Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13c7a-3766-72de-9206-15e896bb3442/edtech-demonstrator-schools-and-colleges-programme-phase-2-evaluation-partner closed GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs # EdTech Demonstrator Schools and Colleges Programme - Phase 2: Evaluation Partner [Department for Education](https://tendernation.io/buyers/department-for-education) Open field Estimated value £150,000 Published 4 Mar 2021 Deadline Closed 15 Mar 2021 ## 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. - 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 DfE are looking to appoint a partner to evaluate the EdTech Demonstrator programme over 2021-22. The programme was launched April 2020 to offer peer support, advice and training in ways technology can be used to strengthen their remote education and catch-up provision. A separate procurement will be undertaken to appoint a delivery partner to oversee a digital advisory alliance, currently the 'EdTech Demonstrator Network' Evaluation will run from April 2021 to the end of the 2022 academic year. Throughout 2021-22, the programme will be responsible for ensuring use of technology is driven by pedagogy and business need. The network will offer support, advice and guidance centred on 5 KPIs: - Catch-up and recovery including ways technology can bolster pupil/student progress and outcomes, making education boundless anytime, anywhere; for example, through online and in-person teaching and supporting high-quality assessment and feedback. - Reducing teacher workload, including ways technology can remove unnecessary workload burdens, support more flexible teaching practices, improve access to excellent curriculum resources and develop professional bonds. - Strengthen school and college improvement plans; ensuring that adoption of technology has a clear plan and supported the wider aims of the school/college. - Support excellent school/college resource management, including ways technology can get the best value for money from their existing resources and securing informed procurement decisions where necessary - Securing a curriculum approach that ensures accessibility and inclusion, including focus on those pupils with SEND, and those who have been excluded/suspended. The evaluation partner will be responsible for: - Supporting the development of a diagnostic tool, used by the network to promote a consistent high-quality support offer. - Providing formative and summative evaluations, based on the network's revised KPIs. - Designing an evaluation framework, ensuring a high number of responses from supported schools / colleges. \*\*\*AMENDMENT\*\*\* Expressions of interest (EOI) are sought to conduct an interim and final evaluation for a second phase of the EdTech Demonstrator programme. To register interest in this opportunity, please select the following link and follow instructions - [contractsfinder.service.gov.uk](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5dc2d861-428a-4462-9b49-ef14f567f4da) The above link - EdTech Demonstrator Schools and Colleges Programme - Phase 2: Evaluation Partner reference: tender\_DFERPPU 20-21/050 updates and replaces this notice. We'll award a contract to a single supplier for the delivery of the services. 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