Education and training services

Tender description

Entrance Testing Services, divided into 2 lots: Lot 1 Secondary Selection Test Provision, and Lot 2 Test Administration Services. The successful providers are required to deliver the services in connection with pupil admission into Year 7 from 2019. The successful provider for Lot 1 is required to devise an appropriate Secondary Selection Test and provide related services. The successful provider for Lot 2 is required to provide test registration, test administration services and results and review services. The successful provider is required to devise an appropriate secondary selection test or tests that will be administered to pupils at the beginning of Year 6 or at the end of Year 5. The tests must be unique for TBGS, reliable and fair and ensure that consistency in standards from 1 year to the next is guaranteed. The successful provider is required to ensure that tests are marked accurately and that the test papers, test results and pupil details are stored securely. The successful provider is required to provide test registration, test administration services and results and reviews services; devise a registration system to collect information about pupils intending to take the secondary transfer tests; produce all direct communications and support parents and testing centres. Requirements include allocating pupils to testing centres, ensuring testing centres have capacity for the number of pupils taking the test and, if necessary, arranging for alternative testing venues.