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LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON

Alternative Education Provision

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£4,000,000
Awarded20 Feb 2016
Published14 Feb 2017
RegionNationwide

£4,000,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£4.0mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£4.3m

This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The London Borough of Croydon invites suitable expressions of interest and tenders from suppliers for Alternative Education Provision The requirement: London Borough of Croydon invites suitable expression of interest from suppliers for Alternative Education Provision which will provide A framework is for learners in Key Stages 3 (Years 7-9) & 4 (Years 10 & 11) who have either been excluded from school or are at risk of exclusion from school.

This framework will support the offer from our PRUs and seeks providers who can offer high quality full time (25 hours) or part time alternative education provision that enables students to achieve academically and progress onto appropriate post-16 pathways.

At Key Stage 3 we are looking for providers who can offer a broad and balanced academic curriculum that enables students to make progress on a range of measures and be successfully reintegrated back to mainstream schools.

Providers at Key Stage 4 can offer academic and/or vocational pathways for learners.

All providers offering full time education must offer appropriate qualifications in English and mathematics up to Level 2 and be appropriately registered with Ofsted.

It is anticipated that the framework will contribute towards the following outcomes: Improving educational attainment at secondary level; Improving the opportunities for vulnerable children by narrowing the gap in attainment; and Increasing the proportion of 16-18 year olds in education, employment and training.

The framework is to be commissioned for three years, with a possible one year extension at the discretion of the London Borough of Croydon.

The framework will commence September 2016.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This framework will support the offer from

This framework will support the offer from our PRUs and seeks providers who can offer high quality full time (25 hours) or part time alternative education provision that enables students to achieve academically and progress onto appropriate post-16 pathways.

02

All providers offering full time education must

All providers offering full time education must offer appropriate qualifications in English and mathematics up to Level 2 and be appropriately registered with Ofsted.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Ofsted registrationsays mustRegulator registrations
All providers offering full time education must offer appropriate qualifications in English and mathematics up to Level 2 and be appropriately registered with Ofsted.

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