Provision of Health and Safety Consultancy

The procurement concerns the provision of a Trust‑wide Health and Safety Consultancy Service for Academy Transformation Trust and its academies. The services are required to be delivered across all academies within the Trust for the duration of the contract term. The required services include the delivery of annual health and safety audits at each academy, supported by written audit reports and prioritised action plans. The supplier is also required to undertake follow‑up visits to verify progress and address higher‑risk issues identified through audits or incidents. The scope includes the provision of ongoing professional health and safety advice and support, including incident response, investigation and reporting, as well as Trust‑level governance and assurance reporting, benchmarking and escalation arrangements. The supplier must also provide staff training and guidance aligned to statutory health and safety requirements and education‑sector best practice. A core requirement of the contract is the provision of educational visits governance, including access to a competent Educational Visits Adviser and the provision, operation and ongoing support of an educational visits management system, namely EVOLVE+ or an equivalent platform, for use across the Trust. The services must be supported by appropriate digital systems for secure data management, reporting and assurance, and must be delivered in compliance with all applicable safeguarding, information governance and data protection requirements. All services are required to be supplied on a fixed‑price basis and delivered in accordance with the specification and contractual terms set out in the tender documentation.