Select Committee on Public Accounts Minutes of Evidence


Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Learning and Skills Council

Question 56 (Mr Richard Bacon): FE colleges who are not members of consortia

             
English Colleges not members of
Educational consoria as at April 2007
Spend with OGC
2006-07
Learning And Skills Council
College Name Region   Comment Address
East Anglia
Barnfield College EA £20,691 New Bedford Road College Centre; Enterprise Way Luton LU2 7BF
Luton Sixth Form College EA Bradgers Hill Road Luton LU2 7EW
Milton Keynes College EA Chaffron Way Centre Milton Keynes MK6 5LP
North Hertfordshire College EA £51,364 Monkswood Way Stevenage SG1 1LA
Paston College EA Use ESPO Grammar School Road North Walsham NR28 9JL
Seevic College EA Runnymede Chase Benfleet SS7 1TW
Sixth Form College Colchester EA North Hill Colchester CO1 1SN
South East Essex College EA £290,473 Luker Road Southend on Sea SS1 1ND
West Herts College EA £2,004 Hempstead Road Watford WD1 3EZ
East Midlands
Brooksby Melton College EM £1,039 Brooksby Melton Mowbray LE14 2LJ
Gateway Sixth Form College EM The Newarke Leicester LE2 7BY
Henley College Coventry EM £3,239 Deanfield Avenue Henley on Thames RG9 1UH
Moulton College EM £7,099 West Street Moulton NN3 7RR
New College Nottingham EM £440,502 OGC for Energy Stoney Street Nottingham NG1 1NG
South East Derbyshire College EM £3,266 Use Derbys CC for Energy Field Road Ilkeston DE7 5RS
Stephenson College EM £261,713 Bridge Road Coalville LE67 3PW
Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College EM £1,405 University Road Leicester LE1 7RJ
London
Capel Manor College L £94,834 Bullsmoor Lane Enfield EN1 4RQ
City of Westminster College L £50,218 25 Paddington Green London W2 1NB
College of North West London L £72,783 Dudden Hill Lane London NW10 2XD
Sir George Monoux College L £336 Chingford Road Walthamstow E17 5AA
Spelthorne College L Church Road Ashford TW15 2XD
St Dominic's Sixth Form College L Mount Park Avenue Harrow-on-Hill HA1 3HX
North East
Darlington College Of Technology NE £6,043 Cleveland Avenue Darlington DL3 7BB
North West
Ashton Under Lyne Sixth Form College NW Darnton Road Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 9RL
Barrow In Furness Sixth Form College NW £965 Rating Lane Barrow-in-Furness LA13 9LE
Riverside College Halton NW £9,368 Kingsway Widnes WA8 7QQ
King George V College NW £11,018 Scarisbrick New Road Southport PR8 6LR
Knowsley Community College NW £8,853 Rupert Road Roby L36 9TD
South East
Alton College SE Hampshire 6th Form College Alton Hampshire GU34 2LX
Barton Peveril College SE Hampshire 6th Form College Chestnut Avenue Eastleigh SO50 5ZA
Basingstoke College of Technology SE £1,823 Worting Road Basingstoke RG21 8TN
Bexhill College SE £11,070 Henland Road Bexhill on Sea TN40 2JG
Bexley College SE £4,233 Tower Road Belvedere DA17 6JA
Bracknell and Wokingham College SE £1,184 Church Road Bracknell RG12 1DJ
Canterbury College SE £220,426 New Dover Road Canterbury CT1 3AJ
Carshalton College SE £2,364 Nightingale Road Carshalton SM5 2EJ
Cricklade College SE £807 merging with Sparsholt at present Charlton Road Andover SP10 1EJ
Eastleigh College SE £33,649 Chestnut Avenue Eastleigh SO50 5FS
Fareham College SE £32,350 Bishopsfield Road Fareham PO14 1NH
Farnham College SE £833 Morley Road Farnham GU9 8LU
Godalming College SE £948 Tuesley Lane Godalming GU7 1RS
Havant College SE £1,992 Hampshire 6th Form College New Road Havant PO9 1QL
Havering Sixth Form College SE £3,556 Hampshire 6th Form College Ardleigh Green Road Hornchurch
Itchen College SE Hampshire 6th Form College Middle Road Southampton SO19 7TB
Palmer's College SE £9,112 Chadwell Road Grays
