Skills Bootcamps bid and know how to present that information concisely and effectively.

Our team of APMP qualified bid experts will work with you to produce comprehensive and compelling answers to all the Bootcamps questions, including meeting local needs, delivery, value for money/added value, social value, learner/employer engagement, and learner journey. Using BidSuite, your answers will be fully aligned with the award criteria, maximising your scoring potential.

Using BidSuite, you can reduce your bidding costs by 70% (vs. an in-house bid writer) and increase your bid success by up to 590%.

BidSuite’s range of trained, industry-leading bid engines will support every aspect of your Skills Bootcamps bid, providing an invaluable double-check of organisational information and positive challenge to your funding allocation request.

We combine Skills Bootcamps knowledge with bid expertise to create outstanding submissions that secure valuable contracts for our clients.

Experts you can rely on

We study best practice and draw information from standards, reports, white papers, and publications by sector bodies, including ESFA, DfE, Ofqual, and Ofsted. We also leverage our membership of AELP, allowing us to integrate established and innovative approaches into our clients’ Skills Bootcamps bids, who use BidSuite to produce these.

Our understanding of Skills Bootcamps and the education, training, and employment sector is unrivalled. From the ESFA’s Skills Bootcamps technical funding guidance to the DfE’s Skills for Jobs white paper, we ensure BidSuite remains informed, up-to-date, and fully aligned to commissioners requirements.

You will benefit from strategic conversations with our Skills Bootcamps experts about curriculum design and intent, quality assurance, delivery models, learner journeys, and meeting local and individuals’ needs, to make certain your Skills Bootcamps bid delivers in every scored aspect.

Funding opportunities

  • Borough Council of Calderdale - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£360k) - Closing date: 28/08/2025 - LIVE NOW

    • In Wave 6, West Yorkshire Combined Authority has created the opportunity for Local Authorities (LAs) to manage borough-level programmes of activity. Consequently, the Borough Council of Calderdale is awarding £360k to training providers delivering their Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps from September 2025-2026, supporting the Borough-wide Vision 2034. There are 6 Lots being procured:

      • Lot 1: Green Skills (£54k, 12 learners)

      • Lot 2: Health and Social Care (£108k, 24 learners)

      • Lot 3: Creative Digital (£54k, 12 learners)

      • Lot 4: Early Years (£54k, 12 learners)

      • Lot 5: Welding and Fabrication (£54k, 12 learners)

      • Lot 6: Construction & Civil Engineering (£36k, 8 learners)

  • West of England Combined Authority (WECA) - 3-4 Year Skills Bootcamps Framework (£60m) - RFI questionnaire submission date: 05/09/2025 (12:00) - LIVE NOW

    • WECA is awarding £60m of funding to training providers delivering Skills Bootcamps under their 3–4-Year framework. This will cover Skills Bootcamps from Wave 7 onwards, up until 2029 and 2030 subject to extension.

    • With the expected ITT release date of Autumn 2025, now is the time to begin employer engagement in the WECA region. You also have the opportunity before 12:00 on 05/09/2025 to shape the upcoming tender by  completing WECA’s Request for Information (RFI) Questionnaire.

    • The Skills Bootcamps funding total has increased year-on-year; from £6.3m of funding allocated for Wave 5 delivery to £11.6m awarded for Wave 6 in 2025/26, WECA anticipates Wave 7 to and further waves under this framework to award similar amounts. There are 13 Bootcamp subject areas being procured:

      • Lot 1: Agriculture, Horticulture & Animal Care

      • Lot 2: Arts, Media & Publishing

      • Lot 3: Business, Administration & Law

      • Lot 4: Construction, Planning & the Built Environment

      • Lot 5: Digital Technology

      • Lot 6: Education & Training

      • Lot 7: Engineering & Manufacturing Technologies

      • Lot 8: Health, Public Services & Care

      • Lot 9: Leisure, Travel & Tourism

      • Lot 10: Logistics & Transport

      • Lot 11: Preparation for Life & Work

      • Lot 12: Retail & Commercial Enterprise

      • Lot 13: Science & Mathematics

  • West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) - Construction Skills Bootcamp (£940k) - Closing date: 09/09/2025 - LIVE NOW

    • WYCA is awarding £940k to training providers delivering their Wave 6 Construction Skills Bootcamps until at least March 2026, subject to 3 possible extensions up to September 2027, bringing the anticipated total value across 4 phases up to £3.76m. This opportunity will only be available to those who have been appointed onto the WYCA Adult Skills DPS (Tender Answers has a 100% success rate in appointing training providers onto this DPS).

