Primary education services

Tender description

STA wish to re-establish a Trialling and Sampling Framework to carry out trials and sampling exercises for a range of DfE assessments. The new framework will be established by mid-2018 and will operate for a maximum of four years. Each year, around 560,000 children who have reached the end of key stage 1 and key stage 2, participate in a range of National Curriculum Tests (NCTs) (and from 2016 onwards, a similar number of pupils at the end of key stage 1 will also participate in National Curriculum Tests), and around 35,000 skills tests are sat each year. Each potential test item and the complete test is trialed with an appropriate target candidate. The required services include (but are not limited to): General: — Project Management, — Management Information, — Security, — Equalities, — Business Continuity, — Financial Requirements, — Resources, — Quality Assurance, — Exit and Transition. Technical: — Recruitment and management of schools and test centers, — Recruitment, training, and management of administrators, — Recruitment, training, and management of markers/coders, — Collection and distribution of assessment instruments, — Secure administration of tests in schools and test centers, — Test and pupil/candidate data handling, — Trial and sample admin reports, — Desktop Publishing, — Printing, — Marking/coding of test scripts, — Management of scripts during marking/coding, — Data capture and management, — Return of results. Indicative Procurement Timeline: — Trialling Framework 2019- 2022 (STA-0166) 16/06/2017 05/03/2018. — Publish PIN 13/12/2017 13/12/2017. — issue ITT 09/01/2018 09/01/2018. — supplier briefing 23/01/2018 23/01/2018. — deadline for clarification questions 02/02/2018 02/02/2018. — closing date for bids 09/02/2018 09/02/2018. — award notices 05/03/2018 05/03/2018.