Queen Mary's College SE £7,887 Hampshire 6th Form College Cliddesden Road Basingstoke RG21 3HF
Ruskin College SE Walton Street Oxford OX1 2HE
Southampton City College SE St Mary's Street Southampton SO14 1AR
Sparsholt College SE Sparsholt Winchester SO21 2NF
Thanet College SE £79,075 Ramsgate Road Broadstairs CT10 1PN
The Sixth Form College Farnborough SE £47,006 Hampshire 6th Form College Prospect Avenue Farnborough GU14 8JX
Totton College SE Hampshire 6th Form College Water Lane Southampton SO40 3ZX
South West
Cirencester College SW £1,196 Stroud Way Cirencester GL7 1XA
St. Brendan's Sixth Form College SW Broomhill Road Bristol BS4 5RQ
Swindon College SW £81,617 Regent Circus Swindon SN1 1PT
West Midlands
Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies WM £10,931 Summer Row Birmingham B3 1JB
Bournville College of Futher Education WM £136,558 Dowland Close Birmingham B38 8QT
Ludlow College WM £1,436 Mill Street Ludlow SY8 1GU
North East
Worcestershire College WM £171,888 Peakman Street Bromsgrove B60 1PQ
Pershore Group of Colleges WM £33 Pershore Campus Pershore WR10 3JP
Sandwell College WM £259,072 Smethwick Campus Smethwick B66 3BU
South Birmingham College WM £4,690 Cole Bank Rd Hall Green B28 8ES
Stourbridge College WM £14,162 Hagley Road Stourbridge DY8 1QU
Tamworth & Lichfield College WM Croft Street Tamworth B79 8AG
Telford College of Arts & Technology WM £2,770 Haybridge Road Telford TF1 2NP
Yorkshire & Humberside
Dearne Valley College YS £5,500 Manvers Park Rotherham S63 7EW
Dewsbury College YS £31,728 Halifax Road Dewsbury WF13 2AS
John Leggott Sixth Form College YS £338 West Common Lane Scunthorpe DN17 1DS
Longley Park Sixth Form College YS Horninglow Road Sheffield S5 6SE
Northern College YS Wentworth College Barnsley S75 3ET
Notre Dame Sixth Form College YS St Mark's Avenue Leeds LS2 9BL
Wilberforce College YS £3,607 Salthouse Road Hull HU8 9HD
Yorkshire Coast College YS Lady Edith's Drive Scarborough YO12 5RN
Outstanding in England 75

Educational Consortia included Crescent FE Purchasing Consortium and the University Consortia
Derived from information provided by Crescent and University consortia and OGC Buying Solutions.
Hampshire 6th form colleges do collaborate to purchase some commodities.
ESPO = Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation.

Points to note:

    —  The LSC FE procurement development team is contacting each of the colleges listed to discuss reasons for non-membership and identify the opportunities which could accrue from membership. This also includes advice on collaborative Energy procurement which was mentioned at the hearing.

    —  The team is working with the consortia and colleges to increase the usage of available contracts as membership is only the starting point. All colleges have opportunities to increase use of consortia contracts.

    —  The LSC team has started working with colleges on a Price Benchmarking programme to compare local deals with consortia contracts. The resulting data is used to evidence the benefits of changing to consortia arrangements or where local arrangements are found to be better provide feedback to the consortia that they should seek to improve their arrangements.

    —  Some colleges do use local authority or OGCbuying.solutions contracts for some commodities, where this is known this is identified.

    —  The LSC team has established 19 regional procurement network groups. The team is encouraging and supporting colleges to procure collaboratively commodities not covered by consortia contracts. Examples include Waste and Recycling services in the West Midlands and Electronic Document storage for the Midlands and South Yorkshire groups.





 
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