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# Education Durham Select List of Specialist Providers

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/education-durham-select-list-of-specialist-providers-ocds-h6vhtk-05da2a). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** This Agreement ("the Contract") is for a Select List of multiple external consultants who will be called on by Education Durham to provide support to Durham schools when required; to ensure the highest quality opportunities and outcomes for all children and young people in County Durham. The Select List being proposed here is to establish ways of supporting the work of Education Durham by supporting Durham Primary and Secondary schools/academies, with the following deliverables:

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Durham County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/durham-county-council-ons-e06000047)
- **Published Value:** £540,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 5 December 2025 at 10:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC14
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/education-durham-select-list-of-specialist-providers-ocds-h6vhtk-05da2a#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05da2a`

## 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/education-durham-select-list-of-specialist-providers-ocds-h6vhtk-05da2a#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [open-uk.org](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.open-uk.org%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/education-durham-select-list-of-specialist-providers-ocds-h6vhtk-05da2a#participate

## Description
This Agreement ("the Contract") is for a Select List of multiple  external consultants who will be called on by Education Durham to provide support to Durham schools when required; to ensure the highest quality opportunities and outcomes for all children and young people in County Durham.
The Select List being proposed here is to establish ways of supporting the work of Education Durham by supporting Durham Primary and Secondary schools/academies, with the following deliverables:
• Delivery of School Leadership Advisors visits and Head Teacher Performance Management within schools.
• providing guidance relating to Subject specific and/or areas of school improvement, including supporting schools in their self-evaluation through, for instance, work scrutiny;
• planning and delivering courses and in-school contracts relating to Subject specific and/or areas of school;
• providing as required, support to improve teaching through coaching and modelling best practice 
• supporting schools to ensure consistency of progression and inclusion;
• Supporting schools to challenge underperformance in teaching wherever encountered.
• Complete and evaluate in school contracts and training events
• Participation in Education Durham planning and development activities, evaluated by Lead Advisors and Strategic Managers 
• planning and delivering courses and in-school contracts relating to Subject specific and/or areas of school;
The need for additional support can be for a variety of reasons including, impending Ofsted Inspections, outcomes of an Ofsted Inspection resulting Schools being rated as "special measures" or "requires improvement".  
This is an open arrangement where suppliers can bid during the lifetime of the contract.
The Council makes no guarantee to any Provider that they will be awarded any work under this Select Provider List and no guarantee is made in respect of any volume of work under any such agreement, or in aggregate under the contract. The Contract provides for no form of exclusivity and the Council is at all times entitled to enter into other contracts and agreements with other Providers for the provision of any of these Services.
Each Provider should understand that their submission constitutes an acceptance to the Council of the terms of the Contract.   The contract affords the Provider merely the opportunity to respond to an invitation from the Council for the provision of services.
This is an Open list that allows for submissions to be received throughout the duration of the contract.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £540,000

- **Contract Period:** 01/03/2026 to 01/03/2027
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F070951-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-04T15:58:30.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T21:05:25.848Z
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