2022-001244

Request

Please can you help with answering the following questions as per the turnaround time suggested on your website?

For the Financial year 2021/22 please confirm whether your organisation purchased any training from the below Training Providers together with the value of the training purchased.

Elite Training & Consultancy

Global Knowledge

Indicia Training

QA Ltd

The Knowledge Academy

Which of the below training areas did you purchase and what was the value purchased for each area?

Agile & Scrum

Business Analysis

Data Analytics

Enterprise Architecture

Cyber Security

IT Service Management

Lean/Lean Six Sigma

Project & Programme Management

Software Testing

Technical IT Training

If you did purchased training in any of the areas listed in question 2, but not via Elite Training & Consultancy/Global Knowledge/Indicia Training/QA Ltd or The Knowledge Academy which training provider did you purchase from and what was the total value of the training purchased? Please also confirm the training area purchased together with a breakdown of spend in each area.
Did your organisation purchase any digital learning subscription licences in Financial Year 2021/22 from any of the below digital learning platforms? If the answer is yes how many licences did you purchase and what was the total value of the purchase?

A Cloud Guru

CBT Nuggets

Cloud Academy

LinkedIn Learning

Plural Sight

What are your organisations procurement rules around purchasing training and how do these change when certain value thresholds are reached, see examples below.

under £5,000 - 1 quote,

over £5,000 but under £10,000 - 3 quotes required

over £10,000 – 5 quotes via an open procurement exercise

over £20,000 – full tender exercise

Does your organisation use any of the below public sector procurement frameworks to procure training and if so which one/s? Please also confirm the value of training purchased from each framework in relation to the training areas listed in question 2.

Crown Commercial Service Dynamic Purchasing Service (DPS)

G Cloud 12

ESPO

Scottish Government Project Management Framework

If you use an alternative procurement framework to procure training in the training areas listed in question 2 which framework do you use?
Do you have a competency framework in place? If yes, which department manages this. If no, is there a central training function, if yes, where does this report to?
Is the expectation that budget will be made available for training, if yes what value?