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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

Children's Social Care Services Advice, Support and Challenge

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£120k
Awarded6 Feb 2015
Published18 Mar 2015
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£120ktotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Education & Training band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in Local Authorities, as part of interventions, in response to failure or weakness in the provision of children’s social care services.

The Department sees considerable value in drawing down external expertise, from various sectors, to support local authorities in these circumstances and will be increasingly using this approach in its interventions.

This procurement offered successful bidders an exciting and challenging opportunity to drive improvement in underperforming children’s social care services and ensure vulnerable children receive a higher quality service.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in Local Authorities, as part of interventions, in response to failure or weakness in the provision of children’s social care services.

02

The Department sees considerable value in drawing

The Department sees considerable value in drawing down external expertise, from various sectors, to support local authorities in these circumstances and will be increasingly using this approach in its interventions.

03

This procurement offered successful bidders an exciting

This procurement offered successful bidders an exciting and challenging opportunity to drive improvement in underperforming children’s social care services and ensure vulnerable children receive a higher quality service.

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