Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 8 Apr 2026, 10:04 BST

Official UK procurement notice

LOT: 2 Skills Education Advisers - TQES (ECSC) - Re-open

Authority: Department for Education (Central government)

Services
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£160,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 20 Apr 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This notice is to capture supplier interest to register on Jaggaer to benefit from the opportunity to apply for membership on the Educational Children's Social Care (ECSC) Professional Framework as a Skills Education Adviser.

It is the Department for Education’s intention to re-open LOT 2 Skills Education Advisers, to provide expertise on education training and development to the skills group, with the specific skills in designing, developing, and evaluating qualifications, and experts in assessment strategy.

The DfE are seeking to bring in additional EAs with the expertise to support development of Technical and Vocational Qualifications such as; T Levels including Foundation Year; 16-19 English and Maths; English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL); Essential Digital Skills

The opportunity will be published non contracts Finder and potential suppliers are encouraged to register on Jaggaer to access the opportunity via the link.

CPV: Education and training services · Training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Department for Education buys Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up

Department for Education’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Education and training services (CPV 80) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerDepartment for Education · division 80
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 25 of 52 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
48%—

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 21 of 26 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
81%—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 16 decided notices · market: no decision dates published
50 days—

Half of these awards were announced within 50 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 27 of 73 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
37%—

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer27 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 80
11% had one bid
The marketNo bid counts published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
1 bid11%
Buyer: 3 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
2–341%
Buyer: 11 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
4–626%
Buyer: 7 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
7+22%
Buyer: 6 of 27 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer17 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 80
47% below estimate
The marketNo estimate-and-award pairs published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
Below estimate47%
Buyer: 8 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%29%
Buyer: 5 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate24%
Buyer: 4 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1Published estimate£160k
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 788 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet23% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 788 similar lots
1 bid23%
180 of 788 similar past lots received 1 bid (23%).
2–330%
233 of 788 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–624%
188 of 788 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+24%
187 of 788 similar past lots received 7+ (24%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £160k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
8 Apr 2026, 10:04 BST
Last source update
8 Apr 2026, 10:04 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031758
Classification (CPV)
Education and training servicesTraining services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067d92 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Apr 2026 → 20 Apr 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published197 days ago
    8 Apr 2026, 10:04 BST
  2. Tender notice expected186 days ago
    20 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Department for Education

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawEducation Sanctuary Buildings, 20, Great Smith Street, London, UK, SW1P 3BTContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.