Published date: 19 July 2019

Last edited date: 19 July 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 19 January 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£3,502,595 to £6,000,000

Procurement reference

RD1001580

Published date

19 July 2019

Closing date

19 January 2018

Contract start date

1 June 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2021

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?

No

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 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. 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 a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years taking the maximum term to 5 years

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

12 April 2018

Contract start date

1 June 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2021

Total value of contract

£3,502,595

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

TRIBAL EDUCATION LIMITED

Address

Kings Orchard, One Queen Street
BS2 0HQ
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 04163300

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street,
London,
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

npq.reform@education.gov.uk