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# Notification of competition

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/notification-of-competition-ocds-h6vhtk-0397fa). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Education: "Notification of competition". Published status: complete. Published Value: £200,000. 2 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 10 Feb 2023, 23:59 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:** £200,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 10 February 2023 at 23:59 GMT
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £49,740 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0397fa`

## 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/notification-of-competition-ocds-h6vhtk-0397fa#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/notification-of-competition-ocds-h6vhtk-0397fa#participate

## Description
To boost existing efforts to address low levels of adult numeracy, the UK Government has committed up to £559 million for a new, three year, adult numeracy programme called Multiply. Through the programme, all adults aged 19+ who want to improve their numeracy (up to, and including, Level 2 or equivalent), who do not currently have a GCSE Grade 4 / C or equivalent in maths, whether in employment or not, will be able to access free flexible courses that fit around their lives, whether that be at work or in the evening, part time or intensive. 
An important part of Multiply is to strengthen the evidence base around what works in the successful delivery of adult numeracy programmes and to share this with practitioners, in order to inform local delivery and to increase positive outcomes. 
This will include a programme of up to 30 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and other experimental activity, including quasi-experimental trials to robustly test promising approaches to improving adult numeracy. The trials will be split across two tranches: 
•	Tranche 1 (to which this Invitation to Tender applies) will be procured in Spring 2023, with fieldwork starting from August 2023 onwards and interim results from some trials delivered in late spring 2024. We expect around 15-20 trials to be undertaken in this tranche of activity, with fieldwork, analysis and reporting running until at least the end of March 2025.

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** To boost existing efforts to address low levels of adult numeracy, the UK Government has committed up to £559 million for a new, three year, adult numeracy programme called Multiply. Through the programme, all adults aged 19+ who want to improve thei...

### Lot 1,2 & 3: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1,2 & 3`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 80000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £200,000
- **Description:** The development of products to be tested in Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) as part of the What Works strand of the Multiply Programme - Lot 2
- **Contract Period:** 14/03/2023 to 18/08/2023

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** the development of products for Multiply RCTs (Lot 1 Learning Support Skills Expertise) con_ (active)
  - Award id: `016015-2023-project_7782-1`
  - Supplier(s): **National Numeracy**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-184528`
  - Value: £49,740 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** the development of products for Multiply RCTs (Lot 1 Learning Support Skills Expertise) con_ (active)
  - Signed Value: £49,740
  - Signed Date: 11/05/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016015-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-06-06T14:06:43.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T06:07:43.927Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0397fa