Published date: 29 November 2024

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: 20 December 2024, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Primary education services - 80100000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£70,000

Procurement reference

STA-0333

Published date

29 November 2024

Closing date

20 December 2024

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 March 2025

Contract end date

1 March 2027

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

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to procure a pool of independent technical experts to provide expertise and considered advice to STA to ensure rigorous scrutiny of the technical aspects of the Assessment Research and Development division's processes and procedures.

STA requires individuals with strong knowledge, expertise and working experience within the field of psychometric practices within the field of education.

The experts will be required to provide technical feedback and technical expertise on a number of operational queries, and research proposals on the aspects of the test development cycle. The experts may also be asked to share their expertise in specific areas more generally as well as in response to specific queries. Areas will include, but not be limited to, expertise in item response theory in an operational context, large-scale assessment with an emphasis on the analysis of matrix sampling methodology, performance assessment and conducting validity studies in an operational context.

STA will select the top 10 bidders based on the list of areas above. The decision will be based on evidence of these in the professional experience section of the Curriculum Vitae (CV) that bidders will be required to submit as part of this tender process.

We estimate that each person will be required between 1 - 5 days each year, although this may increase if we are not able to procure all the experts we require or if some are not available for review windows.



The successful experts must:
- have strong knowledge, experience and expertise
- be flexible and available to review materials remotely in a secure location
- have the capacity to meet the requirements set out in this ITT.




Please note that the closing date for all bids is 20 December 2024 at 17:00 and any clarification questions must be received no later than 11 December 2024 at 12:00.

For more information, please see the invitation to tender (ITT) for the Technical Advisory Group which is attached to this webpage. This sets out the full specification of requirements and bidding process.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

James Heathcote

Address

Cheylesmore House
COVENTRY
CV12WT
England

Email

TendersTD.STA@education.gov.uk