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title: "Consultancy and advisory services_Leadership and professional development programme_Bands 7 & 8a"
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# Consultancy and advisory services_Leadership and professional development programme_Bands 7 & 8a

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/consultancy-and-advisory-services-leadership-and-professional-development-programme-bands--ocds-h6vhtk-05dff6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust: "Consultancy and advisory services_Leadership and professional development programme_Bands 7 & 8a". Published status: complete. Contract Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/east-kent-hospitals-university-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-rvv)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Direct award
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ44
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £173,700 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/consultancy-and-advisory-services-leadership-and-professional-development-programme-bands--ocds-h6vhtk-05dff6#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05dff6`

## 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/consultancy-and-advisory-services-leadership-and-professional-development-programme-bands--ocds-h6vhtk-05dff6#tl-md)

## Description
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Procurement Act 2023, 2gether Support Solutions, on behalf of the Contracting Authority is looking to direct award a contract for the provision of a leadership development programme for delivery to the Contracting Authority's employed Nurses, Midwives and AHPs (Agenda for Change bands 7 and 8a), across six cohorts (three cohorts per banding) between December 2025 to July 2026. 
All workshops are to be delivered with two facilitators per session, with the programme structured into multiple modules, include one module which incorporates three professional actors for experiential learning.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79410000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (pending)

  - Supplier(s): **Robert Dickson Consulting Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:07293253`
  - Value: £173,700 (exc. VAT)

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F073341-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-12T17:25:11.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T05:21:30.505Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05dff6