Specialist Education Framework Phase 1 – Independent Non-Maintained Special Schools Round 4

Descriptions

Nottinghamshire County Council (the Council) is seeking to add further Independent non-maintained Special Schools (INMSS) to the INMSS Framework under which the Council are looking to commission INMSS and Post-16 (where the provision is delivered in house by the school) provision of specialist school placements for pupils who are not attending mainstream or maintained special schools and who have an Education Health Care (EHC) Plan.

This process is the reopening of the framework for new providers to bid to join the INMSS framework and is the fourth tender round. This tender round is only open to bid to join the INMSS Approved Provider List which is Lot 2 of the Framework Agreement. The Council are not re-opening Lot 1 Block Contract in this tender round. Any providers who were unsuccessful in the previous tender rounds (1, 2 and 3) for Lot 2 can reapply in this tender round (4).

ANY PROVIDERS WHO HAVE ALREADY SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED IN PREVIOUS TENDER ROUNDS AND HAVE BEEN AWARDED A PLACE ON THE FRAMEWORK DO NOT NEED TO APPLY AGAIN IN THIS TENDER ROUND.

To register your interest in this tender and to view the tender documents, the tender is

published on https://www.eastmidstenders.org/

Reference DN784701

The closing date for all tenders is the 7th of November 2025 at 5.00pm.

Please note that a standstill period of 10 days will commence from the notification of the

contract award.