Official UK procurement notice
Delivering an attendance mentor programme offering targeted support to persistently absent pupils, and families where necessary, to improve attendance.
Authority: Department for Education (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRegular attendance at school is vital for children’s education, wellbeing, and long-term development. The Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, has made clear that excellent attendance is a priority to ensure that all children can catch up on lost learning caused by the pandemic.
As announced in the Levelling Up White Paper, the department is planning a new attendance pilot in a group of Education Improvement Areas where there is a clear demographic need to improve persistent and severe absence rates.
Persistent and Severe absence are a concern across the education sector, raised in publications by, for example, the Centre for Social Justice and the Children’s Commissioner. Mentoring to improve attendance has been suggested as a potential solution to this issue.
We are looking for a contractor that will recruit and train mentors to provide targeted 1 – 1 support with an identified pupil or their family to overcome barriers to attendance. This relationship will need to be reactive to the individuals needs with the overall end goal to improve attendance.
CPV: Career guidance services · Education and training services · Helpdesk and support services · Management training services · Personal development training services · Specialist training services · Staff development services · Training programme services
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single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This contract is to deliver an attendance support offer, initially for one year with…Planned
This contract is to deliver an attendance support offer, initially for one year with the intention to extend to three years (total). The support offer will start in one identified priority Education Improvement Area (EIA) in the first year and aim to support 500-1000 pupils, with the option to scale up to multiple areas nationally and support larger volumes of pupils in years two and three. More information on EIA’s can be found in the Governments Levelling Up white paper here.
We need a supplier to support vulnerable children and families in each of the identified areas to improve attendance. Through this work we aim to enhance capacity for early help/intervention, by working with pupils who are persistently absent and focusing particularly on those pupils who are, or are at risk of being, severely absent (missing with <50% attendance).
The successful contractor will be expected to provide trained practitioners to hold one-to-one conversations with identified pupils and families with an aim to improving attendance. This support should be responsive to the individuals needs and because of this it may be delivered in the school, or in the pupil’s home.
Dependent on the pupils needs, trained practitioners may also be expected to work with external local agencies to ensure all support to a particular family or pupil is aligned and drives towards overcoming attendance barriers.
The successful contractor may also need to work with evaluators to evidence the impact of the support throughout the project lifecycle.
We would like to invite all interested contractors to an initial market warming session date/time for Pre-Market Engagement is TBC where we hope to provide more information on the identified areas, the project scale and allow participant the opportunity to provide feedback before tendering.
This contract is to deliver an attendance support offer, initially for one year with the intention to extend to three years (total). The support offer will start in one identified priority Education Improvement Area (EIA) in the first year and aim to support 500-1000 pupils, with the option to scale up to multiple areas nationally and support larger volumes of pupils in years two and three. More information on EIA’s can be found in the Governments Levelling Up white paper here.
We need a supplier to support vulnerable children and families in each of the identified areas to improve attendance. Through this work we aim to enhance capacity for early help/intervention, by working with pupils who are persistently absent and focusing particularly on those pupils who are, or are at risk of being, severely absent (missing with <50% attendance).
The successful contractor will be expected to provide trained practitioners to hold one-to-one conversations with identified pupils and families with an aim to improving attendance. This support should be responsive to the individuals needs and because of this it may be delivered in the school, or in the pupil’s home.
Dependent on the pupils needs, trained practitioners may also be expected to work with external local agencies to ensure all support to a particular family or pupil is aligned and drives towards overcoming attendance barriers.
The successful contractor may also need to work with evaluators to evidence the impact of the support throughout the project lifecycle.
