Awarded contract

RAF Funding of The Arkwright Scholarship Programme

Details

Buyer: Ministry of Defence
Supplier(s): The Smallpeice Trust
Value: £531,914.89
Topic: Secondary education services
Published: 30 April 2024
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The RAF Youth STEM programme is the largest of its kind across UK Government and seeks to maximise reach nationally. In order to promote the RAF and our role in support of STEM nationally, we have to identify engagement routes that do not require direct RAF interaction, but support the same aims and objectives. The Arkwright Scholars programme, delivered by the Smallpeice Trust, is a nationally recognised programme that provides financial support to sixth form students who wish to study engineering at university. Lot 1: he RAF Youth STEM programme is the largest of its kind across UK Government and seeks to maximise reach nationally. In order to promote the RAF and our role in support of STEM nationally, we have to identify engagement routes that do not require direct RAF interaction, but support the same aims and objectives. The Arkwright Scholars programme, delivered by the Smallpeice Trust, is a nationally recognised programme that provides financial support to sixth form students who wish to study engineering at university.

Timeline

Completed: Award date30 March 2024
Completed: Award published30 April 2024
Current notice

About the buyer

The Ministry of Defence is a ministerial department that runs its acquisition and procurement activity through a dedicated commercial function, led by the Director Commercial. Defence Equipment & Support buys, supports and supplies equipment such as jets, warships and armoured vehicles for the armed forces. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation plans, builds and maintains the defence estate separately from equipment procurement. Suppliers can register on the Defence Sourcing Portal, the department's end-to-end eProcurement system for contract opportunities. Many purchasing agreements sit on the MOD Framework Library, its central list of framework routes to market.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Ministry of Defence's contract awards have been in IT services, architectural and engineering services and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

80200000 · Secondary education services

Decision makers

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