Sourcing Your Apprenticeship Training Providers-Sourcing-Your-Apprenticeship-Training-Providers

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Louise Brown from Bidfood explains how to approach apprenticeship and levy campaigning like a procurement process. She stresses defining business essentials and desirable extras by consulting stakeholders across the organisation, including apprentices, managers, and leadership. Key factors include quality, cost, logistics, long-term development, technology, and people. She emphasizes that everything should be measurable from the start, because if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.  <br /><br />She then outlines a sourcing funnel: pre-qualification with an RFI, qualification and NDAs, an RFP for detailed proposals, and finally contract award and negotiation. She advises clear agreements with SLAs, KPIs, data protection, termination rights, and intellectual property terms. After implementation, providers should be continuously reviewed and challenged to ensure ongoing value, performance, and alignment with business needs.

Keywords

apprenticeship procurement

levy campaigning

stakeholder consultation

sourcing funnel

provider performance review