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Contract award: Department for Education - National Centre for Arts and Music Education (GBP 24,225,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 13th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Department for Education. Procurement: National Centre for Arts and Music Education. Description: The Department for Education is contracting with a delivery partner to establish and operate a National Centre for Arts Education (previously called the National Centre for Arts and Music Education) (the "Centre"). The intention is to establish the Centre by September 2026. The Centre will play a pivotal role in delivering the government’s ambition to revitalise arts in schools in England, so ever Category: services. Value: GBP 24,225,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Empowering Educational International Limited (Etio).

Publication
UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published
13th October 2026
Original report
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What ProcIntel recorded

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Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
United Kingdom
Organisations
None identified
Collected
13th October 2026 · 15:52

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity
Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: Department for Business and Trade - Supply of ServiceNow Licenses (GBP 4,000,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.