COV - Monitoring and quality assurance of support given for school improvement services

The Council is to operate a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to support the evaluation of the effectiveness of support received for school improvement, to ensure schools are making good progress in accordance with The Education and Inspections Act 2006, which places a statutory duty on all local authorities in England, in exercising their functions in respect of maintained schools causing concern.

Each Service Contract 'Call-off' will be based on the delivery of a completed Quality Assurance Visit (QAV), per school.

The exact number of QAV's to be scheduled per school will be wholly dependent upon each school's individual requirements, therefore, the providers will be notified by the Council during the annual scheduling of work process, of the number of QAV's (days), per school.

Providers will be required to demonstrate the following: *Evidence of recent and relevant experience *Evidence of capacity to deliver services *Safeguarding arrangements which meet Coventry City Council and Children's Safeguarding Board standards *Ability to complete high quality reports

Providers are required to arrange and conduct formal monitoring visits to individual schools to: a) Verify the accuracy of the school's current position statement and to evaluate the appropriateness of the school's actions for improvement, as identified by the school. b) Discuss and provide evidence of how the school is addressing areas of underperformance. c) gather evidence and evaluate the impact of any support or intervention provided or commissioned.

Additional information: Please register via the Council`s e-procurement system - CSW-JETS http://www.csw-jets.co.uk/

CSW-JETS is a sub-regional e-tendering portal run by In-tend. Since February 2010, Coventry; Solihull; Warwickshire; Nuneaton and Bedworth; Rugby alongside other local district Councils have been working together as a shared procurement service. In conjunction with Solihull Community Housing, we have joined together to bring you a collaborative E-Tendering portal.

CSW-JETS enables us to advertise our opportunities across all authorities through the same system. This means that there is a single point of contact for procurement in the sub-region so you only have to register once to receive notifications for all authorities. Registering on the portal will make it easier for local suppliers to find, respond to and be alerted to tender opportunities.

Registration is free, and takes just a few minutes. When complete, you will be able to express interest in any of the Councils'/Authorities' opportunities when they are made available including this tender. In addition, we will be able to access your details whenever we have a requirement, and you may then be invited to tender or quote for work.

Once you are registered and log in to the system you will be able to locate the tender opportunity, express interest and access the documentation.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : Yes