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Department for Education

Digital Assessment Item Validation Trial Administration STA 0166 Call Off 11

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£96k
Awarded9 Jul 2020
Published7 Sept 2020
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£96ktotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£2.4m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Education & Training band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The STA's remit is to deliver national curriculum assessments for English Reading, English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Science and Mathematics and the Reception Baseline Assessment for use in schools.

During the development of the assessments, items are trialled in schools to ensure the quality and validity of the final live assessments.

From September 2020, it is intended that the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) will become statutory.

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) intends to deliver the first Item Validation Trial (IVT) for the digital version of the RBA (DRBA) in November.

STA needs to recruit around 120 schools in order to allow 1,200 pupils to trial the assessment.

This is an assessment that is being developed in-house, so that it can replace the current supplier's product, once their contract comes to an end in August 2022.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The STA's remit is to deliver national

The STA's remit is to deliver national curriculum assessments for English Reading, English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Science and Mathematics and the Reception Baseline Assessment for use in schools.

02

During the development of the assessments, items

During the development of the assessments, items are trialled in schools to ensure the quality and validity of the final live assessments.

03

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) intends

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) intends to deliver the first Item Validation Trial (IVT) for the digital version of the RBA (DRBA) in November.

04

STA needs to recruit around 120 schools

STA needs to recruit around 120 schools in order to allow 1,200 pupils to trial the assessment.

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