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# Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/flexible-learning-and-support-services-for-children-and-young-people-ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council: "Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People". Published status: planning. Concession Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/dudley-metropolitan-borough-council-ons-e08000027)
- **Concession Value (operator's expected revenue):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services, Social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UKG36
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/flexible-learning-and-support-services-for-children-and-young-people-ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52`

## 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/flexible-learning-and-support-services-for-children-and-young-people-ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52#tl-md)

## Description
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is considering commissioning a Flexible Learning and Support Services Framework. Our aim is to provide a varied offer of services to our children and young people to support their education and/or Special Educational Needs & Disabilities. These services will be both statutory and non-statutory but provide enhanced levels of support to our young people at the right time and to meet particular need. 
The key aim of this framework is to provide local authority colleagues with a diverse selection of suppliers to draw upon, in order to provide our CYP with a wide range of provisions to support and enhance their learning, including services such as tutoring, mentoring, post 16 provision and online education platforms. 
As part of the decision-making process, the authority is undertaking a soft market test. This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about the potential service model and specification principles. The commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the potential specification.
This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract.  The authority is using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this particular service. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses, and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 80000000, 85310000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2026 to 31/03/2031

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F012650-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-04-02T21:39:12.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T09:51:47.173Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04fc52