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Tuition - Educational Tutors

Buyer: Cheshire West and Chester Council →

BuyerCheshire West and Chester Council
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published28 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Cheshire West and Chester Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement with current and prospective tuition providers to inform the future procurement of tuition services for children and young people who are educated other than at school. The Council has a statutory duty under the Education Act 1996 to secure suitable education for children and young people who cannot attend school due to: • Medical needs, including Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) • Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (with or without an EHCP) • Permanent exclusion • Being a looked after child Currently, tuition services are spot purchased by multiple teams, including the Virtual School, SEN Team and Education Access Team. In 2024/25, approximately £1.4m of tuition services were procured in this way, with spend forecast to exceed £1m in 2025/26.

Delivery location

UKD6, GB

Categories

Education and training services 80000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 4 Jan 2027 to 3 Jan 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Education and training servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Education and training services (80000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 803,7932 median · 32.2 average (1,582 of 3,793 with a bid count)3.2 average (1,722 of 3,793 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKD673 median · 6.7 average (7 of 7 with a bid count)1.1 average (7 of 7 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Potential bidders are asked to review the document on the Chest, www.the-chest.org.uk and provide a reply to the email address provided. Follow up meetings will be available to approx. 6 shortlisted providers. We are keen to hear from large and small organisations and sole traders as the aim is to build up a framework of suppliers who can offer a varied tuition to meet the young persons needs.engagement22 May 2026scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-067a2d
Latest release ID038439-2026
Latest release timestampTue Apr 28 2026 10:23:11 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
28 Apr 2026planning038439-2026
1 Apr 2026planning030093-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
28 Apr 2026 · 038439-2026 · planning
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1 Apr 2026 · 030093-2026 · planning
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