Purpose

Permission is being sought to utilise the 1
year extension period built into the Council’s contract to
deliver the local authority statutory duty around Key Stage 2 (KS2)
statutory moderation.
External moderation is statutory. It gives confidence that
schools’ Teacher Assessment (TA) judgements are accurate and
consistent with national standards, as specified in the TA
frameworks and exemplification materials.
LAs are required to externally moderate at least 25% of maintained
schools. They are also expected to externally moderate at least 25%
of academies and participating independent schools that opt into
the LA’s external moderation provision. LAs must ensure all
schools they are responsible for are moderated at least once every
4 years (excluding 2020 and 2021), or more frequently if
required.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) was issued on the Due North Portal
“The Chest” with a return date of the 30 August 2022.
ITT submissions were received from 1 organisation. A comprehensive
evaluation process was undertaken by an evaluation panel and a
scoring moderation meeting was held on the 1 September 2022.
The
outcome of this process was that the organisation met the criteria
and were awarded the contract for 1 year with the option to extend
for a further 1 year.

Content

RESOLVED - That:
To lead the statutory moderation, the Lead Moderator must have
passed the Standardisation Exercise 1 test for KS2, have the
relevant skills, knowledge and experience as outlined in the
contract, which went through the procurement processes and was
awarded to the organisation.
Therefore, permission is being sought to approve the decision to
extend the contract for 1 year.