Barry College

Profile:

Barry College is a Further Education College, based in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

The College has approximately 500 staff that cater for around 9,000 learners per year. Approximately 2,000 of these learners are full-time, whilst the remainder study on part-time day, part-time evening and flexi-study programmes. The College also offers an increasing number of e-learning programmes, where individuals can learn via computers from any location across the world.

The College has a successful Business Services Unit who run bespoke courses for business and industry. It also has a subsidiary company, the Vale of Glamorgan Training Association (VGTA) that is responsible for the Work Based Learning (WBL) contract for the College.

The College has gross income in excess of £18m and annual non pay expenditure of around £5m.

Tendering Thresholds:

Where possible the College utilises the Welsh Further Education Purchasing Consortium (WFEPC) and other public sector consortium contracts.

The College undertakes formal tenders for works contrracts in excess of £50,000 and services contracts in excess of £25,000.