PROVISION OF UK BASED LANGUAGE TRAINING
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · published 17 Sept 2026
- Tender expected
- 4 Jan 2027
- Market engagement until
- 5 May 2026
- Estimated value
- £28,800,000 excluding VAT where stated
- Procedure
- Procedure not stated · above threshold
- Contract dates
- 1 Apr 2028 to 31 Mar 2033
- Where
- London (buyer's location)
- Categories (CPV)
- 80580000 Provision of language courses
- Small businesses
- The buyer marks this as suitable for SMEs.
Description
FCDO intends to procure a supplier(s) for professional language services training in up to 87 languages and management of the FCDO Language Centre. FCDO are also exploring the feasibility for Centres of Excellence to deliver a range of language training including but not limited to French, Arabic and Spanish. The new language training model has been designed to be scalable to meet the future needs of FCDO and HMG in terms of both volumes and languages available. FCDO is conducting a preliminary market engagement (PME) to inform the future procurement strategy, understand market capability, and ensure the designed competitive procedure is fair, accessible, and effective.
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