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# DHSC:GAPH: Competency Framework for 0-5 Health Visiting Teams

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/dhsc-gaph-competency-framework-for-0-5-health-visiting-teams-ocds-h6vhtk-06b940). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department of Health & Social Care: "DHSC:GAPH: Competency Framework for 0-5 Health Visiting Teams". Published status: complete. Published 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:** [Department of Health & Social Care](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-of-health-social-care-gov-d12)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - limited competition
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £41,596 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/dhsc-gaph-competency-framework-for-0-5-health-visiting-teams-ocds-h6vhtk-06b940#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06b940`

## 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/dhsc-gaph-competency-framework-for-0-5-health-visiting-teams-ocds-h6vhtk-06b940#tl-md)

## Description
The Healthy Child Programme sets out the role of Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (health visitors and school nurses), skill‑mix teams, clinical oversight, supervision, and expectations of competence across 0–19 delivery. It explicitly recognises the requirement for competent, suitably qualified staff delivering proportionate, evidence‑based interventions. While the guidance articulates what good looks like, and acknowledges the need for registered nurses to be accountable according to Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance, there is currently no nationally agreed competency framework that translates these expectations into a consistent, practical description of the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required of practitioners delivering the HCP across different roles and levels of service. This creates variation in how competence in skill mix teams is interpreted, developed, assured and commissioned locally. 
Commissioning a national competency framework would address this gap and provide a shared foundation for workforce capability, quality assurance and service improvement.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85100000

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

  - Supplier(s): **Institute of Health Visiting**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-183577`
  - Value: £41,596 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** DHSC:GAPH: Competency Framework for 0-5 Health Visiting Teams (active)
  - Signed Value: £41,596
  - Signed Date: 18/06/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F058138-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-06-19T13:25:46.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-20T21:23:21.568Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-06b940