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con_28407 Reducing Family Court Delays - Designated Family Judge Trailblazer Expansion Project 25-26 FTS

Buyer: Department for Education →

BuyerDepartment for Education
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published8 Sept 2025

What is being bought

This is a notice of award for Reducing Family Court Delays - Designated Family Judge Trailblazer Expansion Project 25-26. The services relate to the department's aim to expand upon the work done previously on the Designated Family Judge Trailblazer pilot FY24-25. The work is aimed at reducing delays in the family justice (FJ) system by working with Local Authorities (LAs) in Designated Family Judge (DFJ) areas to identify key causes of local delay in family courts, develop and embed learning from the DFJ Trailblazer 24-25 programme, and further develop system accountability work. The contract has been awarded to Mutual Ventures Ltd

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Education and training services 80000000

Lot details

Lot 1

This is a notice of award for Reducing Family Court Delays - Designated Family Judge Trailblazer Expansion Project 25-26. The services relate to the department's aim to expand upon the work done previously on the Designated Family Judge Trailblazer pilot FY24-25. The work is aimed at reducing delays in the family justice (FJ) system by working with Local Authorities (LAs) in Designated Family Judge (DFJ) areas to identify key causes of local delay in family courts, develop and embed learning from the DFJ Trailblazer 24-25 programme, and further develop system accountability work. The contract has been awarded to Mutual Ventures Ltd

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 60%
Social Value — 10%
Price — 30%
price — 30%

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Education and training services (80000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 802,5843 median · 45.2 average (845 of 2,584 with a bid count)3.7 average (935 of 2,584 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer324.5 median · 10.2 average (10 of 32 with a bid count)1.4 average (12 of 32 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK7532 median · 38 average (284 of 753 with a bid count)2.5 average (322 of 753 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleCompliant call off competition from a CCS Framework.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Reducing Family Court Delays - DFJ Trailblazer Project 25-26

Statusactive

Contracts

Reducing Family Court Delays - DFJ Trailblazer Project 25-26

Statusactive
Value£842,835

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0595f4
Latest release ID054712-2025
Latest release timestampMon Sep 08 2025 14:02:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
8 Sept 2025award, contract054712-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
8 Sept 2025 · 054712-2025 · award, contract
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