Decision details

Permission is being sought to utilise the 1 year extension period built into the Council’s contract to deliver the local authority statutory duty around Key Stage 2 (KS2) statutory moderation.
External moderation is statutory. It gives confidence that schools’ Teacher Assessment (TA) judgements are accurate and consistent with national standards, as specified in the TA frameworks and exemplification materials.
LAs are required to externally moderate at least 25% of maintained schools. They are also expected to externally moderate at least 25% of academies and participating independent schools that opt into the LA’s external moderation provision. LAs must ensure all schools they are responsible for are moderated at least once every 4 years (excluding 2020 and 2021), or more frequently if required.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) was issued on the Due North Portal “The Chest” with a return date of the 30 August 2022. ITT submissions were received from 1 organisation. A comprehensive evaluation process was undertaken by an evaluation panel and a scoring moderation meeting was held on the 1 September 2022. The
outcome of this process was that the organisation met the criteria and were awarded the contract for 1 year with the option to extend for a further 1 year.

RESOLVED - That:
To lead the statutory moderation, the Lead Moderator must have passed the Standardisation Exercise 1 test for KS2, have the relevant skills, knowledge and experience as outlined in the contract, which went through the procurement processes and was awarded to the organisation.
Therefore, permission is being sought to approve the decision to extend the contract for 1 year.

Option 1 - Approval for the 1 year extension of contract
Option 2 - Not to extend the contract or re-tender the service provision

A comprehensive evaluation process was undertaken by an evaluation panel and a scoring moderation meeting was held on the 1 September 2022. The outcome of this process was that One Education Ltd met the criteria and were awarded the contract for 1 year with an option to extend for a further 1 year.
To lead the statutory moderation, the Lead Moderator must have passed the Standardisation Exercise 1 test for KS2, have the relevant skills, knowledge and experience as outlined in the contract, which went through the procurement processes and was awarded to the One Education Ltd.