Official UK procurement notice
Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place
Authority: Local Government Association
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA contractor is being commissioned to work with PCH to provide targeted support to councils, neighbourhoods or places to develop impactful strategic workforce plans that will drive improvement locally and support the delivery of the governments three shifts. The Governments 10 year Health Plan aims to deliver three shifts – hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention - that will ensure that health and social care are fit for the future. A well-resourced and supported workforce will be central to government delivering these shifts. Planning for a workforce to deliver these shifts in a neighbourhood or place requires different skills to traditional workforce planning and not all councils yet have the skills or confidence to do this. Requests for support from PCH for strategic workforce planning have increased since 2023, including requests for support at regional as well as placed based level. DHSC require PCH to prioritise support to those councils being assessed as ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’ in the CQC assessment process. Many of these councils identify workforce planning as an area for improvement under the ‘providing support’ theme.
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - limited competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Jul 2025, 12:05 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Jul 2025, 12:05 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-039565- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055e64Find a Tender
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Contract details notice published14 Jul 2025, 12:05 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kath Smythe LtdSME | £61,750 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Kath Smythe LtdSME
- Signed
- 9 Jul 2025
- Value
- £61,750
- Period
- 14 Jul 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 · up to 30 Sept 2026 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- Up to 6 months at buyers discretion.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Kath Smythe LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender