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DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

Governor Advice Service

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£102k
Awarded9 Mar 2016
Published8 Feb 2016
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£102ktotal 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

To support our drive to improve the effectiveness of governance, we want governing boards to have access to high quality advice to assist them in the performance of their duties.

The successful bidder will need to provide high quality advice in response to the specific circumstances or issues faced by a governing board in their particular situation.

Advice may need to be provided within short timescales, for example just before and even during a governing board meeting.

The successful bidder must provide high quality advice to requests relating to any state funded educational institutions in England that provide education to pupils of compulsory school age (including secondary institutions that have a 6th Form).

This includes all establishments that are maintained by a local authority and those establishments with whom the Secretary of State has entered into academy arrangements, i.e. primary and secondary maintained schools and academies, special schools and special academies, free schools, UTCs, studio schools and alternative provision institutions that are maintained or are academies.

Tenderers are free to determine how the service will meet the requirements of its customers Tenderers are invited to propose the channels they deem appropriate to the nature of the tailored advice they will provide; which could include traditional or new approaches, such as through other digital solutions.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To support our drive to improve

To support our drive to improve the effectiveness of governance, we want governing boards to have access to high quality advice to assist them in the performance of their duties.

02

The successful bidder will need to provide

The successful bidder will need to provide high quality advice in response to the specific circumstances or issues faced by a governing board in their particular situation.

03

Advice may need to be provided within

Advice may need to be provided within short timescales, for example just before and even during a governing board meeting.

04

The successful bidder must provide high quality

The successful bidder must provide high quality advice to requests relating to any state funded educational institutions in England that provide education to pupils of compulsory school age (including secondary institutions that have a 6th Form).

05

Tenderers are free to determine how

Tenderers are free to determine how the service will meet the requirements of its customers Tenderers are invited to propose the channels they deem appropriate to the nature of the tailored advice they will provide; which could include traditional or new approaches, such as through other digital solutions.

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