Closed tender

Education Durham Select List of Specialist Providers

Details

Value
£540,000
Topic
Education and training services
Published
4 November 2025
Submission
5 December 2025

Tender description

This Agreement ("the Contract") is for a Select List of multiple external consultants who will be called on by Education Durham to provide support to Durham schools when required; to ensure the highest quality opportunities and outcomes for all children and young people in County Durham. The Select List being proposed here is to establish ways of supporting the work of Education Durham by supporting Durham Primary and Secondary schools/academies, with the following deliverables: • Delivery of School Leadership Advisors visits and Head Teacher Performance Management within schools. • providing guidance relating to Subject specific and/or areas of school improvement, including supporting schools in their self-evaluation through, for instance, work scrutiny; • planning and delivering courses and in-school contracts relating to Subject specific and/or areas of school; • providing as required, support to improve teaching through coaching and modelling best practice • supporting schools to ensure consistency of progression and inclusion; • Supporting schools to challenge underperformance in teaching wherever encountered. • Complete and evaluate in school contracts and training events • Participation in Education Durham planning and development activities, evaluated by Lead Advisors and Strategic Managers • planning and delivering courses and in-school contracts relating to Subject specific and/or areas of school; The need for additional support can be for a variety of reasons including, impending Ofsted Inspections, outcomes of an Ofsted Inspection resulting Schools being rated as "special measures" or "requires improvement". This is an open arrangement where suppliers can bid during the lifetime of the contract. The Council makes no guarantee to any Provider that they will be awarded any work under this Select Provider List and no guarantee is made in respect of any volume of work under any such agreement, or in aggregate under the contract. The Contract provides for no form of exclusivity and the Council is at all times entitled to enter into other contracts and agreements with other Providers for the provision of any of these Services. Each Provider should understand that their submission constitutes an acceptance to the Council of the terms of the Contract. The contract affords the Provider merely the opportunity to respond to an invitation from the Council for the provision of services. This is an Open list that allows for submissions to be received throughout the duration of the contract.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published4 November 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date5 December 2025

About the buyer

Durham County Council delivers local government services across County Durham, and buys as a local authority with its own corporate procurement team. Tenders and quotations are handled through the NEPO OPEN Portal, the council's online etendering system. Larger opportunities also appear on the government's Find a Tender Service under the Procurement Act 2023. Durham is one of twelve north-east councils sourcing goods and services through the North East Procurement Organisation. Specialist professional services can be sourced through the Bloom NEPRO framework across nineteen categories. The council also procures on behalf of additional public bodies beyond Durham itself.

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 Durham County Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, construction work and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 80000000 · Education and training services

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