  • Oxfordshire County Council - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - PHASE 3/3 (£218k)- Closing date: 22/09/2025 - LIVE NOW

    • Enterprise Oxfordshire Skills, on behalf of Oxfordshire County Council, will award £218k to training providers delivering their Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps. The procurement process is spread across 3 phases, with their third and final phase now open for submissions across the following 3 Lots:

      • Lot 1: Lab Technician (£150k)

      • Lot 2: Construction Safety (£32k)

      • Lot 3: Prison Leavers - Green Construction (£36k)

  • Crown Commercial Service (CCS) - Adult Skills and Learning DPS (£1bn), inc. Skills Bootcamps Funding - Closing date: 27/10/2028 - LIVE NOW

    • CCS is putting in place a pan-government DPS to support the provision of Adult Learning and Skills requirements that can be used by all public sector organisations e.g., Combined Authorities, Devolved Administrations, Local Authorities, Education Establishments and Central Government Departments. The new agreement will provide a route to market for all available 16 to 18 and 19+ funding streams, including Skills Bootcamps funding.

  • West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) - Technical Education, Skills and Employment FPS (£1bn) inc. Skills Bootcamps - Closing date: 23/02/2029 - LIVE NOW

  • West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in Q2 2025.

  • West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in Q3 2025.

    • Providers need to be on WYCA’s Adult Skills DPS (Tender Answers has a 100% success rate in appointing training providers onto this DPS).

  • Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in Q3 2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6, Round 2 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in Q3 2025.

  • Derbyshire County Council (D2N2) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in October 2025.

  • South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected Q2 2026.

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Funding awards (tendered)

  • Portsmouth City Council - Lots 19-21 Solent Skills Bootcamp Framework (£3.84m) - Awaiting result.

  • Leicester and Leicestershire Councils - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£2.6m) -Awaiting result.

  • Oxfordshire County Council - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - PHASE 2/3 (£1.15m) - Awaiting result.

  • Essex County Council - Wave 6 Bootcamps 2025/26 (£600k) - Awaiting result.

  • Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£5.1m) - Awaiting result.

  • Oxfordshire County Council - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - PHASE 1/3 (£886k) - Awaiting result.

  • Kent County Council - Skills Bootcamps (£9m) - Awaiting result.

  • Portsmouth City Council - Solent Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£3.195m) - Awaiting result.

  • Greater London Authority (GLA) - Wave 6 Skills for Londoners Bootcamps (£27m) - Awaiting result.

  • Devon County Council - Wave 6 Train4Tomorrow ‘Skills For Life’ Skills Bootcamps - Awaiting result.

  • West of England Combined Authority (WECA) - Call 2: Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£1.27m) - Awaiting result.

  • York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority (YNYCA) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£1.39m) - Awaiting result.

  • North East Mayoral Combined Authority (NECA) - Lot 3 Skills Bootcamps (via Adult Skills Framework FPS) (£9m) - Awaiting result.

  • West of England Combined Authority (WECA) - Call 1: Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£5.38m) - Awaiting result.

  • Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) - Skills Bootcamps DPS (£37.5m) - Awaiting result.

  • Cornwall Council - Adult Skills and Skills Bootcamps DPS (£16m) - Awaiting result.

  • East Sussex County Council - Skills Bootcamps (£7m) - Awaiting result.

  • Lancashire County Council - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamp Programme (£6m) - Awaiting result.

  • Oxfordshire LEP Limited - Skills Bootcamps for Oxfordshire (£280k) - Awaiting result.

  • Middlesborough College - Provision of Wind Energy Skills Bootcamps - Awaiting result.

