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title: "*Pre-Market Engagement* - PEACEPLUS ASPIRE - Facilitation of Educator Professional Learning Modules"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0781d2"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "Education Authority NI"
published: "2026-10-06"
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# *Pre-Market Engagement* - PEACEPLUS ASPIRE - Facilitation of Educator Professional Learning Modules

Buyer: Education Authority NI  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0781d2

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## Summary

The Education Authority intends to appoint multiple training providers to work with the PEACEPLUS ASPIRE Shared Education Project to deliver professional learning modules for educators. The planned programme covers digital leadership; culturally responsive teaching in inclusive schools; shared education and lesson study; learning through play and outdoor learning; and teaching positive masculinity. Providers will deliver a suite of modules on a schedule determined by the PEACEPLUS ASPIRE team. The work is education and training services, including teacher training. Delivery is intended for Northern Ireland. The programme is arranged as a multi-supplier framework across five subject areas, giving providers the potential to focus on the module or modules that match their expertise.

This is at planning stage: the Education Authority has set out its intention to procure and is conducting preliminary market engagement, not inviting tenders. It expects to publish the next procurement notice by 30 November 2026. The engagement exercise is intended to gather supplier views on feasibility, market capacity, delivery timescales, risks, innovative approaches and procurement strategy; the buyer expects to use responses to shape the future procurement. The buyer’s engagement milestone is dated 28 October 2026. The anticipated delivery period is 24 months, from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2028, with a possible extension subject to funding and approval. The estimated value is £500,000 excluding VAT (£600,000 including VAT). The planned framework will have five lots, one for each training module area.

The planned work is suited to training providers with practical expertise in one or more of the five themes: digital leadership for educators, culturally responsive teaching, shared education and lesson study, play-based or outdoor learning, and positive masculinity. Providers should be prepared to work in partnership with the PEACEPLUS ASPIRE team and deliver a programme of modules according to the team’s requirements over a sustained period. The buyer is using market engagement to test feasibility, delivery capacity and potential risks, and to identify innovative solutions and factors that may encourage or deter suppliers from bidding. This creates an opportunity for providers, including smaller businesses and voluntary, community or social enterprises, to inform the eventual procurement approach and help ensure that the future requirements are deliverable and accessible to a competitive range of suppliers.

## Notice

The scope of this tender is to appoint a range of training providers that will work in partnership with the PEACEPLUS ASPIRE Shared Education Project to deliver a suite of training modules over the period on a basis determined by the PEACEPLUS ASPIRE Team. The timeframe for delivery of these modules will be a period of 24 months from 1st January 2027 to 31st December 2028. There may exist a future possibility of extension beyond this timeframe subject to funder resource and approval. Lots The framework will be awarded to multiple suppliers across the following lots. Lot 1 - Digital Leaders Professional Learning Module Lot 2 - Inclusive Schools: Culturally Responsive Teaching Lot 3 - Shared Education and Lesson Study Programme Lot 4 - Sharing Through Play/Outdoor Learning Lot 5 - Teaching Positive Masculinity

### Planning Information

The objectives of this market Exercise are to: 
 provide suppliers with an initial awareness of the potential business requirement
 gain insight to the market possibilities and potential innovative solutions
 understand risks and potential issues related to:
 understand required timescales 
 provide EA with confidence around deliverability
 inform the procurement strategy
 prepare the market for the forthcoming procurements
 understand the key issues that are likely to encourage, or discourage, suppliers to bid 
 ensure that project procurements and contracts are attractive to the market and encourage competition, including to potential new entrants to the market in NI; and
 prevent unachievable project proposals from reaching any final procurement stage.
This Exercise will be used to assist EA in gaining a better understanding of the market/feasibility of the requirements, the most appropriate procurement and operational approach, the capacity of the market to deliver the requirements and an opportunity for the market to highlight any possible risks or issues that may not have previously been considered.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094323-2026 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| 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 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 30 Nov 2026 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 4 Jan 2027 - 4 Jan 2029 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £500,000 |
| 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 | Education Authority NI |
| Locality | BELFAST |
| Postcode area | Northern Ireland |
| Postcode | BT1 2NQ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| ITL 1 | TLN Northern Ireland |
| ITL 2 | TLN0 Northern Ireland |
| ITL 3 | TLN06 Belfast |
| Local authority | Belfast |
| Electoral ward | Duncairn |
| Westminster constituency | Belfast North |
| Delivery location | TLN Northern Ireland |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

- 80000000 - Education and training services
- 80500000 - Training services

## Release History

- 6 Oct 2026 at 14:37 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094323-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094323-2026
  6th October 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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