Official UK procurement notice
Senior Leadership Development Services
Authority: General Dental Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe General Dental Council (GDC) is seeking to appoint a strategic leadership development partner to work collaboratively with the organisation over a three-year period. The appointed provider will support the GDC in strengthening leadership capability, shaping organisational culture, enhancing ways of working, and fostering the continued development of its senior leadership community.
The scope of services is expected to include leadership development, executive coaching and facilitation, organisational development support, cultural transformation initiatives, and the design and delivery of interventions tailored to the evolving needs of the GDC. The successful provider will demonstrate a collaborative approach, a strong track record of delivering impact, and the ability to build trusted relationships at senior leadership level.
- Two-stage procedure: 3 to 5 candidates will be invited to tender.
How the procedure runs: The procurement will be conducted using a Competitive Flexible Procedure comprising two stages. Stage 1 - Prequalification Interested suppliers will be invited to complete a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). The PSQ will assess suppliers' suitability, capability, financial capacity, relevant experience, and ability to meet more…
the requirements. Only suppliers that successfully satisfy the Conditions of Participation will be invited to progress to the Invitation to Tender stage. Stage 2 - Invitation to Tender (ITT) Stage Suppliers that successfully pass the Prequalification Stage will be invited to submit a detailed tender in response to the Invitation to Tender (ITT). Tender submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the published award criteria, including quality and price considerations. Following evaluation, the Authority intends to award the contract to the supplier with the most advantageous tender.
CPV: Personal development training services · Staff training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£240,000
- Value
- £240,000 exc. VAT · £288,000 inc. VAT
- Second stage
- 3–5 candidates invited to tender
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (6)
- Strategic approach, diagnostic and leadership development methodology — 20%
- Executive leadership team development and executive coaching — 15%
- Leadership Community Network development, culture and inclusion — 15%
- Measuring impact, governance and continuous improvement — 10%
- Presentation — 10%
- Pricing — 30%
- Condition of participationThe criteria is set out in the tender documents. shortlisting
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How General Dental Council buys Specialist training services (CPV 8051) — and who usually turns up
General Dental Council’s own published record, next to the West Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Specialist training services (CPV 8051) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
General Dental Council
contract notices in 36 months: 3 in division 80 (2 without competition) · 18 in all categories (2 without competition · 1 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 7 lots. 5 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 2 from older notices (bids received, middle 6).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 7 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 3 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 21 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 3 notices.
West Midlands · Specialist training services (CPV 8051)
contract notices delivered in West Midlands in 36 months: 30 in CPV 8051 (22 competed, 8 route not published) · 263 in division 80 (193 competed, 55 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8051), last 36 months: 20 lots. 11 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 9 from older notices (bids received, middle 8).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8051), last 36 months: 20 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8051), last 36 months: 6 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8051), last 36 months: 5 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8051), last 36 months: 19 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8051), last 36 months: 49 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on 3 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for expressions of interest
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 12:17 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 12:17 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
GDC-2026-032- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0780a4Find a Tender
- How it runs
The procurement will be conducted using a Competitive Flexible Procedure comprising two stages. Stage 1 - Prequalification Interested suppliers will be invited to complete a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). The PSQ will assess suppliers' suitability, capability, financial capacity, relevant experience, and ability to meet the requirements. Only suppliers that successfully satisfy the Conditions of more…
Participation will be invited to progress to the Invitation to Tender stage. Stage 2 - Invitation to Tender (ITT) Stage Suppliers that successfully pass the Prequalification Stage will be invited to submit a detailed tender in response to the Invitation to Tender (ITT). Tender submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the published award criteria, including quality and price considerations. Following evaluation, the Authority intends to award the contract to the supplier with the most advantageous tender.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 30 Oct 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 15 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
- Shortlist
- 3–5 candidates invited to tender
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today5 Oct 2026, 12:17 BST
- Clarification questions byin 10 days15 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST
- Expressions of interest byin 25 days30 Oct 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 25 days30 Oct 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 118 days1 Feb 2027, 00:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 119 days1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published5 Oct 2026, 12:17 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender