School Improvement Advisors

Following changes to the way Local Authorities are funded for school improvement activity, Gloucestershire Local Authority is in the position to expand its offer to schools through a traded model with a wider range of skills and services available to purchase.

The proposed Framework Agreement will allow additional external advisers to be recruited so that the council can offer an expanded School Improvement Adviser offer to our schools as well as additional services which advisers on the framework can offer

The Framework will be cost neutral to the council as it will only call-off the services of external advisers from the Framework Agreement when schools have purchased their advice/time.

New applications to the pseudo-framework will only be assessed three times a year, on the Friday of first week of the Gloucestershire School Terms 2, 4 and 6. Exact dates will be confirmed once school holidays are, via the link in section I.3 of this notice. We expect potential providers to meet a number of minimum standards; these are detailed in the ITT. We advise all interested providers to read the entire ITT and all documents referenced or linked to within the ITT carefully, to inform themselves about the opportunity and whether they would be interested in submitting a response.
Deadline for submitting a tender response in round 6 will be 20th February 2026.

Please login to Procontract via www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk and register your interest in the opportunity. All questions related to this contract should be sent using the discussions function which will be available once you have logged in and registered your interest.

Additional Information:
The Procurement Process
The Services required under this procurement fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) and is therefore not bound by all of its requirements. Consequently, the procurement process adopted by the Council has been developed in accordance with Regulation 76 of the regulations and in particular in accordance with the fundamental public procurement principles of transparency and equal treatment.

The Council will follow its own modified (pseudo) version of the Framework process prescribed under regulation 33. The modified process reflects the importance of the statutory requirements of the Council to the Children and Young People requiring support, the immediate nature of the services and maintains the principles of fairness, openness and transparency.

We would also request that we may approach your referees during the evaluation process. This should allow for a more timely reference process and allow assignments to be carried out as soon as feasibly possible.