Published date: 5 December 2017
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Contract summary
Industry
Education and training services - 80000000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£6,000,000 to £10,000,000
Procurement reference
tender_159735/637113
Published date
5 December 2017
Closing date
19 January 2018
Contract start date
12 March 2018
Contract end date
12 March 2021
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The Department is undertaking a procurement exercise to deliver quality assurance for the National Professional Qualifications (NPQs).
NPQs are a suite of professional development programmes designed to ensure participants have the knowledge and skills they need to become effective school leaders. The department has recently reformed the NPQs, better to prepare new leaders for the wider range of leadership roles available in the education system. The reformed NPQs will be introduced in Academic Year 17/18 and delivered by 41 organisations that have been accredited by the DfE.
We want the reformed NPQs to be grounded in the best available evidence and recognised as the gold standard for teachers' professional development. We are therefore seeking to partner with an organisation with the authority and expertise to establish this gold standard. The selected organisation (the 'QA Agent') will be responsible for quality assuring and improving NPQ provision throughout England through a range of activities. These include regularly gathering evidence on providers' performance, carrying out in-depth inspections of providers and moderating participants' assessment projects, in order to assess and improve providers' performance.
The requirement is for a single national provider (or consortium) to provide quality assurance to National Professional Qualifications throughout England (for avoidance of doubt this excludes the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands). This will entail delivery of the following services:
• Regular monitoring and improvement of NPQ providers' performance
• Undertaking detailed performance reviews of providers
• Moderating a sample of participants' assessment projects
• Continuous improvement of NPQ provision
• Partnership working with NPQ providers, participants and DfE
• Regular reporting of management information and analysis on the quality of NPQ provision
• Maintaining good governance arrangements
The contract is for three years inclusive of set up, mobilisation and exit, with an option to extend for two further years if required. It is anticipated that a contract will be awarded in March 2018 and the provider should be able to mobilise themselves quickly in order to commence service delivery on 7 May 2018.
This procurement exercise is being hosted on the Department for Educations e-procurement portal Bravo Solutions. To register your interest and access the tender documents please visit https://education.bravosolution.co.uk.
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