RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · tender 17 days to close

Arts Council England

ACE 1012 ITQ - Cultural Education Network One-to-One Evaluation

Business ServicesCPV 79419000
Value£15k
Deadline21 Sept 2026
Published3 Sept 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 3 Sept 202617 days leftCloses 21 Sept 2026
Who to contact
Mary Ealden
Mary.Ealden@artscouncil.org.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/4HGGU76XS5

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£15ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits below the typical range for Business Services contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Arts Council England publishes Business Services work continuously — 44 notices, roughly one every 12 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

18% of Arts Council England’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →


You'll hear when Arts Council England publishes Business Services work again. One email per notice, unsubscribe in one click. We don’t use your address for anything else.

Match for your company
Sign up free to see how well this tender matches your company — the score, the signals that align, and where the gaps are.
The brief

Arts Council England are seeking a suitably qualified Supplier to evaluate the Cultural Education Network’s free offer of one-to-one support from its launch in March 2025, to present day.

This new programme offers mentoring, coaching, and signposting through free, online one-to-ones for teachers, freelance teaching artists and staff at creative and cultural organisations across England to improve children and young people’s access to learning in, with and through arts and culture.

The supplier will provide a clear, evidence-based picture of how the Cultural Education Network’s one-to-ones have impacted the professional practice of teachers and cultural educators, by capturing and evaluating qualitative data and providing insight and actionable suggestions for next steps as we further develop this programme.

What it takes to bid this

59 daysof bid-team effort
£3.4k£6.2kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the under £100k band — an estimate, not a quote.

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

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
  • Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at Arts Council England, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Sign up free to unlock buyer intelligence

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Deep dive · beta

The full intelligence dossier

Our agent reads Arts Council England’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.

Sign up free to run a deep dive

Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.

Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f1b2
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
083662-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Business Services

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.

Arts Council England’s tender network

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.
Also open now

Similar open tenders

Supply of Higher Educational Consultancy Services in India

UNIVERSITY OF DERBY

Closes 30 Sept 2026Business Services
£350kValue

Payroll Services for Germany Network 2026

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Closes 20 Sept 2026Business Services
£300kValue