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Accessibility Software & Hardware Support & Training - 2026

Awarded United Kingdom Architecture & engineering services

Buyer Office for standards in education, childrens services and skills

€146,418 awarded value

Key facts

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Awarded to

VoicePower Ltd

Awarded value
€146,418
Record with this buyer
1 first contract from this buyer in the register

Summary

Machine-generated summary

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) awarded a contract for accessibility software, support and training for staff assessed as having accessibility issues. The contract covers Dragon speech recognition software, training on reasonable adjustment software including Dragon, TextHelp Read & Write and Mindmanager, access to an online portal to manage usage among Ofsted staff, a dedicated help phone line with additional training, and occasional compatible hardware such as digital recorders. VoicePower Ltd won the contract for EUR 146,417.99. The awarded price is the same as the estimate, within 1%. The award date was 2026-09-01 and the deadline for bids was 2026-08-25.

Timing

  1. Deadline
  2. Awarded decided in 6 days
  3. Published

Description

This contract will provide accessibility software, support and training for staff that have been assessed as having accessibility issues. The successful supplier will provide the following services: • Speech recognition software (Dragon Software) to accommodate users with a range of disabilities. • Training to staff on Specific reasonable adjustment software (Dragon TextHelp Read & write, Mindmanager) • Access to an online portal which is used to manage the usage amongst Ofsted staff. • Provide support to staff via a dedicated help phone line (as well as additional training) for any workplace adjustment software that is provided. • An occasional requirement for compatible hardware, for example, in the form of digital recorders.

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Market

Architecture & engineering services in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€116,805
More figures

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 955 awards for Architecture & engineering services in United Kingdom.

This award
€146,418
Median award
€116,805
Middle half of past awards
€58,474 to €283,621

The award sits inside the usual range.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

open now in Architecture & engineering services
6,810
median open notice
€269,614

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Architecture & engineering services

different companies won awards here
612
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
379

Based on 1,121 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

Office for standards in education, childrens services and skills

notices in the register
18
awards
17
awarded in total
€17.1M

Who wins its contracts

Moderately concentrated
different companies won its awards
13
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
41%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 17 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Office for standards in education, childrens services and skills

United Kingdom

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