  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) - Wave 5 Skills Bootcamps (£1.80m) - 12 awards. CoGrammar Ltd (trading as HyperionDev) - £531,520; The Construction Skills People Ltd - £140,000; Think Employment Ltd - £99,572; Unique Training Solutions Ltd - £196,000; YTKO - £107,849; College of West Anglia - £139,000; Duplex Business Services Limited - £304,000; PECT - £52,500; The Retrofit Academy CIC - £29,450; 3counties Accounts Training Service Ltd - £108,000; Oxford Energy Academy - £45,500; EqualEngineers - £45,000. Contract end date: 30/09/2025.

  • Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) - Skills Bootcamps in Engineering & Manufacturing - W5.2 - Awaiting result.

  • West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) - Skills Bootcamps (£1.1m) - Awaiting result.

  • West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) - Adult Skills DPS (£1.0m) - Awaiting result.

  • West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) - DPS16 Skills Bootcamps (£10.655m) - Awaiting result.

  • Oxfordshire LEP - Skills Bootcamps (£1.474m) - Awaiting result.

  • Greater London Authority (GLA) - London Skills Bootcamps (£11.3m) - Awaiting result.

  • Kirklees Council - Skills Bootcamps (£544k) - 2 awards. Huddersfield Textile Training Ltd, £136,000; Qualia Aesthetics Ltd, £136,000. Contract length and start date: 1 year + 1 year optional extension (13/05/2024).

  • Cumberland Council - Wave 5 Skills Bootcamps (£1.53m) - 18 awards. System People Limited, £149,387.50; Furness College, Skills Fix Limited, University of Cumbria, £167,680; University of Cumbria, £34,200; Barrow Training Partnership, Clint Stamper Training Limited, Skills Fix Limited, The Corporation of NCG, The Gas Rooms Limited, £428,867; Furness College, Scale-Ability Ltd, The Corporation of NCG, £261,028.39; Furness College, Lakes College, The Corporation of NCG, £383,124; New Generation Training and Consultancy Limited, University of Cumbria, £79,200. Delivery end date: 30/09/2025.

  • Buckinghamshire Council - Skills Bootcamp for Construction Site Supervisor (c.£119k) - Awaiting result.

  • Buckinghamshire Council - Skills Bootcamp for Groundworkers (c.£77k) - Awaiting result.

  • Surrey County Council - Skills Bootcamps (£2.325m) - Awaiting result.

  • Buckinghamshire Council - Skills Bootcamps for Cyber Security (c.£70k) - Buckinghamshire Council - Awaiting result.

  • Buckinghamshire Council - Skills Bootcamps for Games Design (c.£79.5k) - Awaiting result.

  • Buckinghamshire Council - Skills Bootcamp for Film and TV (c.£932k) - 6 awards. National Film And Television School, £66,250; All Spring Media Limited, £167,400; All Spring Media Limited, £167,706; All Spring Media Limited, £111,600; All Spring Media Limited, £111,600; All Spring Media Limited, £111,600.

  • Suffolk County Council - Norfolk and Suffolk Skills Bootcamps (£4.4m) - 18 awards. Action Community Enterprises CIC, £45,396; Alexander Mann Solutions Limited, £67,500; Anicca Digital Ltd, £225,000; Central Young Men's Christian Association, £82,188; City College Norwich, £29,312; Core AI Limited, £169,980; East Coast College, £202,528; EqualEngineers, £71,500; Estu Global Ltd, £130,000; HGV Training Services Ltd, £116,520; House Builder XL Ltd, £27,984; Suffolk New College, £62,640; Tech Educators, £131,250; The Construction Skills People Ltd, £120,000; TheLightBulb Limited, £20,920; TRS Training Limited, £20,000; Turning Factor, £37,900; West Suffolk College, £69,000.

  • Lancashire County Council - Delivery of Skills Bootcamp - c.£1.6m - 19 awards. Contract length and start date: 1 year 5 months (26/04/2023).

  • DfE - Skills Bootcamps DPS Call Off Competition 1 (Sales, Marketing and Procurement) - c.£8.34m - 16 awards. Start date: 01/09/2023.

