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Published 16 May 2025, 16:15 BST

Official UK procurement notice

DHSC: OLS: Flagship Research Leadership Scheme Administration

Official notice

Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72)Administration, defence and social security services (75)Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£5,833,334pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 16 Jun 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 17 Aug 2028 · up to 17 Aug 2031 with extensions · starts 18 Aug 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Addiction Healthcare Goals (AHG) programme, led by the Office for Life Sciences, is aiming to make the UK a place where researchers and industry in addiction healthcare can thrive and partner effectively with NHS and Third Sector treatment providers to design, research and deploy innovative treatments and technologies which effectively tackle the challenges of drug and alcohol addictions, saving and improving the lives of those affected, and reducing the harms to the individual, their family and friends, and wider society. One key area of focus for the AHG programme to fulfil this aim is to grow UK-wide research leadership capacity to develop and deploy innovations. The Department is looking for a supplier that is able to administer a targeted research leadership career development scheme to award funding to individuals to commence or continue training and career development towards becoming national research leaders.

CPV: Administration services · Administrative services for business operations · Advertising and marketing services · Advertising campaign services · Auditing services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Fraud audit services · Project management consultancy services · Supporting services for the government

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 18 Aug 2025 – 17 Aug 2028 (3 yrs) · up to 17 Aug 2031 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
72224000 Project management consultancy services75100000 Administration services75112000 Administrative services for business operations75130000 Supporting services for the government79000000 Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security79212000 Auditing services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
16 May 2025, 16:15 BST
Last source update
16 May 2025, 19:25 BST
Authority reference
C358840
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-022407
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Administration servicesAdministrative services for business operationsAdvertising and marketing servicesAdvertising campaign servicesAuditing servicesBusiness services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityFraud audit servicesProject management consultancy servicesSupporting services for the government
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05163f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

16 May 2025 → 18 Aug 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    16 May 2025, 16:15 BST
  2. Market engagement
    6 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST

    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is seeking a supplier to administer a career development scheme to award funding to support research training and career development positions, including relevant post-doctoral roles, PhDs, and MScs conducted with a suitable UK institution. This is not a call for competition, but an opportunity to gather feedback to better understand market capabilities, refine the procurement strategy, and encourage supplier engagement. Interested parties can access the relevant documents via the Atamis system at health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗ using the contract reference. Suppliers may also submit the completed questionnaire through Atamis but must be registered on the system to do so. Alternatively, questionnaires can be submitted by email to ccsinbox@dhsc.gov.uk, quoting “AHG – Flagship Research Leadership Scheme Administration”

  3. Tender notice expected
    16 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts
    18 Aug 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 May 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 May 2025, 16:15 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 May 2025, 16:22 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 May 2025, 19:25 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (2)

Error on the maximum extension date

Length of contract should be 36 months with option to extend for further 36 months. Correctio of dates to reflect this.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

DHSC, London

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PMQG-9965-CHZR 39 Victoria Street, London, London, SW1H 0EUContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure