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# Provision of Education Quality Assurance Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-education-quality-assurance-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04101c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Nursing and Midwifery Council: "Provision of Education Quality Assurance Services". Published status: active. Published Value: £5,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 13 Dec 2023, 17:00 GMT. Published submission portal: nmcprocurementportal.force.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [The Nursing and Midwifery Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-nursing-and-midwifery-council-GB-PPON-PHCH-9173-QTMH)
- **Published Value:** £5,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 13 December 2023 at 17:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services, Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-education-quality-assurance-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04101c#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04101c`

## 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/provision-of-education-quality-assurance-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04101c#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [nmcprocurementportal.force.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnmcprocurementportal.force.com%2Fs%2FWelcome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-education-quality-assurance-services-ocds-h6vhtk-04101c#participate

## Description
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as the Contracting Authority wishes to establish a potential contract with a third-party delivery partner to undertake Quality Assurance of educational institutions across the UK on their behalf to ensure protection of the public. 
Quality Assurance (QA) of education is one of the key regulatory activities of the NMC. It gives us the confidence that education institutions are meeting our standards for education and training. This helps us to know that students who have successfully completed an approved programme are meeting the standards of proficiency that we require before they join our register and deliver safe, kind and effective care - it's one of the ways we fulfil our duty to protect the public. If QA identifies that an education institution isn't meeting our standards, we must take action so the education institution returns to compliance. This will ensure that there is public confidence in our role in nursing, midwifery and nursing associate education and encourages the education institution to remain responsible for meeting our standards. 
The responsibilities of the NMC for education and training are set out in the Nursing and Midwifery Order (The Nursing and Midwifery Order, Part IV Education and Training, 2001). The NMC has a responsibility to ensure that education institutions providing education and training of nurses, midwives and nursing associates meet our requirements and standards. 
The role of the Quality Assurance Service Partner (QASP) will be directed towards monitoring activities, including coordinating and facilitating monitoring visits, extraordinary reviews and listening events, along with supporting annual monitoring, undertaking thematic analysis and identifying trends in intelligence and making recommendations to support our QA decision-making. This shift of focus provides an opportunity to review our education QA requirements, as we look to procure a QASP best able to support us to fulfil our regulatory function, offering agility and innovative solutions to implementing the QA framework, ensuring that our EDI Strategy and plan remains at the forefront of the work we do, as move to indefinite approval and focus on robust risk-based monitoring.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85100000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £5,500,000
- **Description:** The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as the Contracting Authority wishes to establish a potential contract with a third-party delivery partner to undertake Quality Assurance of educational institutions across the UK on their behalf to ensure prote...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F031986-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-10-30T13:03:57.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T15:39:30.458Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04101c