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ID 4458407 DE - Standardisation of Pre-School Education Programme Scoping Study

Buyer: Department of Education →

BuyerDepartment of Education
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published1 Mar 2023

What is being bought

The Department of Education (DE) is working towards standardisation of the DE Pre-school Education Programme (PSEP) throughout Northern Ireland. The overall aim of the contract is to appoint a Contractor to conduct a research study that will: • provide an analysis of the current state of readiness of individual PSEP settings of moving to a minimum of 22.5 hours per week standardised offer, including identifying opportunities for greater alignment of other aspects of PSEP; • examine the current training and qualification requirements within PSEP and provide costed options for a programme of CPD; and • examine the current advice and support available within PSEP and provide costed options for models of delivering advice and support.

Delivery location

UKN

Categories

Research consultancy services 73210000Business and management consultancy and related services 79400000Business and management consultancy services 79410000Evaluation consultancy services 79419000Management-related services 79420000Recruitment services 79600000Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security 79000000

Lot details

Lot 1

The Department of Education (DE) is working towards standardisation of the DE Pre-school Education Programme (PSEP) throughout Northern Ireland. The overall aim of the contract is to appoint a Contractor to conduct a research study that will: • provide an analysis of the current state of readiness of individual PSEP settings of moving to a minimum of 22.5 hours per week standardised offer, including identifying opportunities for greater alignment of other aspects of PSEP; • examine the current training and qualification requirements within PSEP and provide costed options for a programme of CPD; and • examine the current advice and support available within PSEP and provide costed options for models of delivering advice and support.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
AC1 - Proposed Methodology - Current state of sector for moving to standardised PSEP — 10.4
AC2 - Proposed Methodology - Training and qualification requirements of the workforce to provide a high quality standardised PSEP — 10.4
AC3 - Proposed Methodology - Analysis of the advice and support available to all PSEP and costed options for providing consistent and high-quality advice and support to all PSEP settings to support delivery of a standardised offer — 10.4
AC4 - Lead Consultant Experience — 10.4
AC5 - Team Experience — 17.6
AC6 - Contract and Contingency Management — 10.4
AC7 - Social Value — 10.4
AC8 Total Contract Price — 20

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Business and management consultancy and related services, Recruitment services, Management-related services, Business and management consultancy services, Research consultancy services, Evaluation consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 73. The category anchor is Research consultancy services (73210000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 733,0453 median · 26.7 average (1,086 of 3,045 with a bid count)2.5 average (1,227 of 3,045 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKN652 median · 9.8 average (36 of 65 with a bid count)1.9 average (39 of 65 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

Contract

Statusactive
Value£195,639

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

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Latest release ID005978-2023
Latest release timestampWed Mar 01 2023 11:49:59 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
1 Mar 2023award, contract005978-2023
6 Jan 2023tender000454-2023

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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