Diamond Learning Partnership Trust - ICT Managed Service

The Diamond Learning Partnership Trust (DLPT) is a Trust of 14 Academies encompassing c.3,461 pupils. These are located in two key areas, around St Neots and the Fens.

As a Trust we work with partners across the sector to seek out, develop, implement and share best practice. This is facilitated though a strong collaborative network of professionals. We believe passionately in sector led improvement and embrace world class systems, maximise sharing of resources, expertise, knowledge and opportunity within the Diamond family and beyond.

Ensuring all children make good or better progress in reading, writing and numeracy will be one of the core purposes. All staff will consistently and energetically use the most effective methods for teaching these basic skills. High quality training, from leading experts in literacy and numeracy teaching, will equip them to do so.

Underpinning this is:

In essence, this procurement is all about identifying a single supplier to provide a fully outsourced managed service. At the sole discretion of the Trust any future schools that the Trust may incorporate into the Trust will also be added to the ICT contract. Any additional schools will co-terminate to the end same end date of the initial contract.

Further details regarding timescales are noted below but in summary this is advertised as a 60 month contract with a maximum 5 year managed service with start and end dates as follows:

For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include, but not be limited to;

Bidders should note the following;