Published date: 28 May 2025

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


Closing: 10 March 2025, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Primary education services - 80100000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£76,000

Procurement reference

tender_480906/1485228

Published date

28 May 2025

Closing date

10 March 2025

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

28 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Medium Level Support (MLS) is a strand of support offered to schools via the English Hub programme. MLS is a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) offer which includes targeted support, CPD programmes and workshops. Some MLS is directed at specific local needs but there are also a small number of 'centralised' programmes which each target a more widespread need and represent a consistent offer delivered across all 34 hubs. 

The supplier will design and develop a quality, evidence-based centralised MLS programme on reading fluency, for delivery by the English Hubs from Autumn term 2025. The CPD will comprise 6 sessions, delivered across a minimum of two terms of the academic year focussed on increasing subject knowledge in reading fluency, and providing teachers with practical, evidence based classroom techniques and strategies they can take back and implement in their classrooms to improve pupil's reading fluency.   This CPD to be targeted towards teachers in later KS2 after the majority of children have successfully completed their Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme and can accurately decode. The supplier will also be designing and delivering 'train the trainer' sessions to prepare facilitators from English Hubs to begin delivery of the CPD from Autumn term 2025.

The contract began on 28 April 2025 and will run until the end of the financial year, 31 March 2026.

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

15 May 2025

Contract start date

28 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Total value of contract

£76,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Herts for Learning Limited

Address

Bank House Ground Floor, North Wing, Primett Road, Stevenage, Herts, England, SG1 3EE

Reference

Companies House number: 08419581

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

englishhubs.policy@education.gov.uk