  • DfE - Skills Bootcamps DPS Call Off Competition 1 (Digital) - c.£43.25m - 30 awards. Start date: 01/09/2023.

  • West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) - Creative & Cultural Skills Bootcamps - £612.5k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 1 year (30/09/2023).

  • DfE Project - 5910 - DfE - Wave 3 Skills Bootcamps Lot 4 - Technical Bespoke - ITT_1144 (Multiple Contracts) - c.£3.65m - 3 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (28/02/2022).

  • North Tyneside Council - North of Tyne Combined Authority and North East LEP Wave 3 Skills Bootcamp - £7.4m - 21 awards. Contract length & start date: 9 months (04/07/2022).

  • New Anglia LEP Ltd - Norfolk and Suffolk Wave 4 Skills Bootcamps - c.£1.04m - 12 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/04/2023).

  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) - Wave 3 Skills Bootcamps - Construction and Green Skills - £1.5m - 5 awards. Contract length & start date: 6.5 months (17/09/2022).

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6, Round 1 Skills Bootcamp - Category 1 - Public Health Public Services and Care - £400k - 2 awards. Biograd Examination Centre at Liverpool Science Park (2 Lots). Start date: 01/04/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6, Round 1 Skills Bootcamp - Category 3 - Agriculture Horticulture and Environmental Conservation - c.£505k - 2 awards. Maersk Training UK Limited, £329,910; Morton Training UK Ltd, £175,000. Start date: 01/04/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6, Round 1 Skills Bootcamp - Category 4 - Engineering, Manufacturing Technologies and Vehicle Operations - c.£1.91m - 10 awards. North Humberside Motor Trades Group Training Association, £204,000; Ideal Boilers Ltd, £1,093,500 (4 Lots); TEC Partnership, £364,500 (3 Lots); SJP Driver Training Ltd, £55,000; HGV Training Services Ltd, £80,000. Start date: 01/04/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6, Round 1 Skills Bootcamp - Category 5 - Construction, Planning and the Built Environment - c.£425k - 4 awards. Wise Training Streetworks & Construction Ltd (4 Lots). Start date: 01/04/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6, Round 1 Skills Bootcamp - Category 6 - Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - c.£1.07m - 9 awards. Tech Educators Ltd, c.£753k (6 Lots); Fareport Training Organisation Ltd, £192,000; Connexin Ltd, £48,000; The Skills Network Ltd, £80,000. Start date: 01/04/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6, Round 1 Skills Bootcamp - Category 18 -Bespoke/Niche Training - c.£545k - 5 awards. Enterprise4all (North West) Ltd, £120,000; University of Hull - Faculty of Business, Law & Politics, £158,750 (2 Lots); Future Connect Training and Recruitment Ltd, £120,000; Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce Industry and Shipping, £146,000. Start date: 01/04/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 5, Round 3 Skills Bootcamp - Category 2 - Science and Mathematics (Lot 21a: Practical Laboratory Skills) - £100k - 1 award. Biograd Examination Centre at Liverpool Science Park. Start date: 08/01/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 5, Round 3 Skills Bootcamp - Category 3 - Green Skills (Lot 49: Wind Turbine Technician) - £36k - 1 award. Maersk Training UK Limited. Start date: 19/02/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 5 Skills Bootcamp - Lot 50: Arboricultural Worker - £35k - 1 award. Morton Training UK Ltd. Start date: 12/02/2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 4 Skills Bootcamp - Further Retender Additional Lots Category 5 - c.£91.5k - 3 awards. Start date: 22/09/2023.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 3 Skills Bootcamps - Category 4: Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies and Vehicle operations - £764k - 7 awards. Contract length & start date: 4 months (18/08/2022).

  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) - Provision of Digital Skills Bootcamps - Employers - £1.5m - 2 awards. Contract length & start date: 2 years 8.5 months (12/07/2022).

  • West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) - AEB Digital Bootcamps - £21m - 10 awards. Contract length & start date: 3 years (23/10/2021).

  • Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) - Digital Skills Bootcamp - £643k - 18 awards. Contract length & start date: 4 months (14/12/2021).