What the buyer wrote
The STA was set-up as an executive agency of the Department for Education (DfE) in October 2011. The purpose of the STA is to develop and administer National Curriculum Assessments (NCAs) and assessments in England as part of the government’s agenda to raise educational standards through structural change, school improvement strategies, and a rigorous accountability framework where tests in the core subjects, currently at the end of Year 6 form an important measure of children’s long-term education and life chances. The outcomes of the NCAs are published annually at an individual school level in the School Performance Tables by government and are an important factor in parental choice of sch…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Test Operations Services (TOpS)
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Aug 2017
- Work ends
- 31 Jan 2025
- Kind of work
- School improvement and support services
Who the buyer named
The buyer published a contact address on this notice.