Published date: 16 November 2023
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Awarded contract (published 10 January 2025)
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Contract summary
Industry
Education and training services - 80000000
Location of contract
East Midlands
Value of contract
£250,000,000
Procurement reference
NOTTSCC001-DN694393-27248066
Published date
16 November 2023
Closing date
20 December 2023
Closing time
4:30pm
Contract start date
1 April 2024
Contract end date
31 March 2029
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?
No
Description
Nottinghamshire County Council ('the Council') are running an open tender process to establish a new framework under which the Council are looking to commission Independent non-maintained special schools (INMSS) and Post-16 (where the provision is delivered in house by the school) for the provision of specialist school placements for pupils who are not attending mainstream or maintained schools and who have an Education Health Care (EHC) Plan.
The establishment of a framework agreement for INMSS is the first phase of the recommissioning of the Specialist Education provision for the Council as set out in the Vision document. Ultimately the framework will be extended to include Alternative Education Provision and Post-16 institutions (e.g., further education colleges that are not part of the INMSS), that will be the second/third phases of the recommissioning project and new procurement processes will be run at later dates which are yet to be decided.
A Framework Agreement is an agreement between the contracting authority and one or more Service Providers, the purpose of which is to establish the terms governing contracts to be awarded during a given period.
This initial phase of the framework will have two lots under which the Council can make specialist school placements. In Lot 1 commissioners will put in place block contracts with providers and Lot 2 will see the establishment of an approved provider list.
The Framework Agreement will commence from the 1st of April 2024, "call-off" contracts under Lot 2 may commence from the 1st of April 2024, however the earliest date "call-off" contracts can commence under Lot 1 is the 1st of September 2024.
There is potential to extend this Framework Agreement for up to a further 6 years in increments of 24 months.
Please read all the tender documents. If you have any questions, please submit them through
the procurement portal using the messaging facility.
To register your interest in this tender and to view the tender documents, the tender is
published on https://www.eastmidstenders.org/
Reference DN694393
The closing date for all tenders is the 20th of December 2023 at 16:30.
Please note that a standstill period of 10 days will commence from the notification of the
contract award.
About the buyer
Contact name
Katie Greenhalgh
Address
County Hall
Loughborough Road Westbridgford
Nottinghamshire
NG2 7QP
United Kingdom
Telephone
+44 1159774761
katie.greenhalgh@nottscc.gov.uk
Website
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