Notice Information
Notice Title
Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Recruitment and Retention Support Services
Notice Description
The Department for Education (the Department) is seeking to procure support to aid the recruitment, transition, training and retention of career changers and to reprocure the Maths and Physics Chairs programme. LOT 1: CAREER CHANGERS Career changers have the potential to bring extraordinary previous employment and industry experience to the classroom, which can inspire young people and influence teaching practice and wider school policies. Career changers, however, require more support than new graduate applicants to ITT in deciding to apply for teaching, and through the transition from their previous careers into the classroom. We seek bids from suppliers that can demonstrate how they can attract, recruit and support career changers to make a successful transition into teaching, deliver 'added value' from their previous careers and retain them once trained. Contracts awarded on Lot 1 will be targeted at a specific region or regions. Each contract will not exceed a maximum value of PS3m (Including VAT) in the initial contract period (i.e. for two cohorts of up to 200 participants in total). LOT 2: MATHS AND PHYSICS CHAIRS Post-doctoral researchers are a sub-set of career changers who can bring an enhanced level of subject knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm to encourage young people to study these subjects. Researchers can also champion evidence-based practice and higher education. However, mainstream teacher training routes have generally not targeted post-doctoral researchers. The Department is keen to continue with the Chairs programme and wants to increase the flexibility of the programme to include both School Direct (fee) and School Direct (salaried) to give schools and participants more choice. We are looking to award a single national contract for the Maths and Physics programme which will be for up to 100 participants per cohort, placed in schools across England. We seek bids from organisations that can demonstrate how they can attract and support high calibre post-doctoral researchers to make a successful transition into teaching, and how they will retain trainees once trained. We invite bids from individual organisations or consortia capable of delivering a national programme. The main subject focus of the Chairs programme will be maths and physics but the programme may also include participants in other EBacc subjects. The Department may consider expanding the scope to other subjects/phases that are challenging to recruit to where it can be managed within the existing Service and Pricing Model. BOTH LOTS: The initial scope of each contract is for two intakes of up to 100 participants per cohort to start their training in 2019/20 (2019 cohort) and 2020/21 (2020 cohort) respectively. There is a possibility of an extension for one further cohort. Additional information: Please note that the DfE will be utilising its own e-Tendering portal for this procurement This can be accessed via the following URL: https://education.bravosolution.co.uk Once organisations have registered there, and received their temporary password, they will be able to sign in, express an interest and access all the procurement documentation necessary for completing their bid.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-90adccee-04e8-4fff-a6b7-3af82840be05
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/83ae52a2-242e-4c92-853b-1ebd27c396b6
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
80000000 - Education and training services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £20,500,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 8 Aug 20187 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 12 Sep 2018Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 8 Oct 2018 - 31 Aug 2021 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- COVENTRY
- Postcode
- CV1 2WT
- Post Town
- Coventry
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLG West Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLG3 West Midlands
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLG33 Coventry
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Coventry
- Electoral Ward
- St Michael's
- Westminster Constituency
- Coventry South
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/83ae52a2-242e-4c92-853b-1ebd27c396b6
8th August 2018 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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