STA exemplification and standardisation materials

This ITT is by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA), on behalf of the Department for Education, to carry out a competitive procurement exercise to award a contract for video and material creation services.

This contract will be for a minimum of one year, with an optional extension, subject to the requirements and budgetary approval of STA. The value of the initial term (1 year) is expected to be £60-100k. The maximum contract value, if the maximum extension is enacted by STA, is therefore expected to be £120-200k.

STA requires external creation services for:

Standardisation trial:

- Creation of three pupil Standardisation scripts and commentaries for key stage 2 (KS2) teacher assessment following the existing standardisation format

- Creation of two teacher judgment videos supporting two of the pupil scripts

- Creation of three teacher judgment transcripts supporting all the pupil scripts

- Creation of 2-3 additional pupil materials, per pupil script example, in accordance with current Standardisation exercise material format

- Completion of user testing feedback to provide clear understanding and comparison between video and transcript user feedback

- Quality assurance review of all created materials

Exemplification materials:

STA requires external professional proofing, enhancing and creation services for:

- Proofing, enhancing and quality assurance review of existing KS2 teacher assessment frameworks exemplification materials;

- Creation and quality assurance review of new KS2 teacher assessment frameworks exemplification materials.

For more information and to bid for this contract, please visit the Department for Education's e-tendering portal: https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html