We would like to invite all interested contractors to an initial market warming session date/time for Pre-Market Engagement is TBC where we hope to provide more information on the identified areas, the project scale and allow participant the opportunity to provide feedback before tendering. Additional information: Please register an interest in attending (max two per organisation) to:sendbaea.commercial@education.gov.uk by 6th April 2022
SCHEDULED DATE FOR PUBLICATION OF CONTRACT NOTICE: Estimated May 2022
ESTIMATED TOTAL VALUE OF CONTRACT: £5 Million excluding VAT
START AND END DATES OF THE TOTAL CONTRACT LENGTH: September 2022 - March 2025
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Mar 2022, 16:16 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 May 2022, 11:53 BST
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-013341- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032588Find a Tender
Publisher note: This contract is to deliver an attendance support offer, initially for one year with the intention to extend to three years (total). The support offer will start in one identified priority Education Improvement Area (EIA) in the first year and aim to support 500-1000 pupils, with the option to scale up to multiple areas nationally and support larger volumes of pupils in years two and three. More information on EIA’s can be found in the Governments Levelling Up white paper here. We need a supplier to support vulnerable children and families in each of the identified areas to improve attendance. Through this work we aim to enhance capacity for early help/intervention, by working with pupils who are persistently absent and focusing particularly on those pupils who are, or are at risk of being, severely absent (missing with <50% attendance). The successful contractor will be expected to provide trained practitioners to hold one-to-one conversations with identified pupils and families with an aim to improving attendance. This support should be responsive to the individuals needs and because of this it may be delivered in the school, or in the pupil’s home. Dependent on the pupils needs, trained practitioners may also be expected to work with external local agencies to ensure all support to a particular family or pupil is aligned and drives towards overcoming attendance barriers. The successful contractor may also need to work with evaluators to evidence the impact of the support throughout the project lifecycle. We would like to invite all interested contractors to an initial market warming session date/time for Pre-Market Engagement is TBC where we hope to provide more information on the identified areas, the project scale and allow participants the opportunity to provide feedback before tendering. The Department wishes to assess market capability and capacity to administer and deliver a response. Details of a virtual pre-market engagement event will be given at a later date to all those who have registered. Please register an interest in attending (max two per organisation) to:sendbaea.commercial@education.gov.uk by 6th April 2022 SCHEDULED DATE FOR PUBLICATION OF CONTRACT NOTICE: Estimated May 2022 ESTIMATE TOTAL VALUE OF CONTRACT: £5 Million excluding VAT START AND END DATES OF THE TOTAL CONTRACT LENGHT: September 2022 - March 2025 This notice does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services for the Department. The procurement of any services will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The purpose of this PIN is to stimulate early market interest and invite interested parties to take part in preliminary market consultations. As part of the market engagement, we wish to test views on areas such as: Whether you believe you have the capacity to successfully manage these potential opportunities? Whether you believe you have the expertise to successfully manage these potential opportunities? Whether you have any other provision/ contracts/ grants with any other government department? Would you expect to submit a tender as a single supplier, consortium, framework, lots, managed service or any other appropriate vehicle? Whether you feel there are any issues or challenges in delivering these potential opportunities? How would you see your business model working with the proposed tendering opportunities? Whether there are other opportunities to improve attendance for persistently and severely absent children and young people and their families which could be included in these programmes? Whether you have specific suggestions for how the opportunities could be delivered to ensure the greatest impact on attendance for persistently and severely absent children and young people?
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Mar 2022 → 18 May 2022 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected23 Mar 2022
- Notice published18 May 2022, 11:53 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated18 May 2022, 11:53 BST
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| — | Text2.4 | This contract is to deliver an attendance support offer, initially for one year with the intention to extend to three years (total). The support offer will start in one identified priority Education Improvement Area (EIA) in the first year and aim to support 500-1000 pupils, with the option to scale up to multiple areas nationally and support larger volumes of pupils in years two and three. More i… | This contract is to deliver an attendance support offer, initially for one year with the intention to extend to three years (total). The pilot will start in one identified priority Education Improvement Area (EIA) with the option to scale up to a total of five areas in years two and three. The support should reach at least 335 pupils in the first year, then a minimum of 665 per year in years two a… | |
| — | Text2.14 | Please register an interest in attending (max two per organisation) to:sendbaea.commercial@education.gov.uk by 6th April 2022 SCHEDULED DATE FOR PUBLICATION OF CONTRACT NOTICE: Estimated May 2022 ESTIMATED TOTAL VALUE OF CONTRACT: £5 Million excluding VAT START AND END DATES OF THE TOTAL CONTRACT LENGTH: September 2022 - March 2025 | The Department wishes to assess market capability and capacity to administer and deliver a response. Details of a virtual pre-market engagement event will be given at a later date to all those who have registered. Please register an interest in attending (max two per organisation) to:sendbaea.commercial@education.gov.uk by 6th April 2022 SCHEDULED DATE FOR PUBLICATION OF CONTRACT NOTICE: Estimated… | |
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