Published date: 8 September 2017

This notice was replaced on 23 January 2018

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 15 October 2018, last edited 15 October 2018)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£160,000

Procurement reference

NAAS

Published date

8 September 2017

Closing date

29 September 2017

Contract start date

30 November 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2018

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?

No

Description

The Government is committed to the rollout of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) for child and family social workers. We require a robustly validated bank of content with which we can carry out high quality assessments of social workers during rollout.
The contract will seek contractor(s) to complete the content generation process for NAAS assessment by rigorously validating general and applied knowledge content and collating all assessment material into eight test sets for use

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About the buyer

Contact name

Thomasin Freeman

Address

1st Floor, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

VALIDATIONTENDER.NAAS@education.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education