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title: "DHSC: OLS: Flagship Research Leadership Scheme Administration"
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# DHSC: OLS: Flagship Research Leadership Scheme Administration

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/dhsc-ols-flagship-research-leadership-scheme-administration-ocds-h6vhtk-05163f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department of Health & Social Care: "DHSC: OLS: Flagship Research Leadership Scheme Administration". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £5,833,334. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Department of Health & Social Care](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-of-health-social-care-gov-d12)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £5,833,334 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Administration services, Administrative services for business operations, Advertising and marketing services, Advertising campaign services, Auditing services (+4 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/dhsc-ols-flagship-research-leadership-scheme-administration-ocds-h6vhtk-05163f#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05163f`

## 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-ols-flagship-research-leadership-scheme-administration-ocds-h6vhtk-05163f#tl-md)

## Description
The Addiction Healthcare Goals (AHG) programme, led by the Office for Life Sciences, is aiming to make the UK a place where researchers and industry in addiction healthcare can thrive and partner effectively with NHS and Third Sector treatment providers to design, research and deploy innovative treatments and technologies which effectively tackle the challenges of drug and alcohol addictions, saving and improving the lives of those affected, and reducing the harms to the individual, their family and friends, and wider society. One key area of focus for the AHG programme to fulfil this aim is to grow UK-wide research leadership capacity to develop and deploy innovations. The Department is looking for a supplier that is able to administer a targeted research leadership career development scheme to award funding to individuals to commence or continue training and career development towards becoming national research leaders.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 72224000, 75100000, 75112000, 75130000, 79000000, 79212000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 17/08/2025 to 17/08/2028
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F022407-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-05-16T18:25:04.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T08:45:47.596Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05163f