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London Borough of Merton

Non-Maintained and Independent Special Schools (NMISS) Placement Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£10.0m
Deadline3 Apr 2028
Published7 Nov 2022
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 7 Nov 2022619 days leftCloses 3 Apr 2028
Who to contact
Supply Chain Team
supplychains@useadam.co.uk

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Contract value in context
£10.0mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£10.8m

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.

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The brief

The London Borough of Merton (“the Council”) is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to make placements for Children and Young People (CYP) with Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans in the Non-Maintained and Independent Special Schools (NMISS).

The DPS will go live on 3rd April 2023 and will remain open to schools to apply to join at any time until 3rd April 2028.

The Council is working with adam HTT Ltd to introduce a web-based system, adam Procure, to manage the DPS.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-037f71
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
031325-2022
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