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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Education

CR: Foster Care: Delivery Partner/Consultant- CFN

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79400000 79410000
Value£997k
Awarded7 Jun 2023
Published16 Aug 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£997ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

We required a delivery partner to work alongside us and the sector to provide challenge, independent oversight and support to LAs in relation to foster care recruitment support hubs, to ensure that this programme results in real, lasting change.

The delivery partner would provide oversight of the project and leverage regional working at a senior strategic level to establish regional working patterns.

The purpose of a delivery partner is to provide appropriate levels of both challenge and support to LAs to ensure new ways of working are embedded, as well as gathering and sharing insights between groups of LAs on approaches, successes and challenges to bring shared learning to the regions taking part in this programme nationally and inform DfE policy development.

We ran this competition using RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework Three (MCF3) Lot 7.

This means that only those who were on the Commercial Agreement Lot 7 could submit a bid in response to the published contract notice.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

We required a delivery partner to work

We required a delivery partner to work alongside us and the sector to provide challenge, independent oversight and support to LAs in relation to foster care recruitment support hubs, to ensure that this programme results in real, lasting change.

02

The delivery partner would provide oversight

The delivery partner would provide oversight of the project and leverage regional working at a senior strategic level to establish regional working patterns.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
We ran this competition using RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework Three (MCF3) Lot 7.

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Stage
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