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Be a Councillor campaign Independent Programme

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BuyerImprovement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA)
StatusClosed
Deadline9 Jan 2026
Value£15,000
Published10 Dec 2025

What is being bought

The Local Government Association (LGA) Leadership Team and Independent Group Office are seeking proposals for the planning, organisation, and delivery of the Independent Group's 'Be a Councillor' programme for the 2025/26 financial year. This initiative aims to increase the number and diversity of candidates standing for election as councillors from an Independent, Green, or other smaller and non-affiliated perspective. The total budget for this programme is £15,000 (exclusive of VAT), and all activities must be completed by March 31, 2026 and reporting requirements must be completed by May 31, 2026.

Categories

Staff training services 80511000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£15,000
Contract periodFrom 16 Jan 2026 to 15 Jan 2027
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Skills and experience — Your skills and experience (25%)
Delivery Methodology — Delivery Methodology (25%)
Timescales — Ability to deliver within the set timescale (25%)
Quality assurance — Quality assurance, including equality, diversity and inclusion actions and outcomes (25%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Staff training servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Staff training services (80511000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 804,6232 median · 31.4 average (2,089 of 4,623 with a bid count)3.1 average (2,266 of 4,623 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer5Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)113Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05eef0
Latest release ID081504-2025
Latest release timestampWed Dec 10 2025 13:33:59 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/081504-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-01-09T17:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-01-05T17:00:00Z
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
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Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£15,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source4
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
10 Dec 2025tenderUpdate081504-2025
4 Dec 2025tender079839-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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