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Published 11 Jun 2025, 10:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place

Official notice

Authority: Local Government Association

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: UK
Published estimate£62,250≈ £83k / year · £74,700 inc. VAT
Submissions closed 2 Jul 2025
Contract term 9 moends 1 Apr 2026 · up to 1 Oct 2026 with extensions · starts 14 Jul 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Governments 10 year Health Plan aims to deliver three shifts – hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention - that will ensure that health and social care are fit for the future. A well resourced and supported workforce will be central to government delivering these shifts. Planning for a workforce to deliver these shifts in a neighbourhood or place requires different skills to traditional workforce planning and not all councils yet have the skills or confidence to do this. Requests for support from PCH for strategic workforce planning have increased since 2023, including requests for support at regional as well as placed based level. DHSC require PCH to prioritise support to those councils being assessed as ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’ in the CQC assessment process. Many of these councils identify workforce planning as an area for improvement under the ‘providing support’ theme.

A contractor is being commissioned to work with PCH to provide targeted support to councils, neighbourhoods or places to develop impactful strategic workforce plans that will drive improvement locally and support the delivery of the governments three shifts.

The objective of the support is to help up to 15 places, which may be regions, individual councils, neighbourhoods or places defined by local health and care leaders in ICB’s, to develop a strategic workforce plan that will bring impactful change. This will include addressing short term workforce challenges as well as considering longer term transformation to move towards one workforce in a place.

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CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 9 moSMEVCSEPublished value£62,250
Contract period: 14 Jul 2025 – 1 Apr 2026 (9 mo) · up to 1 Oct 2026 with extensionsValue: £62,250 exc. VAT · £74,700 inc. VAT
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: The buyer is entitled at its absolute discretion to extend the contract period on the same terms for a further period or periods of up to six months. Please note extension is not bound by geographical location.

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
Quality: 80%Price: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Price
  • Quality
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

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
11 Jun 2025, 10:05 BST
Last source update
11 Jun 2025, 10:05 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-031424
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05466c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Delta eSourcing · Who buys & how to bid on Delta
Public notice page · account needed to bidElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free Select account; no DUNS asked at signup
Submission deadline
2 Jul 2025, 13:00 BST
Clarification deadline
24 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

11 Jun 2025 → 14 Jul 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice published
    11 Jun 2025, 10:05 BST
  2. Clarification questions by
    24 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST
  3. Submission deadline
    2 Jul 2025, 13:00 BST
  4. Contract starts
    14 Jul 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    11 Jun 2025, 10:05 BST
    UK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Improvement and Development Agency

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PPLL-6427-QNDD 18 Smith Square, Westminster, London, London, SW1P 3HZContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender