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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

North East Lincolnshire Council is launching a Flexible Alternative Provision Framework to guarantee that children and young people who require temporary out‑of‑school education receive high‑quality, safe, and purposeful learning experiences. The open framework will be awarded across five distinct lots, each addressing a specific educational need: Lot 1 will deliver engagement pathways tailored to pupils with social, emotional, mental health, and behavioural needs; Lot 2 will provide personalised tutoring for all key stages, including students with special educational needs and disabilities; Lot 3 will offer structured, high‑quality online schooling for those unable to attend physical settings; Lot 4 will equip young people with vocational training and life‑skills to support independence and employability; and Lot 5 will supply regulated alternative provision for Key Stages 1‑4, delivered exclusively by Ofsted‑registered independent providers.

All lots are designed to foster renewed engagement, build confidence, and facilitate progression towards reintegration into mainstream education, training, or suitable next‑step settings. The framework emphasises safeguarding, wellbeing, and child and family voice, alongside delivery model, outcomes and social value, and is intended to be renewed annually, with potential extensions under the Authority’s discretion.

All provisions must meet safeguarding, wellbeing, child and family voice, delivery model, outcomes, and social value criteria, with Ofsted registration mandatory for Lot 5.

Nottingham City Council seeks a Framework Member to supply staff services for a Severe Weather Emergency Protocol, providing a highly visible, static presence at designated temporary sleeping sites within the city boundary. The appointed supplier will deploy uniformed personnel equipped to maintain a continuous, safe environment for rough sleepers, including those with drug, alcohol, or mental health needs, and will ensure at least one staff member remains present in each location at all times. The role involves coordination and supervision by a contract manager who will oversee key‑holding responsibilities, operations, and all activities carried out by the staff, in line with the framework terms.

During severe weather the council will open multiple shared sleeping sites, and the supplier must be ready to mobilise staff within 48 hours of notification to guarantee safety and signposting to additional services. The framework allows for reserve suppliers and direct award call‑offs, with flexibility to modify capacity, location, hours, and pricing as circumstances require. Staff must be available on site within 48 hours of severe weather notification.

The Ministry of Defence is awarding a five‑year fully managed service contract for the continued support, sustainment and enhancement of the Gladiator and Spartan core systems. This procurement focuses on delivering a high‑fidelity distributed synthetic training capability that links simulators, maritime platforms and tactical data links to create scalable, multi‑domain training scenarios for the Royal Navy and allied Force Elements. The contract includes the development of a central hub that will evolve from the existing Gladiator architecture into a new Maritime Synthetic Training Hub, providing real‑time scenario development, execution and debriefing while integrating new digital assets, terrains and threat representations.

Key deliverables for the contractor encompass system maintenance, capability expansion, platform integration, and cross‑service interoperability, ensuring that the differentiated requirements of the Royal Navy’s Spartan programme are incorporated into the broader defence training environment. The scope is secured with the need for Personal Security Clearances up to SECRET and recognises a high cyber risk profile, obliging strict cyber resilience measures. All systems shall operate within the confines of Defence and Security provisions of the Procurement Act, maintain continuous interoperability across Defence Forces, and support the generation and delivery of training scenarios via tactical data links.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seeks to enhance its in‑house expertise with additional external providers capable of delivering rigorous assessments of regulatory data for medicines, medical devices and blood components. The provider network will expand MHRA’s capacity to analyse complex clinical, non‑clinical and quality information, thereby ensuring that marketing authorisation applications, clinical trial applications and other compliance activities meet the agency’s safety and efficacy standards and support the growth of the UK life sciences sector.

To achieve this, MHRA is issuing a framework contract divided into three distinct lots. Lot 1 covers the assessment of pharmaceutical and quality data in accordance with Module 3 and the quality sections of Module 2 of the Common Technical Document; Lot 2 addresses the evaluation of clinical, statistical and clinical pharmacology information under Module 5 and the clinical sections of Module 2; and Lot 3 focuses on non‑clinical data assessment per Module 4 of the Common Technical Document. Each lot will award up to four suppliers, with flexible deployment of resources to enable the regulator to adjust capacity in response to growing demand. Award decisions will consider commercial, technical and social value criteria in balanced proportions.

All assessment activities must comply with the relevant sections of the Common Technical Document and adhere to the highest standards of quality and evidence-based judgement.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is inviting specialist providers to supply Medicines Licensing Assessor Services across three distinct procurement lots. The agency aims to enhance its in‑house expertise by engaging external suppliers capable of carrying out rigorous assessments of complex regulatory data for marketing authorisation, clinical trial applications, and other compliance activities. The procurement is structured to secure experts in pharmaceutical, medical, and non‑clinical assessment, each lot representing a separate focus area in the overall product evaluation framework.

Suppliers must deliver evidence‑based judgments within an MHRA assessment and quality assurance framework, assessing data in accordance with the Common Technical Document modules: Module 3 and the relevant sections of Module 2 for pharmaceutical quality, Module 5 and the relevant sections of Module 2 for clinical, statistical and pharmacological data, and Module 4 for non‑clinical data. Eligibility requires demonstrable capacity and capability to provide flexible, high‑quality assessments that align with MHRA’s patient‑safety and regulatory objectives. Suppliers are expected to meet the stated technical standards and quality expectations as described.