AEB Funding

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Success like no other

Our AEB 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 national and devolved areas.

Professional support for AEB funding

Our team has led the production of over 100 successful AEB bids, securing over £125m of funding for our clients.

We understand what the ESFA and combined authorities want to see in a successful AEB bid and know how to present that information effectively. From national AEB to devolved rounds in GMCA, GLA, NTCA/NEMCA, WMCA, WYCA, SCR, SYMCA, CPCA, and LCRCA, our expertise has delivered.

Our APMP qualified bid experts will work with you to produce comprehensive and compelling answers to all the AEB questions, including meeting local needs, delivery, 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 AEB bid, providing an invaluable double-check of organisational information and positive challenge to your funding allocation request.

We combine AEB 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 the ESFA, DfE, Ofqual, and Ofsted. We also leverage our membership of AELP, allowing us to integrate established and innovative approaches into our clients’ AEB bids, who use BidSuite to produce these.

Our understanding of AEB funding and the education, training, and employment sector is unrivalled. From the AEB funding rules 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 AEB experts about curriculum design and intent, quality assurance, delivery models, learner journeys, and meeting local and individuals’ needs, to make certain your AEB bid delivers in every scored aspect.

Funding opportunities

  • CCS Adult Skills and Learning DPS (£1bn), inc. AEB/ASF Funding - Crown Commercial Service - LIVE NOW

  • Adult Learning Services in Merton - London Borough of Merton. Closing date: 19/11/2024 - LIVE NOW

  • GCP Skills & Apprenticeship Service 2025 - Cambridgeshire City Council. Closing date: 11/12/2024 - LIVE NOW

  • Study Programme & Traineeships DPS - Worcestershire County Council. Closing date: 31/07/2025 - LIVE NOW

  • Liverpool Adult Learning DPS - Liverpool City Council. Closing Date: 31/07/2025 - LIVE NOW

  • Pseudo-DPS for the subcontracting of ESFA funded training provision - Gateshead Council. Closing date: 10/06/2025 - LIVE NOW

  • Further Education Training Providers for Adult Education - West Yorkshire Combined Authority. Closing date: 01/04/2026 - LIVE NOW

  • Cambridgeshire Skills Approved Provider List (AEB) (£1.276m) - CPCA. Closing date: 31/08/2026 - LIVE NOW

  • Adult Learning and Skills Activities in Community Settings DPS (£2.46m) - Sheffield City Council. Closing date: 31/07/2027 - LIVE NOW

  • Education, Work and Skills Flexible Procurement System - Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Closing date: 14/04/2027 - LIVE NOW

  • Skills Training Service Contract DPS - West Midlands Combined Authority. Closing date: 05/07/2032 - LIVE NOW

  • Employment, Skills and Economic Development DPS - Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. Closing date: 01/08/2025 - LIVE NOW

  • Post 16 Education and Training DPS August 2024 - South Tyneside Council. Closing date: 31/07/2027 - LIVE NOW

  • Employability and Skills DPS (£60m) - Warwickshire County Council. Closing Date: 25/06/2028 - LIVE NOW

  • Approved Provider List for the Provision of Training and Learning, Apprenticeships and Exam Centres - North Yorkshire Council. Closing date: 31/03/2029 - LIVE NOW

  • Learning and training DPS - Hull City Council. Closing date: 24/05/2030 - LIVE NOW

  • Skills Training Service Contract - West Midlands Combined Authority. Closing date: 05/07/2032 - LIVE NOW

  • The City of Liverpool College - DPS - AEB (Liverpool City Region) - The City of Liverpool College. Closing date: 30/03/2033 - LIVE NOW

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Funding awards (tendered)

  • Young Persons Transitions (£3.64m) - Cornwall Council. Closing date: 30/09/2024 - Awaiting result.

  • ROUND 2 - TC020 - Alternative Provision (Education) Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) - Bolton Council - Awaiting result.

  • North Ayrshire Employability Service Delivery Framework Reissue (£2.94m) - North Ayrshire Council - Awaiting result.

  • ASF Subcontract (£825k) - South Hampshire College Group - Awaiting result.

  • FPS for Educational & Vocational Training Programs to 16-18-year-olds - Bury Council - Awaiting result.

  • Re-Opening of EALEP Trusted Partner Framework (£10.5m) - East Ayrshire Council - Awaiting result.

