Tax Academy Apprenticeship

HMRC is investigating the available options for introducing apprenticeships for tax professionals in the department. As the Level 4 apprenticeship standard for a Professional Accounting/Tax Technician (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-standard-professional-accounting-technician) has been approved for delivery, HMRC would like to gather more information about training providers’ plans for delivering this standard in general.

Any training delivery for HMRC would be likely to involve large annual cohorts of apprentices who would be based across the UK, potentially in the following locations – Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol, Stratford and Croydon. In terms of numbers we would be interested to hear what you could offer for 500-1000 and 1000+ apprentices per annum.

Aim / overall objective

HMRC is seeking information which will allow us to make an informed choice about whether, and how, to proceed with a requirement for training organisation support for level 4 apprenticeships for tax professionals.

In particular, we would like to establish: • The number of providers in the market currently capable of offering the new level 4 standard • Which providers are planning to offer the new level 4 standard in the future and when • Which providers might be considering offering both the examination and the work experience route • If the work experience route is available from external providers, how they see this working in practice • Which providers could potentially meet our needs in terms of the likely numbers of apprentices • Which providers are planning to be end point assessors

Additional information: Ariba registration and access to questions

In order to respond to this Request for Information suppliers will need to sign up as a supplier on the SAP Ariba system; further information about HMRC’s instance of SAP Ariba, a Suppliers Guide and general information about supplying to HMRC is available on the HMRC website: www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/supplying.htm

If you are using HMRC’s instance of SAP Ariba for the first time, even if you are already registered on the wider SAP Ariba supplier network, will need to register at http://hmrc.supplier-eu.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full (You must ensure that you are directed to the registration page for HMRC’s instance of SAP Ariba, with the HMRC logo at the top of the page, and to do this you may need to cut and paste the web address directly into your web browser)

As part of the registration process you will receive a system generated email asking you to activate your SAP Ariba supplier account by verifying your email address. Once you have completed the activation process you will receive a further email by return confirming the ‘registration process is now complete’ and providing you with ‘your organisation’s account ID’ number.

If an email response from HMRC is not received within one working day of your request, please re-contact [email protected] (after first checking your spam in-box) notifying non-receipt and confirming when your registration request was first made.

Once you have registered and have an account ID’ number, please email [email protected] no later than 12:00 on 3rd November 2016 with the following information as confirmation that you wish to express an interest for the opportunity described in this Notice quoting:

The contract reference shown in Section II.1.1 of this Notice Your organization’s HMRC SAP Ariba account ID: ‘AN…’ Your organisation’s name: Your name: Your email address: Your telephone number:

You will then receive an email confirming access to the online questionnaires and any other information.