Acclimatisation support and services for international teachers

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The Department for Education (DfE) supports schools in recruiting the teachers they need. It recognises that the strengthening economy and growth in pupil numbers make the situation more challenging and that this is more acute in certain subjects and schools and areas of the country. The National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) is seeking to tender a contract to provide 'acclimatisation' support and services to include, for example, international qualified teachers (up to a maximum of 250), re-locating to take up posts in English schools in the academic year 2017/18. We anticipate that we will be in a position to provide greater clarification on the numbers requiring these services in mid-May 2017.

Additional information: A Supplier WebEx event will be held w/c 20th February 2017 to all potential bidders. This may be an opportunity to seek for interested parties a consortia, however please note this will be whilst the tender is open and will reduce the time you have to put together a bid.

To register your attendance for the supplier WebEx, please email acclimatisation.SUPPORT@education.gov.uk and we will provide further details in due course.

The invitation to bid will be launched and managed through the NCTL e-procurement system, REDIMO2. Bidders who are not already registered on REDIMO2, will need to register their company details on the NCTL e-procurement portal in order to access this tender opportunity. Information about how to register is available at Https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/account/login/?cid=DFE