Other Providers - Procurement of Guidance and Frameworks
Civil Service Learning
Civil Service Learning is a small, new Civil Service organisation which is responsible for setting a Common Curriculum for generic learning and development and providing generic L&D opportunities for the whole of the Civil Service.
By having one provider of generic learning and development and one purchaser of L&D provision, the Civil Service will be able to save arounfd £90 million per year and will significantly reduce the amount of duplication which occurs when each Department sources, purchases and develops similar learning intervanetions.
Civil Service Learning launched in April 2011 and continues to add to its learning and development portfolio, with the aim of having a full range of opportunities available from April 2012.
From April 2012 the expectation is that all Whitehall Departments' genereic learning and development needs will be met through the CSL common curriculum.
To access the CSL Portal for the first time, each individual needs to register and this takes between 5 and 10 minutes. You will be asked to complete a number of fields which include location, employment type, working patreern. Please note there is an option of 'prefer not to say.' When you register you will receive a password which you will need to use for future visists to the site. Here is the CSL website address www.civilservice.gov.uk/learning
Frameworks
BIS Frameworks are open to BIS Agencies and Other Government Departments:
Coaching
Coaching is part of the Department's overall learning and development provision, providing support and development to help individuals and teams develop the skills to meet new challenges and performance goals.
The Learning and Development team has set up a framework agreement with providers of coaching services, broken down into a series of lots. The lots in the framework agreement focus on the different needs of particular individuals and groups.
If you are interested in finding out more please contact Sarah.Stone@bis.gsi.gov.uk
National School of Government
The National School of Government (NSG) will close on 31 March 2012 and a small amount of NSG provision and people have moved to Civil Service Learning which means some of the core programmes will from part of the common curriculum. NSG have announced that until then they will continue to operate on a business as usual basis. Departments are in ongoing discussion with NSG about their resource capacity and capability as they move towards closure. Please contact the BIS L&D team if you have any queries concerning NSG provision between now and its closure.
Government Procurement Service
The Government Procurement Service is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office. Their overall priority is to provide procurement savings for the UK Public Sector as a whole and specifically to deliver centralised procurement for Central Government Departments. To access this database click on Buying Solutions
