{"id":8134,"date":"2022-07-14T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2022-07-14T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:04:46","slug":"tendering-to-the-dfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/07\/14\/tendering-to-the-dfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tendering at the DfE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tendering for the DfE's \u00fcber high profile <a href=\"https:\/\/tender.bcgrowthhub.com\/tenders\/department-for-education-national-education-nature-park-and-climate-leaders-award\">climate leaders award and its nature park scheme<\/a> would not seem to have been the roaring success that the department hoped. \u00a0At the deadline, there was only one bid. \u00a0There were nearly two but I'm told that the second one fell apart at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n<p>Both bids were from consortia of organisations. \u00a0This was understandable given the spread of interests that had to be covered and, anyway, there's a tendency within organisations to value collaboration across the sector as opposed to competition within it. \u00a0Given the plethora of institutions and organisations across the country with interests in environment and education it might be surprising that there were only two bids, but this tender was only ever going to attract the larger organisations and they all decided to collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Then there's the money. \u00a0It might sound a lot [ \u00a34m to \u00a35.3m ] but once it's been sliced 'n' diced amongst, say, 5 outfits, over two years, it is not that large a sum. \u00a0I have heard that it was the money (ie, its inadequacy) that was likely to be the reason the second bid wasn't made, but I cannot verify that.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite a competitive tender, then; a problem for the DfE \u2013 to add to its woes over <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/07\/06\/no-one-at-home-at-the-dfe\/\">revolting ministers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tendering for the DfE's \u00fcber high profile climate leaders award and its nature park scheme would not seem to have been the roaring success that the department hoped. \u00a0At the deadline, there was only one bid. \u00a0There were nearly two...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}