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Department for Education

Call Off 02 - KS1 (WP01) & KS2 (WP02) English Reading (STA Item Writing Services Framework)

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£164k
Awarded30 Mar 2026
Published8 Jun 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£164ktotal 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

Following the conclusion of the evaluation process, the Department for Education has awarded a contract for Key Stage 1 English Reading (Work Package 01) and Key Stage 2 English Reading (Work Package 02) to the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).

The supplier will undertake enjoyment trialling of Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 reading texts, alongside informal trialling of items within schools.

The contract for Work Package 01 will commence on 18 May 2026 and run until 18 December 2026.

The contract for Work Package 02 will commence on 18 May 2026 and run until 30 April 2027.

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