Skills Bootcamps

Win Skills Bootcamps contracts contracts through our success-based and no-win no-fee models

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.

Expertise 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

  • Leicester and Leicestershire Councils - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£2.6m) - First Come, First Serve Basis - LIVE NOW

    • Leicester City Council (LCC), in partnership with Leicestershire County Council and the Business & Skills Partnership, is awarding £2.6m of grant funding to successful course providers that complete their stage 1 application for the Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps for the 2025/26 financial year. Key skills areas of interest to LCC include Construction Management and Construction Trades; Green Skills (Construction & Buildings, Transport, Protection of Natural Resources, and Business & Industry); HGV Driving; Advanced Manufacturing and Electronics & Electrotechnical; Cyber, Data, and Software Development; Health & Social Care; Apprenticeship Paths; Early Year Provision; and Textile & Fashion. 

  • Devon County Council - Wave 6 Train4Tomorrow ‘Skills For Life’ Skills Bootcamps - Closing date: 02/05/2025 - LIVE NOW

    • Devon County Council (DCC) is awarding £5.41m across 13 lots as part of the Wave 6 Train4Tomorrow ‘Skills For Life’ - Skills Bootcamps. Providers can bid for multiple lots and submit up to 4 separate bids in one lot, making this a sizeable opportunity for eligible providers.

  • Kent County Council - Skills Bootcamps (£9m) - Closing date: 05/05/2025 - LIVE NOW

    • KCC is is awarding £9m (inc. VAT) across Skills Bootcamps that align with the Kent & Medway Economic Framework (KMEF) ambitions to widen opportunities and unlock talent, with the aim of supporting approximately 530 learners. The following 6 subject areas have identified skills shortages in the region: Creative, Agri-Food, Construction, Retail, Health & Social Care, and Early Years & School.

  • Portsmouth City Council - Solent Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps (£3.195m) - Closing date: 14/05/2025 - LIVE NOW

    • Portsmouth City Council, on behalf of the Solent Growth Partnership, is is awarding £3.195m to Skills Bootcamps providers across the Solent as part of a series of skills interventions under the Skills for Life Programme. Tenders are invited from suitably qualified suppliers in order to set up a Light Touch Framework (multi-lot, multi-supplier) to provide Skills Bootcamp Training across 18 lots, including: Construction; Engineering and Manufacturing; Digital; Creative and Design; Education and Early Years; Care; Transport and Logistics; Green Skills; Hospitality; and Retail.

  • Greater London Authority (GLA) - Wave 6 Skills for Londoners Bootcamps (£27m) - Closing date: 27/05/2025 - LIVE NOW

    • The Greater London Authority (GLA) is awarding £27.028m across 12 priority sectors as part of its Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps for Londoners Programme. These comprise of: Green (Technical/Construction/Other); Technical; Construction; Logistics; Early Years; Digital; Creative; Pathway to Accelerated Apprenticeship; Hospitality; Health and Social Care (including Life Sciences); Financial and Professional Services; and Retail.

  • Crown Commercial Service (CCS) - Adult Skills and Learning DPS (£1bn), inc. Skills Bootcamps Funding - 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 Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in Q2 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 Q2 2025.

  • Hull City Council - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in Q2 2025.

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

  • Oxfordshire LEP - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected in Q2 2025.

  • South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) - Wave 6 Skills Bootcamps - ITT expected Q2 2025.

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

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Funding awards (tendered)

  • 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 (£2.6m) - Awaiting result.

  • 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.

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

  • 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 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).