Contract award · 23 Feb 2024

Specialist Education Framework Phase 1 - Independent Non-Maintained Special Schools Lots 1 and 2

Nottinghamshire County Council awarded a contract to Acorn Education and Care Services Ltd, Dove Adolescent Services Ltd, Edison Young People for £135m.

Education & trainingEast Midlands

Open competition

Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.

Key facts

Buyer
Nottinghamshire County Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£134,500,000
Procedure
Open procedure
Sector
Education & training · Education and training services (CPV 80000000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date23 Feb 2024
  2. Published10 Jan 2025Published 322 days after the contract date

Description

Nottinghamshire County Council ('the Council') are running an open tender process to establish a new framework under which the Council are looking to commission Independent non-maintained special schools (INMSS) and Post-16 (where the provision is delivered in house by the school) for the provision of specialist school placements for pupils who are not attending mainstream or maintained schools and who have an Education Health Care (EHC) Plan.\r \r The establishment of a framework agreement for INMSS is the first phase of the recommissioning of the Specialist Education provision for the Council as set out in the Vision document. Ultimately the framework will be extended to include Alternative Education Provision and Post-16 institutions (e.g., further education colleges that are not part of the INMSS), that will be the second/third phases of the recommissioning project and new procurement processes will be run at later dates which are yet to be decided.\r \r A Framework Agreement is a…

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