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# Test Operations Services 2025 con_25418

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/test-operations-services-2025-con-25418-ocds-h6vhtk-0345e5). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Education: "Test Operations Services 2025 con_25418". Published status: complete. Published Value: £180,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 28 Nov 2022, 10:00 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:** £180,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 28 November 2022 at 10:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive dialogue
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services, Primary education services, Printed matter and related products, Secondary education services
- **Delivery Location:** UK, UKE32
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £128,410,451 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0345e5`

## 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/test-operations-services-2025-con-25418-ocds-h6vhtk-0345e5#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [education.app.jaggaer.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.app.jaggaer.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/test-operations-services-2025-con-25418-ocds-h6vhtk-0345e5#participate

## Description
Contract award notice for the Test Operations 2025 contract for the provision of supporting services for the National Curriculum Assessments. The Terms and Conditions contain a maximum of two optional test cycles to 31/01/2032.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 22000000, 80100000, 80200000
- **Delivery regions:** UK, UKE

- **Estimated Value:** £180,000,000
- **Description:** The provision of all required supporting services to deliver National Curriculum Assessments including print, collation, scanning and marketing requirements, but excluding assessment formulation.
- **Contract Period:**  to 31/01/2031
- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 014725-2024-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Pearson Education Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-172443`
  - Value: £128,410,451 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 014725-2024-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £128,410,451
  - Signed Date: 14/04/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F014725-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-05-08T14:58:14.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T01:14:03.466Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0345e5