Evidence-Based Early Years Maths Programme
Buyer: Department for Education
- Published
- 4 November 2025
- Submission deadline
- 5 December 2025
- Estimated value
- £4,500,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Lots
- 1
- Documents
- 1
- Notice number
- 070870-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-0550f5
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 80000000Education and training services
Description
The Department for Education is commissioning an evidence-based early maths programme aimed at improving numeracy outcomes for children in early years settings across England. Early maths skills are strongly linked to later academic achievement and workforce success, yet many children begin school without the expected level of development in maths. Despite its importance within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), maths remains one of the lowest-performing areas, partly due to limited training and confidence among educators. This contract will support the delivery of an evidence-based early maths programme to at least 5,000 settings, with a minimum completion rate of 80%, and requires programmes to be backed by robust evaluation, either a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) or Quasi-Experimental Design (QED) plus an implementation and process evaluation (IPE). A PIN was published on 20th June 2025. A Market Engagement Event was subsequently held on 10 July 2025 and the slides and Question & Answer document from this event have been uploaded to Jaggaer. For further information, please access the ITT documents via the Jaggaer e-Procurement platform (itt_3727). The Department wil…
Official publications
- FTS · 070870-2025 · 4 November 2025
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- The estimated value published by the buyer is £4,500,000.
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- The contracting authority is Department for Education (United Kingdom).
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