Official UK procurement notice
Evaluation and Learning Partner (Sport England Place Partnership Funding Expansion - Leicester)
Authority: Leicestershire County Council (Local council)·On behalf of: Leicester City Council
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEvaluation and Learning Partner
Sports England Place Partnership Funding Expansion - Leicester.
Active Together are seeking to commission an evaluation and learning partner to work as part of the Sport England funded Place Expansion work in Leicester for an 18 month contract.
Leicester has been identified as an area for Sport England Place Based investment and has been awarded funding to support Place Based working from September 2026 to Spring 2028.
Evaluation and learning are a key part of the work and are embedded throughout the programme. The appointed partner:
- will support the upskilling of the team, partner organisations and the public in becoming comfortable with and embedding learning and evaluation
- carrying out formal qualitative evaluation such as ripple effect mapping and social network analysis in partnership with the team
- leading the submission of formal evaluation and learning requirements to Sport England and the National Evaluation and Learning Partner (NELP)
For more information on Active Together please see link below
CPV: Evaluation consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£90,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lot awarding rule: Price 40% Weighting Quality 60% Weighting including social value
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 9 Sept 2026, 13:52 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Sept 2026, 11:53 BST
- Authority reference
DN829693- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085402- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f5aeFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 9 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 29 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
9 Sept 2026 → 9 Nov 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published49 days ago9 Sept 2026, 13:52 BST
- Latest notice published42 days ago16 Sept 2026, 11:53 BST
- Clarification questions by29 days ago29 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline19 days ago9 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 11 days9 Nov 2026
Notice history
6 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Sept 2026- Tender notice published9 Sept 2026, 13:52 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Sept 2026, 14:12 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Sept 2026, 16:15 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published14 Sept 2026, 14:31 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published16 Sept 2026, 11:53 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 9 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST16 Sept 2026, 11:53 BST+7 days · was 2 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Published amendments (4)
no change
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Amendment of description
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2026-09: 2 releases · 9 Sept 2026, 9 Sept 2026
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Leicester City CouncilProcuring entityEvaluation Panel
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
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