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# Family Group Decision Making - Best Practice Guides

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/family-group-decision-making-best-practice-guides-ocds-h6vhtk-04e67c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Education: "Family Group Decision Making - Best Practice Guides". Published status: complete. Published Value: £250,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 24 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: education.app.jaggaer.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Education](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-education-gov-d6)
- **Published Value:** £250,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 24 March 2025 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £295,890 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04e67c`

## 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/family-group-decision-making-best-practice-guides-ocds-h6vhtk-04e67c#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [education.app.jaggaer.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.app.jaggaer.com%2Fweb%2Flogin.html)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/family-group-decision-making-best-practice-guides-ocds-h6vhtk-04e67c#participate

## Description
The services relate to the Department’s aim to procure the development of a package of best practice guidance for local authorities (LAs) to implement their new legal duty to offer family group decision making (FGDM) to all parents (or those with parental responsibility) of children whose cases have reached the pre-proceedings stage, unless the offer is not in the child’s best interest. Although this is being primarily produced to offer guidance to support LAs in relation to the new duty at the time it comes into force, it will also offer general best practice guidance on FGDM that is applicable to meetings that happen at other points in the children’s social care system (e.g. at earlier points in the system, such as during family help, or later, such as reunification).  
The contract has been awarded to Mutual Ventures Ltd.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** This is at notice of award for FGDM Best Practise Guides
The services relate to the Department’s aim to procure the development of a package of best practice guidance for local authorities (LAs) to implement their new legal duty to offer family group...
- **Contract Period:** 31/05/2025 to 30/11/2025

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 031465-2025-con_27689-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Mutual Ventures Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-46430`
  - Value: £295,890 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 031465-2025-con_27689-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £295,890
  - Signed Date: 01/06/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F031465-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-06-11T10:12:17.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T05:18:30.702Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04e67c