Published date: 21 July 2016

Last edited date: 18 November 2016

This notice was replaced on 21 July 2016

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

Awarded contract (published 16 January 2019, last edited 16 January 2019)

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.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£95,000,000 to £225,000,000

Procurement reference

1353

Published date

21 July 2016

Closing date

23 August 2016

Contract start date

1 September 2017

Contract end date

16 January 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The STA was set-up as an executive agency of the Department for Education (DfE) in October 2011. The purpose of the STA is to develop and administer National Curriculum Assessments (NCAs) and assessments in England as part of the government's agenda to raise educational standards through structural change, school improvement strategies, and a rigorous accountability framework where tests in the core subjects, currently at the end of Year 6 form an important measure of children's long-term education and life chances. The outcomes of the NCAs are published annually at an individual school level in the School Performance Tables by government and are an important factor in parental choice of schools.

The current NCAs are Key Stage 1 ("KS1") and Key Stage 2 ("KS2") tests in the core subjects of English and Mathematics, and the KS1 Phonics Screening Check ("PSC"). The tests are sat by the full cohort of pupils, currently 580,593 in 15,500 state schools in England.

The successful economic operator will be required to undertake activities required for the successful delivery of all NCAs. This will include: printing; the logistics associated with securely delivering test papers and other materials to participating schools; collecting and distributing tests scripts to markers; the successful completion of onscreen marking of the NCAs within a defined time frame; and to deliver all support required by participating schools for their successful administration of the NCAs.

See 'Attachments' (links) for the full version of the original advert and also the recent corrigendum which includes all the changes to the procurement process published in Tenders Electronic Daily.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Test Operations Services (TOpS)

  • Opportunity
  • Published 21 October 2015

Attachments

Links

Additional text

See Attachments for the Tenders Electronic Daily corrigendum for a summary of all the changes.

See Links for the Tenders Electronic Daily original advert.

About the buyer

Address

Department for Education, Standards and Testing Agency, Earlsdon Park, 53-55 Butts Road
Coventry
CV1 3BH
England

Email

FutureOperating.MODEL@education.gsi.gov.uk