Tender

Supporting Holocaust Survivor Testimony in Teaching

  • Department for Education

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-030631

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0508f7 (view related notices)

Published 6 June 2025, 2:43pm



Scope

Description

The Department for Education (the department) is looking for a provider to help schools with fulfilling the ambition for young people to hear recorded survivor testimony by enabling access to support and guidance which they can continue to use in future years.

The programme will equip schools with tools, guidance and support, including signposting to high-quality sources for Holocaust survivor testimony. This will enable them to make the best use of this source material in teaching. It includes supporting schools to use new technological innovations around testimony and being mindful of the benefits and risks within such developments i.e. helping teacher/student digital literacy, and as with history sources, to critically engage with AI tools and recognise AI-generated misinformation.

The supplier will:

Develop and roll-out a resource pack supporting schools to use survivor testimony effectively in their teaching. This will provide assembly and lesson guidance (with a focus on history as a subject area), and use of survivor testimony from the wide array of existing resources available from expert organisations.

Provide Continuing Professional Development/in class-help to support schools to use testimony effectively.

Encourage further development of AI/VR resources relating to survivor testimony. By:

including in the resource pack guidance and help on how to best use this form of emerging technology within Holocaust education, and support schools to be sensitive to the use of such technology in the teaching of the Holocaust as per the IHRA conference recommendations on use of AI in Holocaust memory;

signposting to current high-quality provision; and

supporting schools with the hardware needed to access such software programmes by buying VR headsets and putting in place a mechanism for sharing these with schools in order to demonstrate the potential with this new technology.

The DfE is keen to maximise opportunities to participate in procurement for Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs). Consideration will also be given to consortia and collaborative bids from all forms of organisations.

For access to the full suite of tender documents and to participate in this opportunity please registrt on our e-tendering portal Jaggaer, https://education.app.jaggaer.com

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Total value (estimated)

  • £1,666,666.67 excluding VAT
  • £2,000,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 August 2025 to 31 March 2026
  • 8 months

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 80000000 - Education and training services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Submission

Enquiry deadline

24 June 2025, 12:00pm

Tender submission deadline

3 July 2025, 12:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

English

Award decision date (estimated)

31 July 2025


Award criteria

This table contains award criteria for this lot
Name Type Weighting
Technical (including Social Value) Quality 70%
Commercial Price 30%

Other information

Applicable trade agreements

  • Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Open procedure


Contracting authority

Department for Education

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDZG-3487-DPVD

Sanctuary Buildings, 20 Great Smith Street

London

SW1P3BT

United Kingdom

Contact name: Anne Hardy

Email: contact.schoolscommercial@education.gov.uk

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Organisation type: Public authority - central government