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Flexible Learning and Support Services for Children and Young People

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is considering commissioning a Flexible Learning and Support Services Framework. Our aim is to provide a varied offer of services to our children and young people to support their education and/or Special Educational Needs & Disabilities. These services will be both statutory and non-statutory but provide enhanced levels of support to our young people at the right time and to meet particular need. The key aim of this framework is to provide local authority colleagues with a diverse selection of suppliers to draw upon, in order to provide our CYP with a wide range of provisions to support and enhance their learning, including services such as tutoring, mentoring, post 16 provision and online education platforms. As part of the decision-making process, the authority is undertaking a soft market test. This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about the potential service model and specification principles. The commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the potential specification. This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract. The authority is using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this particular service. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses, and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.

Classification

  • CPV80000000 — Education and training services
  • CPV85310000 — Social work services

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
25013
Status
planning
Above Threshold
Yes
Main Procurement Category
services

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Special regime

concession

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Contract period

Ends
31 Mar 2031, 23:59
Starts
1 Apr 2026, 00:00

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKG36
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
80000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Education and training services
Entry 2
Id
85310000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Social work services

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
012650-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
2 Apr 2025, 22:39

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
16 Apr 2025, 23:59
Description
A questionnaire has been created. The questionnaire is available on our portal: https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/blackcountryportal/aspx/ProjectManage/3856 The information gathered from this exercise will help shape future proposals including any potential tendering process and associated service specification. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to carrying out such a process. Participation or non-participation in the pre-procurement market engagement process shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the pre-procurement process shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in the pre-procurement market engagement procurement process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by the Council. This is not a call for competition.

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PWYJ-3537-GLBW
Name
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKG36
Country
GB
Locality
Dudley
Postal Code
DY1 1HF
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Council House, Priory Road

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Identifier

Id
PWYJ-3537-GLBW
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Dudley · UKG36 · DY1 1HF · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG36 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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