Published date: 12 June 2018

Last edited date: 12 June 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 22 June 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

1526

Published date

12 June 2018

Closing date

22 June 2018

Contract start date

1 September 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The purpose of this procurement is to Tender for up to two organisations to work with the Department to design, organise and deliver at least 20 local Phonics Roadshows before 31 March 2019.

There are two contracts ("Lot A" and "Lot B") available, each to deliver at least 10 local Roadshows to a minimum of 400 teachers.

• The contract for Lot A will be to deliver these Roadshows in the north of England (a list of local authority areas in the north of England can be found in attachment 6).
• The contract for Lot B will cover the rest of England outside of the north.

We are looking to award the contracts to up to two Tenderers. A provider can bid for both contracts if they wish, and should they meet the requirements and win the competitive process for both they could be awarded both contracts.

Funding of up to £50,000 including VAT is available in 2018-19 for each contract, £100,000 including VAT in total to support this work.
These events should be designed to promote effective teaching of systematic synthetic phonics in reception and key stage 1 (including the transition between these phases).

The events should, in total, target a minimum of 800 teachers and school leaders (an average of 40 per event, but each event must be attended by a minimum of 15).

The exact location of Roadshows is to be agreed with the Department for Education but bids should demonstrate an understanding of the areas where the bidder thinks that the Roadshows are needed - for example, areas where results in the phonics screening check are low and districts in Category 5 and 6 achieving excellence areas. Details of these areas can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defining-achieving-excellence-areas-methodology.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

***New on 12th June 2018 - Please note that the Cyber Essentials requirements in the tender documentation ("DOCUMENT 2 DEPARTMENTAL STANDARD REQUIREMENTS", pts. 5-12) have been amended. Please disregard pts. 8-11 in this section, referring to ISO27001 certification.

The Cyber Essentials certification is required as a condition of contract award.

For avoidance of doubt it is NOT A REQUIREMENT for a Tenderer to have achieved ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management Systems Requirements) certification as a condition of contract award.

Because of this change, we have also decided to EXTEND THE DEADLINE for tenders to 12:00 (midday) on Friday 22 June. ***

Tenderers will need to submit their tenders by the latest of 12:00 (midday) on 22 June 2018 by email to English.IMPLEMENTATION@education.gov.uk with the subject, 'Phonics Roadshow Tender'.

Please submit Responses in Word or .pdf format. Note that there is a word limit for your response to Section 3 (below) of 2,500 words (excluding cost and reach tables).

Please submit a separate Response for each Lot being applied for, and clearly mark on each Response whether the Response is in respect of Lot A (to deliver Roadshows in the north of England) or Lot B (to deliver Roadshows in England outside the north).

Tenderers should present their proposals in the following format (all attachments and documents below are in the Phonics Roadshow Invitation to tender document on this page):

Section 1 Table of Contents
Section 2 Management Summary
Section 3 Meeting the Specification - as part of this you will need to complete and include both the cost and reach matrices in attachment 2 (refer to the specification in document 3 and note the evaluation criteria in attachment 2)
Section 4 References and Experience
Section 5 Form of Tender (see Document 5)
Section 6 Declarations, Undertakings and Attachments (see Document 6)

About the buyer

Contact name

Ed Moseley

Address

Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

English.IMPLEMENTATION@education.gov.uk