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title: "Direct Award for Temporary Specialist Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) Workers"
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# Direct Award for Temporary Specialist Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) Workers

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/direct-award-for-temporary-specialist-special-educational-needs-disabilities-send-workers-ocds-h6vhtk-03cf97). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Torbay Council: "Direct Award for Temporary Specialist Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) Workers". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Torbay Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/torbay-council-ons-e06000027)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- **Delivery Location:** UKK42
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £343,200 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03cf97`

## 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/direct-award-for-temporary-specialist-special-educational-needs-disabilities-send-workers-ocds-h6vhtk-03cf97#tl-md)

## Description
Torbay Council is currently unable to meet the current demand for requests for new Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP) assessments and annual reviews with the capacity available. There is a national increase in Request for Statutory Assessment (RSA) requests.
The temporary appointment of specialist SEND workers for 12 months would clear the backlog and then accurately assess demand vs capacity. Legally, the Council should be making the decision to amend the EHCP within 2 weeks of receiving the Annual Review paperwork and sending out the Amended plan with that decision.
The Council has advertised to its contracted Standing List of temporary agency providers, on numerous occasions, with no response. Therefore, the Council wishes to source the four required specialist education/SEND staff directly, via an agency provider, not on the Council’s Standing List. There is an urgency to sourcing these staff due to the services’ task being statutory, and therefore there is no time available to conduct an appropriate procurement process for these temporary appointments.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published

- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Description:** Torbay Council is currently not able to meet current demand for the requests for new Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP)assessments and annual reviews with the capacity available. There is also a national increase in Request for Statutory Assessment...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 015007-2023-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Panoramic Associates**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-83772`
  - Value: £343,200 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 015007-2023-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £343,200
  - Signed Date: 24/05/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015064-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-05-26T10:35:26.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-31T22:35:55.738Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03cf97