--- title: "Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL" published: "2025-04-02" --- # Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People Buyer: DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52.json) ## Summary 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. ## Notice 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. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012650-2025 | | 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 | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 2 Apr 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 16 Apr 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Mar 2026 - 31 Mar 2031 | | 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 | Planning | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL | | Locality | DUDLEY | | Post town | Dudley | | Postcode | DY1 1HF | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands | | ITL 3 | TLG36 Dudley | | Local authority | Dudley | | Electoral ward | St. James's | | Westminster constituency | Dudley | | Delivery location | TLG36 Dudley | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 80 - Education and training services - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 80000000 - Education and training services - 85310000 - Social work services ## Release History - 2 Apr 2025 at 21:39 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012650-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012650-2025 2nd April 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/blackcountryportal/aspx/ProjectManage/3856 - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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