--- title: "Designation of Appropriate Body for British Schools Overseas" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-665175d5-7805-41ab-bad3-b570418cfe00" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-665175d5-7805-41ab-bad3-b570418cfe00" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-665175d5-7805-41ab-bad3-b570418cfe00.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-665175d5-7805-41ab-bad3-b570418cfe00.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION" published: "2023-08-02" --- # Designation of Appropriate Body for British Schools Overseas Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-665175d5-7805-41ab-bad3-b570418cfe00 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-665175d5-7805-41ab-bad3-b570418cfe00) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-665175d5-7805-41ab-bad3-b570418cfe00.json) ## Summary The Department for Education has initiated a tender process for the designation of an appropriate body to support statutory teacher induction in British schools overseas. The procurement process, currently in the planning stage, involves identifying organisations for designation to operate from the academic year 2024/25. Key milestones include the engagement end date of September 11, 2023. Interested parties can find further details on the JAGGAER e-tendering portal. The procurement is focused on education and training services, with an emphasis on supporting early career teachers through a competitive process. This tender offers business growth opportunities for organisations with expertise in supporting statutory teacher induction within British schools overseas. Suitable businesses include those with experience working as or with appropriate bodies. The competitive process aims to designate one or more organisations specifically to operate as an appropriate body for early career teachers. With a focus on SMEs and VCSEs, this procurement presents an opportunity to provide services to cover costs for designated appropriate bodies. The Department for Education will communicate all future information through the DfE eTendering Portal. ## Notice Purpose: Since September 2021, significant reforms have been introduced to ensure that new teachers receive high-quality training based on the Early Career Framework (ECF) and are adequately supported throughout the early stages of their careers. As part of the reforms, the department also committed to establishing specialist appropriate body services to operate with British schools overseas. Appropriate bodies have a statutory role and are responsible for ensuring the quality assurance of statutory teacher induction and for ensuring early career teachers receive their entitled support. The purpose of this Prior Information Notice is to notify the sector of a planned competitive process to identify one or more organisations suitable for designation as an appropriate body to operate from academic year 2024/25. Organisations with the required capacity and expertise in working extensively as or with an appropriate body to support statutory induction within British schools overseas will be invited to apply for designation to operate as an appropriate body specifically for early career teachers serving induction in British schools overseas. The DfE will be presenting an online market warming event for British schools overseas stakeholders with an interest and organisations that may be interested in applying for designation as a specialist appropriate body serving only British schools overseas. The market warming event will provide further information on the designation process. Additionally, interested parties will have the opportunity to ask questions during the event, which the DfE will respond to after the event via the DfE eTendering Portal, JAGGAER (details below). Market Event for Stakeholders and Interested Parties: A market warming event will take place on 1pm BST (12 noon GMT) on 11th July. Please note that a maximum of two people from each organisation can attend the event. In the event that you are unable to attend the webinar, you will be able to access the webinar slides via JAGGAER after the scheduled webinar date. To sign up for the webinar that is due to take place on 11th July, 1pm BST (12 noon GMT), you should: 1. Follow this link: https://education.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=56528 2. Once registering/logging in, express your interest in the opportunity. Then choose the option as part of this to state that you would like to attend the webinar. 3. You will receive a link to join the webinar closer to the scheduled time. Please note that signing up for this event will allow your organisation to access the webinar but will not commit your organisation to applying for designation We expect the competitive process to open during Summer 2023, with a view to designating AB(s) to operate from academic year 2024/25. Additional information: This notice is for information only and is not a call for applications. Accordingly, the DfE will not be liable for any bid cost, expenditure, work, or effort incurred by an organisation in acting on the basis of this notice. Within this designation process, it is important to clarify that the department will not award funding to successful organisations. This designation process aims to establish a system in which designated appropriate bodies for British schools overseas will be able to charge schools for their services to cover costs. All future information will be issued via the DfE eTendering Portal. Applicants can access this system at: (https://education.app.jaggaer.com/) for details of how to register and the terms of free registration. All information included in this notice is indicative and subject to change. UPDATE 12th July 2023 - Slides and transcript from engagement event uploaded. UPDATE 2nd August 2003 - The competitive process for the designation of appropriate bodies for British school overseas is now live. The application pack can be accessed on the JAGGAER platform at: https://education.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=56528 ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/360ea585-0c95-4e2e-8eea-53a8b11a11f6 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 2 Aug 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 11 Sep 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South West London | | Postcode | SW1P 3BT | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West | | ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London | | Local authority | Westminster | | Electoral ward | St James's | | Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 80 - Education and training services ### Codes - 80000000 - Education and training services ## Release History - 2 Aug 2023 at 09:49 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/360ea585-0c95-4e2e-8eea-53a8b11a11f6 - 12 Jul 2023 at 12:37 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0331e38d-4427-424a-a52d-eb44cce78e59 - 28 Jun 2023 at 10:58 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b4994e13-fd21-47b8-bc2c-23791b5b7520 - 28 Jun 2023 at 08:23 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cfd78229-e26a-4bf3-9f06-fb18400c74f5 - 27 Jun 2023 at 15:43 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b16c6f55-e698-4a4a-b111-b6f70071d389 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/360ea585-0c95-4e2e-8eea-53a8b11a11f6 2nd August 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0331e38d-4427-424a-a52d-eb44cce78e59 12th July 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b4994e13-fd21-47b8-bc2c-23791b5b7520 28th June 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cfd78229-e26a-4bf3-9f06-fb18400c74f5 28th June 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b16c6f55-e698-4a4a-b111-b6f70071d389 27th June 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1115/made Inductions regulations 2012 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/induction-for-early-career-teachers-england Statutory induction guidance (see guidance from 1 September 2023) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/appropriate-bodies-guidance-induction-and-the-early-career-framework Appropriate body guidance (see guidance from 1 September 2023) - https://education.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=56528 Jaggaer e-tendering portal link - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/ec40c050-17a0-4851-974a-64cefd344cec n/a - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/337444ae-8957-4601-b644-638b536175d8 n/a ## Notice URLs - https://education.app.jaggaer.com/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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