  • A DfE Registered Alternative Provision at The Northwood Centre (£15m) - Wiltshire Council - Awaiting result.

  • Adult Skills Course Delivery (£450k) - East Durham College - Awaiting result.

  • GMCA AEB 2024/2025 (£624k) - Workers Educational Association - Awaiting result.

  • Loughborough College ASF (£200k) - Loughborough College - Awaiting result.

  • P148 Distance Learning Subcontracted provision (£1.2m) - Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) - Awaiting result.

  • Adult Education DPS - Cheshire West and Chester Council - Awaiting result.

  • Supply of Education Services (£500m) - Kent County Council - Awaiting result.

  • Trusted Partner Flexible Framework Agreement - South Ayrshire Local Employability Partnership (SALEP) - Awaiting result.

  • ESFA 16-19 Study Programmes (£217k for Lot 1, £258k for Lot 2) - Nottingham College - Awaiting result.

  • Non Devolved Adult Skills Fund (Subcontracting) EFSA (£150k) - The City of Liverpool College - Awaiting result.

  • 2024/25 Subcontract Delivery of Free Courses for Jobs (£700k) - Capital City College Group - Awaiting result.

  • ASF Funding - Bridgwater and Taunton College - Awaiting result.

  • Heart of Yorkshire Education Group - ASF Provision - Heart of Yorkshire Education Group - Awaiting result.

  • Gloucestershire framework agreement for Adult Education: Community and adult skills programme 2024 - 2026 - Gloucestershire County Council - Awaiting result.

  • Chelmsford College - ASF Subcontracting Tender (£225k) - Chelmsford College - Awaiting result.

  • ASF Subcontract Delivery - Sunderland City Council - Awaiting result.

  • Adult and Community Learning Framework - Hereford Council - Awaiting result.

  • ASF Subcontract Delivery for Construction Skills (c.£6m) - Solihull College - Awaiting result.

  • CA14011 - Framework Agreement for the Employability Programmes in Health and Social Care Sector - The Princes Trust - Awaiting result.

  • Delivery of Subcontractor ASF (£1.39m) - Cambridge Regional College - Awaiting result.

  • Adult Skills Fund (ASF) Subcontract (£1.12m) - New College Swindon - Awaiting result.

  • Adult and Community Learning 2024-25 (£900k) - Cheshire East Borough Council - Awaiting result.

  • Adult Learning (£50k) - Buckinghamshire Council - Awaiting result.

  • Community Learning Framework (£500k) - Nottinghamshire County Council - Awaiting result.

  • Cornwall College AEB Subcontract (£502k) - Cornwall College - Awaiting result.

  • ESFA Provision for Adults (£2.4m) - Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council - Awaiting result.

  • AEB Subcontracting (£3.25m) - Inspire Education Group - Awaiting result.

  • SYMCA Adult Skills Fund (ASF) Pseudo Framework & Year 1 Call-Off (£40m) - South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority - Awaiting result.

  • NTCA/NEMCA Devolved AEB (Lots 1 and 2) (£18m) - North of Tyne Combined Authority (NTCA) - Awaiting result.

  • NCG Education Services DPS (£96m) - Newcastle College Group (NCG) - Awaiting result.

  • Provision of Adult Learning Services (£350k) - Westmorland and Furness Council - Awaiting result.

  • Suffolk Adult and Community Learning Services - Suffolk County Council - Awaiting result.

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

  • Family, Adult, and Community Learning (£150k) - Sunderland City Council. Closing - Awaiting result.

  • LCRCA AEB 2022 - 2027 - £70m - 16 awards. Contract length & start date: 5 years (01/08/2022).

  • WMCA AEB Services Contract 1 - £8.96m - 16 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2022).

  • North Hertfordshire College - AEB Subcontracting (non-devolved) - £1m - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2022).

  • Cambridgeshire County Council - AEB - Subcontracting - £400k - 11 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2022)

  • London Borough of Merton - Adult Learning Services in Merton - £1m - 11 awards. Contract length & start date: 4 years (01/08/2022).

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

  • London Borough of Merton - Merton Adult Learning Main Delivery - £4.3m - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 4 years (01/07/2022).

  • London Borough of Hackney - Adult and Community Learning Framework - £2m - Contract length & start date: 4 years (20/06/2022).

