PROVISION OF PHONICS ROADSHOWS

Tender description

The purpose of this procurement is to Tender for up to two organisations to work with the Department to design, organise and deliver at least 20 local Phonics Roadshows before 31 March 2019. There are two contracts ("Lot A" and "Lot B") available, each to deliver at least 10 local Roadshows to a minimum of 400 teachers. • The contract for Lot A will be to deliver these Roadshows in the north of England (a list of local authority areas in the north of England can be found in attachment 6). • The contract for Lot B will cover the rest of England outside of the north. We are looking to award the contracts to up to two Tenderers. A provider can bid for both contracts if they wish, and should they meet the requirements and win the competitive process for both they could be awarded both contracts. Funding of up to £50,000 including VAT is available in 2018-19 for each contract, £100,000 including VAT in total to support this work. These events should be designed to promote effective teaching of systematic synthetic phonics in reception and key stage 1 (including the transition between these phases). The events should, in total, target a minimum of 800 teachers and school leaders (an average of 40 per event, but each event must be attended by a minimum of 15). The exact location of Roadshows is to be agreed with the Department for Education but bids should demonstrate an understanding of the areas where the bidder thinks that the Roadshows are needed - for example, areas where results in the phonics screening check are low and districts in Category 5 and 6 achieving excellence areas. Details of these areas can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defining-achieving-excellence-areas-methodology.