Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) tenders, awards, and pre-procurement notices.

Ofsted is a non-ministerial department that inspects and regulates schools, childcare and children's social care. Suppliers are at times shortlisted from the Research Marketplace dynamic purchasing system. A service desk procurement uses the Government Commercial Agency's Technology Services 4 framework. Past tenders cover DBS services, independent complaints adjudication and a regulatory case management system. More than 2,000 inspectors are contracted directly to carry out inspections.

Over the past 5 years, most of Ofsted's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and office and computing equipment.