Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA): Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)Greater Londonlondon

Companies House03675577 ↗

Open now3next deadline 26 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.

Notices, last 12 months660 in the prior 12 months
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot70% single-bid · 5 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share23%of 13 awarded procedures · 38 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

13 awarded tenders, 38 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months88 within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published award value, 24m£370knet · on 7 of 12 published values · 5 repeated amounts set aside · top 5 = 90%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 66 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract100%(66 notices)
    66 of 66 notices are Contract (100%).
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open94%(62 notices)
    62 of 66 notices are Open (94%).
  • Route not published5%(3 notices)
    3 of 66 notices are Route not published (5%).
  • Direct award2%(1 notices)
    1 of 66 notices are Direct award (2%).
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

7robust · n=50% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 5 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

6 daysrobust · n=5
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 66 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

016 of 66 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

2.2% below estimatemoderate · n=3

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
DESIGN MIDLANDS LIMITED17.7%1112 Feb 2026
Highbroom Consultancy Limited trading as Alder Advice17.7%11—
Social Care Enterprises Limited17.7%11—
c&i associates Ltd17.7%11—
COLLABORATE OUT LOUD C.I.C.17.7%11—
Avie Consultancy Limited17.7%118 Jun 2026
JON GOODWIN LTD17.7%11—
CLAYTON WARNES CONSULTING LTD17.7%11—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 13 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 38 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£370kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 7 of 12 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 90%; a further 2 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£28k middle valuerobust · n=7Middle half £21k–£53k; 5 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Streamlining Section 106: developing standard clauses, obligations, guidance and best practice toolsTown Legal LLP23 Dec 202511 mo£175,000
LGA’s Graduate Programmes Situational Judgement Test (SJT) Questions Work Psychology Group10 Jun 20261 yrs · up to 2 yrs£68,900
≈ £69k/yr
Redesigning Liquidlogic Workflows and Power BI Reporting for Swindon Borough CouncilPermanent Futures Ltd 'Futures'—1 mo · up to 1 yrs£36,400 †
Support for local authority performance management – panels, action learning sets and case studiesAvie Consultancy Limited8 Jun 20269 mo · up to 2.8 yrs£28,350
Brighton and Hove Council; Improving flow, process and waiting timesConsortium24—6 mo · up to 1 yrs£22,750 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published end dates only · 10 of 11 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 68 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
East Midlands Children’s Improvement Adviser (CIA) with noticeAdministrative social servicesOpen5 Oct 2026£42,000
AI Delivery Partner for Local Government SupportDesign and execution of research and developmentOpen18 Sept 2026£100,000
Public Health Peer reviews - Peer Review ManagersAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Procurement of development viability training and bespoke support for Local Planning AuthoritiesDevelopment consultancy servicesOpen16 Sept 2026£170,000
Production of guidance on producing an effective council data strategyData servicesOpen3 Sept 2026£25,000
Animated videos for Negotiation Support Package for Adult Social Care Fair Pay AgreementE-learning servicesCancelled1 Sept 2026£25,000
LGA children's improvement - Health Engagement Advisors (HEA) with noticeCommunity health servicesOpen27 Aug 2026£42,000
West Northampton - Baselining and reshaping the adult social care ‘Front Door’Social work and related servicesAwarded / complete14 Aug 2026£16,250
Adult Social Care Financial Analysis Bespoke ReviewsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete13 Aug 2026£56,000
Disabled Councillors Leadership ProgrammeSpecialist training servicesAwarded / complete10 Aug 2026£20,000
Numerical test for Impact Finance graduate schemeAssessment centre services for recruitmentOpen3 Aug 2026£10,000
LGA Graduate Programmes Assessment Centre Exercises and Design 2026Assessment centre services for recruitmentOpen3 Aug 2026£125,000
E-learning for the Pathways to Planning Surveying strandDesign and execution of research and developmentOpen24 Jul 2026£25,000
LGA Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) Leadership Essentials Course for CouncillorsDesign and execution of research and developmentOpen21 Jul 2026£9,000
SEND Improvement Advisers (SIA)Development consultancy servicesOpen20 Jul 2026£42,000
Children’s services governance adviser (with notice)Development consultancy servicesOpen17 Jul 2026£39,000
Public Health Peer reviews - Peer Review ManagersHealth servicesOpen16 Jul 2026£6,500
LGA Sustainability Masterclasses and Strategic BriefingsEducation and training servicesOpen8 Jul 2026£20,833
Support for local authority performance management – panels, action learning sets and case studiesResearch consultancy servicesAwarded / complete8 Jul 2026£29,000
Brighton and Hove Council; Improving flow, process and waiting timesHealth servicesAwarded / complete2 Jul 2026£22,750

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About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
  • Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
  • Contract end dates. 10 of 11 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.