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OpenStage · planning

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

Section 19

EducationCPV 80000000
Value£4.8m
Deadline
Published21 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
corporate.procurement@bolton.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£4.8mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£5.2m

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

Section 19 of the Education act 1996 is the statutory duty to provide suitable education for all children and young people of compulsory school age who cannot access mainstream school places.

This includes, permanently excluded pupils, and pupils who, because of illness or other reasons, cannot attend mainstream.

Provision will deliver this with regulated provision with Ofsted within Bolton .

The Authority intends to Direct Award this provision for one year to Bolton Impact Trust.

The service has an absence of competition for technical reasons including size of premises to support placements, and the provider expectation to deliver service for the whole of Bolton.

Only this supplier can supply the services required due to size and amount of the contract requirements and there are no reasonable alternatives to provide these services.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Section 19 of the Education act 1996

Section 19 of the Education act 1996 is the statutory duty to provide suitable education for all children and young people of compulsory school age who cannot access mainstream school places.

02

Provision will deliver this with regulated provision

Provision will deliver this with regulated provision with Ofsted within Bolton .

03

The service has an absence of competition

The service has an absence of competition for technical reasons including size of premises to support placements, and the provider expectation to deliver service for the whole of Bolton.

04

Only this supplier can supply the services

Only this supplier can supply the services required due to size and amount of the contract requirements and there are no reasonable alternatives to provide these services.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06cfbf
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
068655-2026
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