Official UK procurement notice
Proposed new special free school in West Northamptonshire
Authority: West Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWest Northamptonshire Council has identified the need to provide additional specialist school places for children and young people, preferably to the south-west of Northampton, within reasonable travelling distance of Towcester, Daventry and Brackley.The need is for places for pupils with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC), speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and severe learning difficulties (SLD). To address these needs, the council is conducting a procurement exercise to find an academy trust to open and run a new special free school providing up to 250 places from September 2024. To comply with section 6A of the Education and Inspections Act, 2006 (the ‘free school presumption’) the council must, in the first instance, seek proposals to establish a free school from appropriately skilled, experienced and successful academy trusts.Under the free school ‘presumption’ route, West Northamptonshire council is responsible for funding the proposed new school and providing
CPV: Primary education services · Secondary education services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Suitability
As listed in the procurement documentation
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 20 Jun 2022, 09:55 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Jun 2022, 09:55 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 1 Aug 2022 – …
- Authority reference
WNC00000156- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-016755- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-034818Find a Tender
- Performance terms
As listed in the procurement documentation, set by the Department for Education.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 29 Jul 2022, 23:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 1 Aug 2022, 09:00 BST
Timeline
20 Jun 2022 → 30 Sept 2022 · 4 dates- Notice published20 Jun 2022, 09:55 BST
- Submission deadline29 Jul 2022, 23:00 BST
- Bids opened1 Aug 2022, 09:00 BST
- Contract starts30 Sept 2022, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria