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title: "Children’s Services - Delivering Better Value in SEND Transformation and Strategic Programme Support"
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# Children’s Services - Delivering Better Value in SEND Transformation and Strategic Programme Support

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/children-s-services-delivering-better-value-in-send-transformation-and-strategic-programme-ocds-h6vhtk-04b163). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Westmorland and Furness Council: "Children’s Services - Delivering Better Value in SEND Transformation and Strategic Programme Support". Published status: cancelled. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 28 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.the-chest.org.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** CANCELLED (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Westmorland and Furness Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/westmorland-and-furness-council-ons-e06000064)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 28 November 2024 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, Development consultancy services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD1
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04b163`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/children-s-services-delivering-better-value-in-send-transformation-and-strategic-programme-ocds-h6vhtk-04b163#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [the-chest.org.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-chest.org.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/children-s-services-delivering-better-value-in-send-transformation-and-strategic-programme-ocds-h6vhtk-04b163#participate

## Description
Westmorland & Furness Council Children’s Services directorate is committed to improving outcomes for children and young people in our local area. Our Ambition for Every Child is a key strand of our corporate change programme in the Council.
Service requirements include support for SEND improvements and high needs block deficit reduction. We have developed a highly complex programme of DBV work which require strategic programme oversight. There are several interdependencies which require a specialist skill set to ensure that all workstreams are both improving SEND provision at the same time as become more cost effective and reducing the deficit. These workstreams, which all involve multiple strands, include SEND sufficiency, education health and care plans, introducing the graduated approach, as well as enabler workstreams around data, ICT, and co-production.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Contract Period:** 10/01/2025 to 09/04/2026

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 007364-2025-1 (unsuccessful)

  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F007364-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-02-27T10:34:01.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T22:23:01.863Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04b163