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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

Step Up to Social Work Cohort Five (and Six) - support contractor

Business ServicesCPV 79600000 85300000
Value£300k
Awarded20 Oct 2016
Published31 Jan 2017
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£300ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

A contractor to provide information, coordination and administrative support to local authorities grouped in regional partnerships to assess an anticipated application pool of c.6,000 – 8,000 and recruit 550 applicants to the fifth cohort of the Step Up to Social Work programme.

The contractor will also support these regional partnerships in planning the recruitment of applicants, designing and hosting IT-based application data capture systems and providing an administrative support and staffing function for both stage one application assessment and stage two regional partnership assessment centres.

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What the supplier must deliver

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A contractor to provide information, coordination

A contractor to provide information, coordination and administrative support to local authorities grouped in regional partnerships to assess an anticipated application pool of c.6,000.

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Stage
contract · Contract
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