Non-Maintained and Independent Special Schools (NMISS) Placement Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)
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This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.
The London Borough of Merton (“the Council”) is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to make placements for Children and Young People (CYP) with Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans in the Non-Maintained and Independent Special Schools (NMISS).
The DPS will go live on 3rd April 2023 and will remain open to schools to apply to join at any time until 3rd April 2028.
The Council is working with adam HTT Ltd to introduce a web-based system, adam Procure, to manage the DPS.
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- ocds-h6vhtk-037f71
- Stage
- tender · Open
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- Find a Tender
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- 031325-2022
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