Planning

Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People

DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

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Planning

02 Apr 2025 at 21:39

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is currently in the planning stage of commissioning a framework for Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People. This initiative falls under the Education and Training Services category and aims to provide comprehensive support for children and young people, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The services will cover a range of provisions such as tutoring, mentoring, and online education platforms. The authority is conducting a soft market test to gather input from potential suppliers before finalising the service specification. A questionnaire linked to this engagement is available and should be completed by 16th April 2025. The contract delivery is anticipated to commence on 1st April 2026, in the UKG36 region of the United Kingdom.

This tender offers significant opportunities for SMEs (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) and VCSEs (Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprises) that specialise in education and social work services. By participating in this procurement process, businesses can contribute to shaping a diverse selection of support services aimed at enhancing educational outcomes for young people. This framework will open avenues for businesses to offer tailored services, ensuring a high level of support is available at the right time for children and young people. Companies with expertise in tutoring, mentoring, and developing educational platforms would be particularly well-suited to compete for inclusion in this framework, thus enabling them to expand their service offerings and client base within the public sector.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People

Notice Description

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is considering commissioning a Flexible Learning and Support Services Framework. Our aim is to provide a varied offer of services to our children and young people to support their education and/or Special Educational Needs & Disabilities. These services will be both statutory and non-statutory but provide enhanced levels of support to our young people at the right time and to meet particular need. The key aim of this framework is to provide local authority colleagues with a diverse selection of suppliers to draw upon, in order to provide our CYP with a wide range of provisions to support and enhance their learning, including services such as tutoring, mentoring, post 16 provision and online education platforms. As part of the decision-making process, the authority is undertaking a soft market test. This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about the potential service model and specification principles. The commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the potential specification. This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract. The authority is using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this particular service. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses, and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.

Planning Information

A questionnaire has been created. The questionnaire is available on our portal: https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/blackcountryportal/aspx/ProjectManage/3856 The information gathered from this exercise will help shape future proposals including any potential tendering process and associated service specification. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to carrying out such a process. Participation or non-participation in the pre-procurement market engagement process shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the pre-procurement process shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in the pre-procurement market engagement procurement process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by the Council. This is not a call for competition.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012650-2025
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

80 - Education and training services

85 - Health and social work services

CPV Codes

80000000 - Education and training services

85310000 - Social work services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
2 Apr 202510 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
16 Apr 2025Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
31 Mar 2026 - 31 Mar 2031 Over 5 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
corporate.procurement@dudley.gov.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
DUDLEY
Postcode
DY1 1HF
Post Town
Dudley
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLG West Midlands (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLG3 West Midlands
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLG36 Dudley
Delivery Location
TLG36 Dudley
Local Authority
Dudley
Electoral Ward
St. James's
Westminster Constituency
Dudley

Further Information

Notice Documents

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