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title: "Recruitment of Transition Lead Role for Medicines Discovery Catapult"
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# Recruitment of Transition Lead Role for Medicines Discovery Catapult

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/recruitment-of-transition-lead-role-for-medicines-discovery-catapult-ocds-h6vhtk-05fa49). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED: "Recruitment of Transition Lead Role for Medicines Discovery Catapult". 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:** [MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/medicines-discovery-catapult-limited-GB-COH-09928547)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - without competition
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £160,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/recruitment-of-transition-lead-role-for-medicines-discovery-catapult-ocds-h6vhtk-05fa49#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05fa49`

## 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/recruitment-of-transition-lead-role-for-medicines-discovery-catapult-ocds-h6vhtk-05fa49#tl-md)

## Description
Recruitment of a Transition Lead role at MDC. With duties to cover:
Transition Leadership to support phasing of new operating model.
Member of the MDC Discovery Leadership team, with accountability to the Chief Scientific Officer for business analytics, operational support and process improvement, working in collaboration with the Discovery Operations team; Heads of Lab Capabilities and Scientific Technical Leads.
Phase, implement, embed and stabilise the new operating model including all process improvements and ways of working to ensure delivery to time quality and cost.
Contribute to establishment of a high performing Delivery Operations function to enable and support the collection, analysis and interpretation of data to drive informed decision making and delivery excellence, ensuring appropriate governance and compliance.
Work with MDC leadership to translate pipeline demand into an operational plan for delivery and make recommendations as required to support effective delivery.
Establish and monitor the utilisation of people and lab resources to provide accurate and timely capacity data, to inform operational decision making.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

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

  - Supplier(s): **SCI PARTNERS LLP**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:OC376888`
  - Value: £160,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £160,000
  - Signed Date: 11/11/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F084868-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-12-19T12:22:45.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T12:33:45.956Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05fa49