Contract(s) for the provision of Governance Leadership Development and/or Clerking Development across the 8 Regional School Commissioner (RSC) regions of England between 2017-18 and 2019-2020

The Department for Education (DfE) intends to procure contract(s) to deliver Governance Leadership Development and/or Clerking Development to the boards of state-funded institutions providing education to children of compulsory school age across the 8 Regional School Commissioner (RSC) regions of England between 2017-18 and 2019-2020. The aim of the contract(s) is to build the capacity of governing boards across the country through a focus on supporting chairs to drive change in their boards and professionalising the quality of clerking support.

This procurement pertains to establishments that are maintained by a local authority (LA) and those establishments with whom the Secretary of State has entered into academy arrangements, including primary and secondary maintained schools and academies, special schools and special academies, free schools, UTCs, studio schools and alternative provision institutions that are LA maintained or are academies. It does not cover further and higher education providers such as 6th Form Colleges, FE Colleges and Universities, or educational institutions outside of England.

Additional information: The contract will run from November 2017 to March 2019 with provision to extend up to twice for a further one-year period. The estimated total value of funding available to contractors is up to £2.4m in 2017-2019 with the possibility of up to £1.45m additional funding in 2019-2020 and 2020 - 2021 subject to possible contract extensions and the availability of funding.

The invitation to bid will be managed through the DfE e-procurement system, REDIMO2. Bidders who are not already registered on REDIMO2, will need to register their company details on the DfE e-procurement portal in order to access this tender opportunity.