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# Invitation to Tender for Trialling Framework Service 2025 -2028

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/invitation-to-tender-for-trialling-framework-service-2025-2028-ocds-h6vhtk-04db0b). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is responsible for developing and delivering statutory national curriculum tests in English Reading, English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (GPS), Mathematics, Phonics, and the Reception Baseline Assessment for schools. The STA ensures these tests are of the highest quality, accessible to all, inclusive, and free from bias. The initial framework term will be three years (from June 2025 to June 2028), with an option to extend for an additional 12 months.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Education](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-education-gov-d6)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £18,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 27 March 2025 at 00:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04db0b`

## 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/invitation-to-tender-for-trialling-framework-service-2025-2028-ocds-h6vhtk-04db0b#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/invitation-to-tender-for-trialling-framework-service-2025-2028-ocds-h6vhtk-04db0b#participate

## Description
The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is responsible for developing and delivering statutory national curriculum tests in English Reading, English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (GPS), Mathematics, Phonics, and the Reception Baseline Assessment for schools. The STA ensures these tests are of the highest quality, accessible to all, inclusive, and free from bias.
The Agency invites potential bidders to participate in the tender process, aiming to appoint up to five suppliers to a new trialling framework.
The initial framework term will be three years (from June 2025 to June 2028), with an option to extend for an additional 12 months.
The total framework value is not expected to exceed £18M ( including the extension period).
Trialling is essential to the STA’s operating model for delivering new assessments and adding to the bank of items for current assessments. Two types of trials are conducted:
Item Validation Trial (IVT): A relatively small-scale trial providing evidence to support item development, such as refining question wording and developing coding frames.
Technical Pre-Test (TPT): A larger-scale trial providing statistical evidence related to items.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £18,000,000
- **Description:** ADD
- **Contract Period:** 30/06/2025 to 30/06/2028

- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F003483-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-02-03T14:45:26.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T14:46:26.954Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04db0b