Published date: 31 January 2025

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: 3 March 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

  • Primary education services - 80100000

  • Secondary education services - 80200000

    • Vocational secondary education services - 80212000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£7,155,996

Procurement reference

TORB001-DN761552-00946120

Published date

31 January 2025

Closing date

3 March 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 September 2025

Contract end date

31 August 2027

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?

Yes

Description

Whilst the majority of children and young people will access their education within a registered school, for some with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) this is not appropriate.

When the local authority is in agreement that education within a school is not appropriate to be able to support the needs of the child or young person, an arrangement can be agreed for them to access their education elsewhere by a different service.

Historically, Torbay Council has taken an ad-hoc approach to this where the provision is spot-purchased on a case-by-case basis. Due to this ad-hoc arrangement and the increasing need for children and young people to receive their education via (Education other than at Schools) EOTAS, it has caused a fragmented system where there is no package offer available for families to understand what EOTAS could look like for their child and inconsistencies have been experienced.

Therefore, the purpose of this procurement exercise is to establish a holistic EOTAS Programme where a child or young person accessing the provision has a consistent journey with defined outcomes, families can, at a glance, understand what the EOTAS provision will look like for their child and will increase the overall sustainability of EOTAS delivery within Torbay.

The EOTAS Programme will compromise of 4 Lots:

Lot 1 Core Curriculum Education
Lot 2 Community Inclusion and Preparing for Adulthood
Lot 3a Aspiration Framework; and
Lot 3b Therapeutic Framework

To make up a holistic package for children and young people in receipt of an EOTAS provision.

More information

Additional text

In order to provide unrestricted, full, direct and free of charge access to the tender documents, the Authority is providing the documents in PDF format in the Opportunities Area of the ProContract e-Tendering Portal at: https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/

In order to access amendable versions of the documents and submit a response, Applicants must be registered as Suppliers on ProContract. Applicants should then express an interest in the opportunity and download the Word and Excel format documents for completion and submission.

About the buyer

Contact name

Chloe Farquhar

Address

Town Hall
Castle Circus
Torquay
TQ1 3DR
England

Telephone

+44 1803208350

Email

chloe.farquhar@torbay.gov.uk

Website

http://www.torbay.gov.uk/