  • WMCA AEB Service Contract 2 - £1.16m - 5 awards. Contract length & start date: 15 months (20/06/2022).

  • NCG - NCG220203MC - AEB for Newcastle College - £200k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 3 months (04/05/2022).

  • South Tyneside Council Call off from Post 16 DPS - ESFA Funded AEB - £137.5k - 3 awards. Contract length & start date: 5 months (01/04/2022).

  • CPCA - Level 2 Provision - £200k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 1 year (24/03/2022).

  • Capital City College Group CA9323 - Access to Non-Devolved AEB - £400k - 2 awards. Contract length & start date: 8 months (08/12/2021).

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

  • Sheffield City Council - Adult Learning in Community Settings - £540k - 12 awards. Contract start date: 13/10/2021

  • WYCA Lot 1 - Bradford - WYCA AEB Mini Competition - £342k - 11 awards. Contract length & start date: 11 months (31/08/2021).

  • DfE AEB Procurement Contracts for Services 2021/22 - £157m - 88 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2021).

  • Nescot AEB (Age 19+) - Education & Training (Non Devolved Areas) - £378k - 1 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2021).

  • Solihull College & University Centre AEB Subcontract for Construction Skills Training - £3.36m - 1 award. Length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2021).

  • CPCA - Level 2 and Level 3 Provision - £275k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/07/2021).

  • Buckinghamshire Council Adult Learning - Approved Provider List - £747k - 11 awards. Contract length & start date: 3 years (01/08/2021).

  • North Tyneside Council - AEB Lot 3 Mini Comp - January 2021 - £346k - 4 awards. Contract length & start date: 5 months (10/03/2021).

  • Peterborough College Subcontracting Arrangements - £5.17m. Contract start date: 22/02/2021.

  • DfE Traineeships Reforms and Expansion Programme - £65.36m - 83 awards. Contract length & start date: 2.5 years (01/02/2021).

  • Nottingham College - AEB 2021 - £3.1m - 4 awards. Contract length & start date: 6.5 months (17/01/2022).

  • WMCA SWAP Consortium - £9m - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 3 years (03/10/2021).

  • NCG - NCG201007MC - AEB for West Lancashire College - £2m - 2 awards. Contract length & start date: 8 months (01/12/2020).

  • Croydon College Subcontract for AEB in Non-Devolved Areas - £250k - 1 award . Contract length & start date: 8.5 months (12/11/2020).

  • Carlisle College - NCG201001MC - AEB Training Programmes - £250k - 3 awards. Contract length & start date: 9 months (09/11/2020).

  • North Tyneside Council Framework Agreement for AEB Procured Provision - £6m - 41 awards. Contract length & start date: 3 years (01/08/2020).

  • Chesterfield College - Adult Education Training Programmes - £400k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 1 year 11 months (02/09/2019).

  • GLA AEB - £130m - 29 awards. Contract length & start date: 4 years (01/08/2019).

  • The ETF Essential Digital Skills Workforce Development Programme - £200k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 8 months (24/07/2019).

  • NCG - NCG190402MC - AEB Wind Industry for Newcastle College - £200k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 3 months (22/04/2019).

  • NCG - NCG190314MC - AEB Care Sector Training Programmes - £240k - 1 award. Contract length & start date: 4 months (02/04/2019).

  • Cambridgeshire District Councils - CPCA AEB 2019-22 - £1.95m - 5 awards. Contract length & start date: 3 years 4 months (24/03/2019).

  • DfE - AEB 2023/24 Procurement Contracts for Services - £740.7m - 54 awards. Contract length & start date: 12 months (with option to extend by up to 3x 12 month periods) (01/08/2023).

  • Cambridge Regional College - Delivery of Subcontractor AEB - ESFA Non-Devolved Areas 2023-2024 - £1.1m - 2 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2023).

  • New College Swindon - Sub-contract delivery of Adult Education Budget (AEB) Programmes - £1.04m - 3 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (01/08/2023).

  • GMCA Devolved AEB - Academic Year 23/24 - £21.42m - 20 awards. Contract length & start date: 1 year (2023/24 academic year).

  • GMCA - Adult Skills Level 3 Targeted Offer - £4.92m - 10 awards. Contract length & start date: 10 months (September 2023).