# Standards and Testing Agency - Item Writing Call-Off - Contract Awarded

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [National Foundation for Educational Research \(NFER](/contract-winners/national-foundation-for-educational-research-nfer/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £93,418
- Tender value: £93,418
- Award date: 21 August 2024
- Published: 22 August 2024
- Contract start: 9 September 2024
- Contract end: 31 December 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: a24bac67-ac63-4e48-ab03-58b1827ef21e-779678
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-fcfec778-e97a-4a6e-a420-d9592d41f00f

## Description

AWARD NOTICE This call-off contract is let under the terms and conditions of the Item Writing Services Framework Agreement STA-0246 and is for the provision of item writing services for Key Stage 2 English Reading Work Package 1, Informal trialling of eight key stage 2 texts and a proportion of their associated items\. Work Package 1 consists of: - informally trialling: - three easy fiction KS2 texts and all associated items \(approximately 30 marks' worth of items for each text that will include one and two mark items\) - one mid non-fiction KS2 text and all associated items \(approximately 40 marks' worth of items that will include one, two and three mark items\) - four hard fiction KS2 texts and all associated items \(approximately 30 marks' worth of items for each text that will include one, two and three mark items\)\. - meeting to discuss findings and recommended changes to items - submission of an informal trialling report, including findings and proposed amendments to the materials\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a24bac67-ac63-4e48-ab03-58b1827ef21e-779678)