Stale Pre-tender

SEND Cluster Model Transformation

Details

Buyer: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Value: £104,170
Topic: Education and training services
Published: 21 August 2025
Submission: 4 September 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This was a below-threshold tender for the procurement of a SEND Development Programme in Stoke-on-Trent. The programme is funded through the Council's approved Transformation Budget and aims to build sustainable capacity within the school system to better meet the needs of children and young people with SEND. It seeks to reduce reliance on statutory processes and specialist placements, while embedding inclusive practice across all educational settings. The appointed provider will deliver the programme through a hybrid model, combining in-person and virtual engagement. Key elements, including launch events, coaching sessions, and peer review activities, will be delivered face-to-face to support effective relationship-building and drive meaningful cultural change.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published21 August 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local authority, and its Category Management team runs procurement from the Civic Centre. Contract opportunities are listed on the council's own tender-search portal and on the government's Contracts Finder service. Pro-Contract, the Supply Stoke and Staffordshire portal, hosts contract opportunities shared across Staffordshire councils. A Commercial Pipeline gives suppliers advance notice of upcoming contracts before they are formally advertised. Every tendering procedure follows the council's own Procurement Code alongside the Procurement Act 2023. An awarded contracts directory publishes the outcome of every past tender for suppliers to review.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

80000000 · Education and training services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov