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Education Durham Select List of Specialist Providers
Durham County Council · Local authority
In brief
Durham County Council was looking for suppliers for training and education work. Bidding has closed and no award has been published yet.
The estimated value is £540,000 excluding VAT.
The contract runs for 1 year, up to 3 years with extensions, starting 1 March 2026.
The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.
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What the notice says
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…Read the full 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
- Tender notice · UK4, notice 070951-2025
About the buyer
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From notice 070951-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 4 November 2025. We last checked for changes on 27 September 2026.