Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13c48-f13c-727a-868e-ce0e729e4993/women-leading-in-education-leadership-coaching-pledge awarded GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs # Women Leading in Education: Leadership Coaching Pledge [Department For Education](https://tendernation.io/buyers/department-for-education) Open field Estimated value £84,000 Published 13 Dec 2018 Deadline Closed 21 Jan 2019 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. - Buyer says suitable for VCSEs The buyer ticked “suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises” on the notice. - Small contract value Valued under £135,018 including VAT, the lowest Procurement Act threshold for goods and services. - Open procedure Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender The Department is looking to appoint a provider to maximise engagement with the Coaching Pledge on a national scale through marketing, promotion, including through events and through engagement with regional partners. The Contractor will report regularly to DfE on its work and on the overall quality of Coaching Pledge provision across England. The Contractor will be required to increase the sign-up of coaches by 500 volunteers nationally and use regional expertise to increase the number of participants by 10% per region. To support this we would expect the provider to use regional and/or strategic partnerships, existing organisation and providers We require 40% of registered participants in each region to be matched with a coach and a minimum of 5% of participants from each region to be returners, part-time or flexible workers looking to gain a leadership position. Matching events should ensure that sustained matches are created. The provider will be required to carry out a minimum of 20 matching events to take place nationally with a minimum of 70% of events being face to face and up to 30% of events using online/telephone matching. We would require the national provider to ensure that there is a sufficient regional spread for any matching events planned and hosted. We would require the national provider to create a communications and engagement strategy and promote events using a range of methods, this includes: Use of digital communications, including social media, email bulletins, twitter ### Road shows ### Promotion via local teach meets ### Engagement with headteacher groups Engagement with other stakeholder groups in the education sector ### Press releases Advertising in national publications Advertising via the radio. With this contract we would want to move away from training being the key priority and instead require the main focus of the successful bidder to be on matching events (ensuring sustained matches between coaches and participants) and increasing the number of coaches nationally. We would still require the successful tenderer to suggest new methods and improve the way matching events occur alongside training and quality assurance. Matching and increasing take-up are the key deliverables of this contract. The National Provider will be working with the Teaching Schools Council on improvements to the existing website, which contains the database. Feedback on this has been positive from both coaches and participants, however, the Department would require the National provider to work with the TSC communications lead to develop and provide continuous improvement suggestions to the TSC website and improve the user experience for coaches and participants. The contract will incorporate service level agreements for how the engagement process should work in practice and details of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for the provider, including how these will impact on their engagement with the TSC. Additional information: Access to the tender documentation is through the DfE e-tendering portal: [education.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml](https://education.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml) This is the only way the documents are accessible Read full description ## CPV classification Education and training services Source Contracts Finder (UK) [View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/de8770f9-c257-4f64-b76c-a2b2996dc10e) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. 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