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title: "Pseudo-DPS for Alternative Education Provision (AP) 2024 - 2027"
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# Pseudo-DPS for Alternative Education Provision (AP) 2024 - 2027

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pseudo-dps-for-alternative-education-provision-ap-2024-2027-ocds-h6vhtk-0438da). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Bedford Borough Council: "Pseudo-DPS for Alternative Education Provision (AP) 2024 - 2027". Published status: active. Dynamic Market Estimate: £2,150,000. 3 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 28 Apr 2027, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: in-tendhost.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (open for submissions, 188 days left when this document was generated)
- **Buyer:** [Bedford Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/bedford-borough-council-ons-e06000055)
- **Dynamic Market Estimate (lifetime call-offs):** £2,150,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 28 April 2027 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 3
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Guidance and counselling services, Youth education services
- **Delivery Location:** UKH
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pseudo-dps-for-alternative-education-provision-ap-2024-2027-ocds-h6vhtk-0438da#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0438da`

## 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/pseudo-dps-for-alternative-education-provision-ap-2024-2027-ocds-h6vhtk-0438da#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fin-tendhost.co.uk%2Fbedford%2Faspx%2FHome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pseudo-dps-for-alternative-education-provision-ap-2024-2027-ocds-h6vhtk-0438da#participate

## Description
An Approved Provider List (APL) on a Pseudo-DPS of suitably-qualified suppliers to deliver Alternative Education Provision to children and young people who are unable to access mainstream education provision due to their social, emotional and mental health needs and/or behaviours that challenge. These services are intended to be short-term interventions aimed at enabling a child or young person to achieve good educational outcomes and reintegrate back into mainstream school in a supported way.The services to be provided comprise a mixture of education, tuition, individual support, coaching, mentoring and therapeutic services dependent on the needs of the children/young people being worked with. The local authority will determine the level of service to be provided to individual children/young people.Services will be in 3 Lots.

## Lots (3)
### Lot 1: Unregistered
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 80310000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Estimated Value:** £716,000
- **Description:** This Lot is reserved for 'unregulated' alternative provision [AP]. 'Unregulated' or 'unregistered' AP refers to settings not registered as schools or colleges (pre-16), though some may be registered for post-16 and offer education/training to school-...
- **Contract Period:** 28/04/2024 to 28/04/2027
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 2: Registered Schools
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 80310000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Estimated Value:** £716,000
- **Description:** This Lot is reserved for education providers offering a full time alternative to mainstream education, delivered in settings registered with either the Department for Education or regulated by Ofsted.
- **Contract Period:** 28/04/2024 to 28/04/2027
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 3: Virtual Online Providers
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 80310000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Estimated Value:** £716,000
- **Description:** This Lot is reserved for providers who will deliver a wholly or mainly virtual learning offer to Bedford Borough children and young people.
- **Contract Period:** 28/04/2024 to 28/04/2027
- **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%2F004440-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-02-09T13:46:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T18:46:57.443Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0438da