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Published 2 Jul 2025, 09:03 BST

This notice announces an administrative change to an existing contract or market (a contract change notice). No new tender or admission is opened here; see the linked notices below for the original opportunity.

Official UK procurement notice

Professional Learning Service Tool

Official notice

Authority: Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government (Central government)

Direct award
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: Wales (UKL)
Awarded value£200,000published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 22 Jul 2025no call for competition
Awarded to EduPlanet 21 LLC

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Contract details notice, following the publication of a transparency notice and contract award notice.

To appoint a supplier to continue access to a bilingual asynchronous professional learning tool. This unique product has bespoke design features intended to support an understanding of curriculum design expectations for schools and settings across Wales, coherent with a purpose-led, process orientated Curriculum for Wales. The supplier in question holds exclusive rights for the tool in the form of intellectual property rights.

The contractor is required to support Welsh Government with preparation and delivery of professional learning, focussing on:

  1. The key components of the Curriculum for Wales Framework and its practical requirements in schools and settings.
  2. The strategies that may be used to help design an engaging and agile curriculum based on learner progression coherent with Curriculum for Wales.
  3. Considerations for school planning, designing and implementing Curriculum for Wales.
  4. The purpose of assessment in Curriculum for Wales and its requirements for designing assessment arrangements to support learner progression.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: Wales
80000000 Education and training services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Administrative change
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
2 Jul 2025, 09:03 BST
Last source update
5 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST
Authority reference
C215/2025/2026
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053309
Latest notice
Contract change notice (UK10)
Delivery area
Wales (UKL)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055731 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Intellectual Property Exclusive Rights
Published justification

This notice is to confirm the Authority’s decision to award a contract to Eduplanet 21 for the continued use of a bilingual asynchronous professional learning tool to support practical curriculum design within the context of a process orientated Curriculum for Wales. The supplier in question holds exclusive rights for the tool in the form of intellectual property rights. As was noted in the previously published Transparency Notice and Contract Award Notice, it is the opinion of Welsh Government that the contract in question satisfies the requirements of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 with justification for the direct award of a contract as Eduplanet21 hold the exclusive rights including intellectual property rights for the development of the service. Therefore the requirements of paragraph 41 Direct award in special cases and Schedule 5 part (5) (a) (b) apply to the contract.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Aug 2025 → 5 Jun 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Standstill ends
    1 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
  2. Notice published141 days ago
    5 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST

Notice history

6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Jul 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    2 Jul 2025, 09:03 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    23 Jul 2025, 14:48 BST
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    31 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled
  4. Contract details notice published
    11 Sept 2025, 09:50 BST
    UK7
  5. Contract change notice published
    5 Jun 2026, 12:51 BST
    UK10
  6. Contract change proposed
    8 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
    The supplier currently delivering the works owns the intellectual property rights of the system that requires additional testing, and so no other supplier is capable of delivering the additional services. As stated in previous notices, it is the opinion of Welsh Government that the contract in question satisfies the requirements of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 with justification for the direct award of a contract as Eduplanet21 hold the exclusive rights including intellectual property rights for the development of the service. It is the opinion of Welsh Government, that this modification satisfies the requirements of Schedule 8, Section 74 of the Procurement Act 2023.
Routine re-releases (4)
  • 2025-07: 1 release · 2 Jul 2025

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £200,0001 award exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 29 Aug 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
EduPlanet 21 LLCSME1 Sept 2025 – 31 Aug 2028 · up to 31 Aug 2029Extensions: Up to one 12 month extension option £200,00022 Jul 2025Awarded

Contracts

  • Professional Learning Service Tool · EduPlanet 21 LLCSME

    Signed
    29 Aug 2025
    Value
    £450,000
    Period
    1 Sept 2025 – 31 Aug 2028 · up to 31 Aug 2030 with extensions
    Status
    active
    Extensions
    2 x 12 month extension options
    • Change proposed 8 Jun 2026 The supplier currently delivering the works owns the intellectual property rights of the system that requires additional testing, and so no other supplier is capable of delivering the additional services. As stated in previous notices, it is the opinion of Welsh Government that the contract in question satisfies the requirements of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 with justification for the direct award of a contract as Eduplanet21 hold the exclusive rights including intellectual property rights for the development of the service. It is the opinion of Welsh Government, that this modification satisfies the requirements of Schedule 8, Section 74 of the Procurement Act 2023., new value £500,000

    No agreed KPIs: Cannot be appropriately assessed through KPIs.

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PQYQ-3841-BHTP Gwasanaethau Caffael Corfforaethol / Corporate Procurement Services, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 3NQContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • EduPlanet 21 LLCAwarded supplierGB-PPON: PQBG-6697-QPZV 10 Spring View Court, Mechanicsburg, US, PA17050, USContact email

Official documents & specifications (4)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract change notice contractContract change noticeUK10Contract change notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender