Pupil Equity Funding (PEF) Flexible Framework

Dumfries and Galloway Council · Scotland

What the buyer wants

Framework agreement to support schools in Scotland with Pupil Equity Funding (PEF) services aimed at closing the poverty-related attainment gap through various educational and support services.

The Scottish Government has committed to providing additional funding in the form of Pupil Equity Funding (PEF), to schools as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge programme. This funding is allocated directly to schools and is aimed at closing the poverty related attainment gap.

The aim of this framework agreement is to allow schools to contract compliantly with providers who will be able to support the pupil equity fund.

Description as published on Find a Tender: read the official notice.

How Tenderoo reads it

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The notice reads as suitable for a small or medium-sized firm: the scope, value and requirements are within reach of a business of that size.

Services required

• Education and training services
• Guidance and counselling services
• Counselling services
• Dance and performance entertainment services
• Dance-instruction services
• Ballroom dance-instruction services
• Discotheque dance-instruction services
• Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories
• Multimedia software package
• Music or sound editing software package
• Tutorial services
• Miscellaneous health services
• Guidance services
• Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
• Community action programme
• Other community, social and personal services
• Training software package
• Recreational, cultural and sporting services
• Personal development training services
• Physical well-being services

Lots

• Counselling, Support & Advice Services — Providing services that provide professional assistance, guidance and support in resolving personal or psychological problems. Services may include but are not limited to group and/or one to one work with pupils or families, counselling, befriending, mediation and services to promote positive mental wellbeing.
• Creative Engagement — Providing services that focuses on engaging pupils and learning through creative activities. Services may include but are not limited to, music, art, drama and dance.
• External Tutors - Additional Support — Providing services where external personnel offer additional support to pupils on a group or one to one basis. Services may include but are not limited to; resilience coaching, speech and language therapy, literacy and maths champions and Nurture support.
• Pupil workshops — Providing services that engages pupils on a particular subject, activity or project through discussion, performance or participation in class(s)dedicated to the project or activity. Services may include but are not limited to mindfulness, yoga, confidence building, nutrition, diversity, health and wellbeing (physical and mental).
• Parental Support & Family Learning — Providing services that engage with parents and families to provide support to increase involvement in the pupil’s learning. Services may include, but are not limited to, parental engagement workshops, leadership training, one to one sessions.
• Community Engagement — Providing services that focuses on engaging pupils, parents/carers and the wider community in learning and will build and develop local capacity. Services provided should draw on existing interventions and community programmes to build a stronger local community based on local needs and aspirations.
• Mentoring — Providing a service that focuses on the support and encouragement of pupils to manage their own learning in order that they may develop their learning skills, improve their academic performance and maximise their potential. Services may include, but are not limited to, additional support with academic studies, coaching, youth work and support and mentoring programs
• Educational Assessments — Providing support and assessment materials primarily in the areas of Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing. Services may include, but are not limited to, standardised and diagnostic assessment and screening tools.
• Educational leadership — Providing support and assessment materials primarily in the areas of Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing. Services may include, but are not limited to, standardised and diagnostic assessment and screening tools.
• Leadership for Pupils — Provide services that will develop leadership and team working skills in pupils of all ages and abilities across the local authority.
• Developing the Young Workforce — Providing services that will assist schools in developing skills for learning, life and work in children and young people in the broad general education, particularly for those young people with barriers to learning and at risk of disengaging from education early. Services may include but are not limited to work-related learning experiences and involvement with families or employers.
• Out of School Clubs — Providing services that provides a regulated club that offers a safe environment for children outside of school hours. Clubs often include the provision of food and some activities or social element. These may include but are not limited to breakfast, after school and holiday clubs.

Key facts

• Buyer: Dumfries and Galloway Council
• Deadline: 13 September 2027
• Location: Scotland
• Published on: Find a Tender — read the official notice
• First seen by Tenderoo: 13 October 2026
• CPV: 80000000, 85312300, 85312320, 92340000, 92342000, 92342100, 92342200, 37000000, 48520000, 48521000, 80590000, 85140000, 85312310, 85312400, 85322000, 98000000, 48931000, 92000000, 80570000, 98330000, 80100000, 80200000, 80400000, 80210000, 75121000, 80340000, 80310000

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