Published date: 7 September 2023

Last edited date: 10 October 2023

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 16 October 2023

Contract summary

Industry

  • Pre-school education services - 80110000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£33,083

Procurement reference

NCEY

Published date

7 September 2023

Approach to market date

16 October 2023

Contract start date

13 November 2023

Contract end date

29 March 2024

Procedure type

Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This PIN is for market engagement only. It does not signify the commencement of any procurement process and does not constitute any commitment by the Department for Education. If the Department for Education decides to commence any procurement process as contemplated by this notice, a separate notice will be published at the relevant time. The requirements and values set out below may be subject to change.**THIS PIN NOTICE IS TO NOTIFY SUPPLIERS OF A POTENTIAL UPCOMING REQUIREMENT THAT WILL BE ADVERTISED THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION - Educational and Children's Social Care Professionals DPS (ECSC DPS)**

**THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION**

To tender for this work and to be eligible to bid, you must be fully registered in advance on the Department for Educations e-procurement system Jaggaer and must successfully gain membership onto the ECSC DPS by 10th October 2023. Please note it can take 5-7 days after registration is submitted to gain membership. Further information and how to register can be found in the 'Additional Text' section of this PIN.

Evidence tells us that healthy nutritious food is vital to allow children to learn and develop positively.

The Department for Education (DfE) intends to undertake a procurement exercise to appoint a suitably experienced organisation, or individual, to develop high-quality comprehensive online 'Nutrition' content to support practitioners to understand and fulfil the requirement within the Early Years Foundation Stage framework that states: 'Where children are provided with meals, snacks and drinks, they must be healthy, balanced and nutritious'.

The successful bidder will utilise their expertise and understanding of early years nutrition and the early years sector to fulfil a number of activities. This will include producing printable recipe cards, videos and images to support the written content, to make it accessible and engaging for the intended audience.

The DfE will be holding a market engagement event on Thursday 21st September, 11:00 - 12:00. If you wish to attend the market engagement event, you must register for the event via the registration page. The registration page can be accessed by using the link below. The event will be held via Microsoft Teams.

https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/yXfS-grGoU2187O4s0qC-Q,81obNWmdWU2MhQNzKPwcTA,rHuqwJqb_U6eHt6kr96XfA,WDxT5-ZtR0KGWoeH4sceVA,ap_uaUy090q5wsBWtOjFrw,WI9NlgY7TUSSKPDfM5O1KQ?mode=read&tenantId=fad277c9-c60a-4da1-b5f3-b3b8b34a82f9

The Procurement will be run using the DfE - Educational and Children's Social Care Professionals Dynamic Purchasing System (ECSC DPS) via the DfE e-procurement system Jaggaer.

Links

• Jaggaer e-Procurement Portal Registration
o https://education.app.jaggaer.com
• JAGGAER - ECSC DPS Supplier Registration Guidance
o https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/eb9ac94d-4d92-473b-ad03-f2f7d668de30
• DfE Nutrition content - Market Engagement event registration

More information

Spend profile

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Financial year Budget
2023/2024 £33,083

Attachments

Additional text

The Procurement will be run using the Department for Education - Education and Children's Social Care Dynamic Purchasing System (ECSC DPS) via the Department for Education e-procurement system Jaggaer.

This opportunity will be published under the categories :

ECSC13 Operational development and delivery
ECSC15 Individual who can write content that supports operational delivery in the education sector
ECSC21 Individual(s) with subject specific expertise that can be used to assess, support the creation/development and advise on delivery and operation of National Curriculum Subject Matter Experts for Early Years Foundation through to Key Stage 5, and Further Education settings covering technical and applied qualifications

To tender for this work and to be eligible to bid, you must:
• register in advance
• be fully registered on the Department for Educations e-procurement system Jaggaer
• successfully gain membership onto the ECSC DPS in one of the above Categories by 10th October 2023. Please note that it may take 5-7 working days from application submission to being fully registered.
Bidders who are not already registered on the portal can register here: https://education.app.jaggaer.com and sign up to the Dynamic Purchasing System.

Please read and follow the steps as outlined in the guidance attached to submit your application to join the Department for Education ECSC DPS via Jaggaer.

For any assistance required in registering please contact the Jaggaer helpdesk: help_UK@jaggaer.com

This notice is a zero value PIN notice to initiate pre-market engagement. It is for information only and is not a call for competition. This PIN is intended to inform the market of a potential future procurement exercise to appoint a supplier to work with the Department for Education on providing the outlined service.

The Department for Education reserves the right not to enter a formal procurement process and not proceed with contract award. Accordingly, the Department for Education will not be liable for any bid cost, expenditure, work, or effort incurred by any organisation in acting on the basis of this Prior Information Notice.

All information included in this notice is indicative and subject to change and is neither exhaustive nor binding. The Department for Education reserves the right at its absolute discretion to amend it at the time of issue of any further notices or at any other time.

About the buyer

Address

Piccadilly Gate,Store Street
MANCHESTER
M12WD
England

Email

EOI.EYNutrition@education.gov.uk