Official UK procurement notice
PME Erasmus · UK public procurement notice
Authority: London Borough of Croydon (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is not a call for competition.
The London Borough of Croydon is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to the potential commissioning of an Erasmus+ teacher/educator training and international mobility programme for Croydon schools.
The Council is seeking expressions of interest only from organisations with demonstrable previous experience of managing and delivering Erasmus+ projects and international education mobility programmes on behalf of schools or public-sector organisations.
The appointed provider would be expected to provide end-to-end programme management, including:
- Previous experience of successfully managing and delivering Erasmus+ projects, including details of the number and type of projects delivered
- Management and coordination of international teacher training, CPD and school visits across European destinations, with destinations to be confirmed
- Organisation and management of participant travel, accommodation, and associated logistics
- Support with participant recruitment and selection, including ensuring appropriate eligibility and allocation processes
- Management of Erasmus+ grant administration, financial monitoring, evidence, and reporting requirements
- Support for safeguarding, risk management and participant welfare throughout the programme
- Delivery or commissioning of high-quality teacher CPD and training aligned to the agreed programme objectives
- Development and implementation of programme evaluation, impact measurement, and outcomes reporting
- Monitoring and reporting on participant outcomes and the wider impact of the programme on participating schools; and
- Effective stakeholder management and communication with the Council, schools, training providers, and international partners.
The programme is intended to support Croydon schools in developing practice in areas including inclusion and SEND, digital and AI-enabled education, wellbeing, sustainability, innovation, and oracy/communication-rich learning, aligned with relevant Erasmus+ priorities.
Providers should only register an interest where they can demonstrate the relevant specialist experience, capacity, international networks and organisational infrastructure required to manage an Erasmus+ mobility programme from participant selection through to final evaluation and grant reporting.
Registering your interest
Providers wishing to participate must register their interest through the correspondence area no later than 21 September 2026
Please complete the sections provided in the document attached and return via the messaging area on the inTend Portal:
Following the registration deadline, the Council will review responses and may engage with organisations whose experience and capabilities align with the requirements.
This market engagement exercise is intended to inform the Council's understanding of the market and potential future commissioning arrangements. It does not constitute a procurement process, and participation does not provide any advantage in any future procurement activity.
Organisation name
Main contact name and job title
Contact email address
A brief response confirming:
- the number of Erasmus+ projects your organisation has previously managed
- your experience of managing international school/teacher mobility programmes
- your experience of grant administration and reporting
- your ability to manage travel, accommodation, participant selection, safeguarding, CPD and evaluation; and
- a brief example of a comparable programme successfully delivered.
Word Limit: 250 words
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We appreciate your cooperation and look forward to working together.
CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services · Social services · Social work and related services · Social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Croydon buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Croydon’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 97 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid13% / 29%
2–347% / 39%
4–627% / 22%
7+13% / 10%
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Below estimate30% / 21%
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Lot #1CPV 85Estimate not published
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1 bid26%
2–333%
4–624%
7+17%
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Sept 2026, 16:30 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Sept 2026, 16:30 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085085- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f4fdFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Sept 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published48 days ago8 Sept 2026, 16:30 BST
- Market engagement35 days ago21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Please refer to the PME document provided
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 66 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Sept 2026, 16:30 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender