The next freeze date for the Skills Funding Agency QPF is 10 September 2010.

This is to accommodate the launch of ACTOR, the Approved College and Training Organisation Register, which is replacing the QPF from October 2010.

ACTOR is a single stage process with fewer questions and multiple-choice answers covering both the pre-qualifying stage and the programmes and provision offer.

This will mean that, once colleges and training organisations are registered on ACTOR, they can be considered for new contracted provision without the need for individual tenders.

No providers should be disadvantaged by this change.

Providers who have been told that they were successfully registered on the QPF and have refreshed their pre-qualifying documents on BRAVO since 11 September 2009 need do nothing until after ACTOR goes live during October 2010.

Providers successfully registered on the QPF that have not refreshed their pre-qualifying documents via BRAVO since 11 September 2009 should do so before 10 September 2010.

Failure to do so will mean that they cannot be automatically migrated across to ACTOR.

Organisations that have previously been unsuccessful in their application for registration on the QPF should wait until ACTOR is launched in October to apply for registration.

Once ACTOR is available, all providers migrated to ACTOR will have to enter ACTOR before 31 December 2010 and respond to questions raised regarding the programmes and provision for which they wish to be considered for funding.