Published date: 19 March 2018

Last edited date: 19 March 2018

This notice was replaced on 14 December 2018

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

Awarded contract (published 14 December 2018)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£30,500,000 to £40,140,000

Procurement reference

STA0166

Published date

19 March 2018

Closing date

20 March 2018

Contract start date

14 June 2018

Contract end date

14 June 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

STA wish to re-establish a Trialling and Sampling Framework to carry out trials and sampling exercises for a range of DfE assessments. The new framework will be established by mid-2018 and will operate for a maximum of four years.

Each year, around 560,000 children who have reached the end of key stage 1 and key stage 2, participate in a range of National Curriculum Tests (NCTs) (and from 2016 onwards, a similar number of pupils at the end of key stage 1 will also participate in National Curriculum Tests), and around 35,000 skills tests are sat each year. Each potential test item and complete test is trialled with an appropriate target candidate.

The required services include (but are not limited to):
GENERAL
• Project Management
• Management Information
• Security
• Equalities
• Business Continuity
• Financial Requirements
• Resources
• Quality Assurance
• Exit and Transition

TECHNICAL
• Recruitment and management of schools and test centres
• Recruitment, training and management of administrators
• Recruitment, training and management of markers/coders
• Collection and distribution of assessment instruments
• Secure administration of tests in schools and test centres
• Test and pupil / candidate data handling
• Trial and sample admin reports
• Desktop Publishing
• Printing
• Marking/coding of test scripts
• Management of scripts during marking/coding
• Data capture and management
• Return of results

More information

Attachments

Additional text

The total value of the work over four years is expected to be between £30,500,000 and £40,140,000

About the buyer

Contact name

James Heathcote

Address

53-55 Butts Road, Earlsdon Park,
Coventry
CV13BH
England

Email

james.heathcote@education.gov.uk