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# Connectivity, Communications, Security and Safeguarding Services Partner

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/connectivity-communications-security-and-safeguarding-services-partner-ocds-h6vhtk-05f1dd). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Academy Transformation Trust: "Connectivity, Communications, Security and Safeguarding Services Partner". Published status: complete. Published Value: £2,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 9 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Academy Transformation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/academy-transformation-trust-coh-07846852)
- **Published Value:** £2,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 9 January 2026 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive flexible procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, Internet network, Wide area network
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £2,000,000 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 11 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/connectivity-communications-security-and-safeguarding-services-partner-ocds-h6vhtk-05f1dd#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05f1dd`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/connectivity-communications-security-and-safeguarding-services-partner-ocds-h6vhtk-05f1dd#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission method:** Submission by email as described in the PSQ.

## Description
At Academy Transformation Trust (ATT), our ambition is that every person who passes through our schools and colleges becomes an educated person - able to take a rightful place in the community of educated people and to join what Robert Maynard Hutchins called "the Great Conversation." An ATT education stresses history, the scientific mode of thinking, the disciplined use of language, a wide-ranging knowledge of the arts and religion, and the continuity of human enterprise. We aspire for everyone, regardless of their starting point, to leave us capable, competent, and confident.
Our cross-phase group of academies was founded in 2011 and, since that time, we have grown to our current family of 22 academies (primary, secondary, post-16 and FE) operating across 10 English local authority areas.
The Trust's current connectivity contract is coming to an end in July 2026.
The Trust has taken this opportunity to review its requirements in terms of:
• Internet connectivity and,
• in the current climate of increased focus on cyber attacks in education, security at each site and across the wider Trust network.
• The safeguarding of students (but all users in general) as they use Trust ICT services and equipment
With increasing emphasis and use of moving to cloud based platforms to deliver key services, the Trust needs secure, reliable connectivity to these cloud services and the wider internet.
The Trust is in the final stages of moving as many services as possible 'off-site' and into the cloud - indeed, by the end of this academic year this project should be complete, though some services will need to remain local such as access control. To support this outcome, the Trust will require the successful bidder to provide a centralised hosting platform for key Trust services and applications to be delivered to/accessible from all sites.
With the majority of services moving into the cloud, connectivity between the school sites is minimised, but will still be required.
In addition to a secure network and central hosting there needs to be a comprehensive safeguarding solution, providing web filtering and activity monitoring to DfE KCSIE and other relevant DfE standards. This solution will deliver proactive and reactive filtering and monitoring, managing false positives and allowing Trust staff to be alerted so that they can manage effective and timely interventions when issues and/or concerns around how students (or other users) using Trust services and/or devices may arise.
Following internal review and due diligence, the Trust has decided that it wants to test the market to find the most advantageous partner to work with them to deliver the above outcomes
The Trust requires the following:
- Secure Broadband/Internet connectivity for the Trust sites meeting, at a minimum, the DfE Digital and Technology Standards in Schools and Colleges
- The Trust is in the final stages of moving as many services as possible 'off-site' and into the cloud - indeed, by the end of t...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/connectivity-communications-security-and-safeguarding-services-partner-ocds-h6vhtk-05f1dd)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 32412110, 32430000, 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £2,000,000

- **Contract Period:** 31/07/2026 to 31/07/2031
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **RM Education Ltd.**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-75320`
  - Value: £2,000,000 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 12/04/2026

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,000,000
  - Signed Date: 19/05/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F081090-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-05-21T08:36:46.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T21:04:47.488Z
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