Published date: 12 October 2022

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: 10 November 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

  • Primary education services - 80100000

  • Secondary education services - 80200000

    • Higher education services - 80300000

    • Youth education services - 80310000

    • Special education services - 80340000

    • E-learning services - 80420000

    • Training services - 80500000

Location of contract

Any region, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

Value of contract

£600,000

Procurement reference

tender_319112/1113536

Published date

12 October 2022

Closing date

10 November 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

3 January 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

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

MaPS is making £1.45m available funding over the current and subsequent financial years - £600,000 in 22/23 and £850,000 in 23/24. to support projects that develop and test approaches to improving the provision of financial education in schools and for children and young people in vulnerable circumstances.

The funding will be made available as award of Grants in 2 Lots:
Lot 1 - scale and embed training and support for teachers (and other practitioners in educational settings) in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland (Teacher Training)
Lot 2 - improve financial education for children and young people in vulnerable circumstances across all nations of the UK (practitioner training and targeted provision for children and young people in vulnerable circumstances).

Potential Audiences:
- School governors, Academy trustees and leadership teams of Multi-Academy Trusts
- School leaders and their senior team
- Subject leaders or curriculum leads for financial education or other relevant subjects
- Classroom teachers across a variety of subjects and phases
- Other school staff including those providing pastoral support and careers education
- Local authorities
- School improvement bodies and networks.

Successful bidders will be required to work collaboratively with MaPS and our Strategic Evaluation Partner to support the evaluation of projects funded through this programme. This will include requirements to assist with data collection and the development of key findings and insights.

It is expected that projects will commence in early January 2023 and run to end March 2024, including development and evaluation.

Further details are contained within the Grants Application pack available from the MaPS e-sourcing portal Jaggaer located at https://maps.app.jaggaer.com/ (Reference: 22-138G) and Find a Grant site: https://www.find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/. Registration on the Jaggaer sourcing portal is required.

MaPs will hold a clarification meeting on the 18 October 2022 10am via Microsoft Teams. If you would like to attend, please send a request via the messaging function of the Jaggaer portal.


More information

Additional text

To access this Opportunity, please visit the MaPS eProcurement Portal and register as a Supplier, if you are not already registered.
You will then be able to see the Opportunity notice, which will allow you to register your interest and view the associated documents.
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MaPS eProcurement Portal
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https://maps.app.jaggaer.com/


About the buyer

Contact name

Commercial team

Address

120 Holborn
London
EC1N 2TD
England

Email

commercial@maps.org.uk

Website

www.maps.org.uk