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title: "School and Trust Business Professionals - Local Support Offer con_25233"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-042e07"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION"
published: "2024-04-26"
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# School and Trust Business Professionals - Local Support Offer con_25233

Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-042e07

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## Summary

The Department for Education has awarded a contract for the provision of in-person training services to School Business Professional Networks and Multi Academy Trusts. The contract, titled "School and Trust Business Professionals – Local Support Offer," falls under the services category of education and training services. The main purpose of the training is to address the upskilling needs of School Business Professionals in areas such as technical support, professional development, capacity building, and soft skills. The training will be delivered through 80 practical sessions to over 1,800 professionals, with an award value of £229,080. The buying organization is the Department for Education located in London, and the procurement stage has been completed.

This procurement opportunity provides a platform for training providers or organisations specializing in educational services to expand their business by delivering practical training sessions across key School Resource Management areas. Businesses with expertise in delivering in-person training, particularly in education and professional development, are well-suited to compete for this opportunity. The tender process for this contract is currently open, offering a chance for qualified suppliers to engage with the Department for Education in providing vital training services to school and trust business professionals in the UK.

## Notice

The service involves in-person training for School Business Professional Networks and Multi Academy Trusts to request for local events, meeting the evidenced problem that many SBPs request more upskilling and suppliers have capacity to offer this, but time and funding constraints are holding back the market. This training would cover one of four areas, at the request of network leads and their members: i. technical support, ii. professional development support, iii. capacity support, iv. softer skill support.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The service involves in-person training for School Business Professional Networks and Multi Academy Trusts to request for local events, meeting the evidenced problem that many SBPs request more upskilling and suppliers have capacity to offer this, but time and funding constraints are holding back the market. This training would cover one of four areas, at the request of network leads and their members: i. technical support, ii. professional development support, iii. capacity support, iv. softer skill support. The service will involve 80 practical training sessions delivering to school and trust business professionals (e.g., School Business Managers, Finance Managers, CFOs, COOs). It will be delivered to at least 1,800 professionals in total (20 participants on average per training session) over 2023-24 and 2024-25, across local authority maintained school and academy trust settings. Training will be designed and delivered across four content areas: * Technical skills and knowledge. For example, integrated curriculum and financial planning, financial management and budgeting, income management, manging risk, internal audit and scrutiny, operations, sustainability and climate change, procurement, estate management, HR, digital and technology. * Soft skills. For example, leadership, communication, managing teams effectively, effective line or performance management, resilience. * Career development. For example, career pathways that are available in schools and academy trusts, suggestions for how to access different pathways, practical advice on professional development in school and academy trust business professional roles, coaching-style sessions for attendees. * Capacity building. For example, accessing apprenticeships, team building, collaboration with other schools, school groups and/or academy trusts, aggregated purchasing, flexible working approaches. The training sessions will be delivered in-person, in a workshop style. The sessions will allow for discussion between the trainer and delegates and between delegates themselves. This will be for delegates to share ideas and the trainer to relate the training content to the issues and situations facing delegates in reality.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013569-2024 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 26 Apr 2024 |
| Submission deadline | 22 Feb 2024 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 20 Apr 2024 |
| Contract period | 27 Mar 2024 - 31 Dec 2025 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £229,080 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## 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 |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | INSTITUTE OF SCHOOL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

- 80000000 - Education and training services

## Release History

- 26 Apr 2024 at 10:38 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013569-2024
- 17 Jan 2024 at 17:24 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001672-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://education.app.jaggaer.com
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education

## Provenance

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