Quick answer — Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA)Last refreshed 30 Sept 2024

At a glance

Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA) has awarded £640k across 9 suppliers, with 27 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 20% · 23 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 82% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 2 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration20%
Modifications · 90 d2
SME spend share82%
Pipeline · open now23
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA) is a contracting authority, based in UKI32. Tracks 180 published notices and 152 awards on PublicSupply.

180
Notices published
152
Awards
9
Suppliers engaged
2021
First award on file

Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£0
12 m spend
£163k
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£39k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

23

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified156 · £2.2m
services24 · £743k

Instrument type

contract180 · £2.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 156Find a Tender: 24

Awarded contracts · 27 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA) is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Ealing Council: In house supported living provision – flow and future investment85300000£11kest.active
Ealing Council: Reablement – Extending the offer to working-age adults85000000£12kest.active
Ealing Council: Reablement – Extending the offer to working-age adults85000000active
Support to Reading Council; establishing a robust, evidence led prevention framework for Adult Socia85000000£21kest.active
Support for local authority performance management – panels, action learning sets and case studies73210000£29kest.active
Support for local authority performance management – panels, action learning sets and case studies73210000£29kest.active
Pay structure reform in the UK Fire and Rescue Service75250000£25kest.active
Pay structure reform in the UK Fire and Rescue Service75250000£25kest.active
LGA’s Graduate Programmes Situational Judgement Test (SJT) Questions79635000£81kest.active
Brighton and Hove Council; Improving flow, process and waiting times85300000£23kest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
UL
2 contracts · SME · 28 Sept27 Jun
£127k
20% of total
2
3C
2 contracts · SME · 29 Jan26 Feb
£98k
15% of total
3
SA
1 contract · 09 Feb
£69k
11% of total
4
HI
1 contract · SME · 27 Aug
£66k
10% of total
▼ 100%
5
SH
1 contract · 28 Sept
£65k
10% of total
6
TB
1 contract · SME · 27 Jun
£60k
9% of total
7
SE
1 contract · SME · 27 Jun
£58k
9% of total
8
SF
1 contract · SME · 30 Sept
£58k
9% of total
▼ 100%
99
···
1 other suppliers
long tail · 1 SME
£39k
6% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Architecture, engineering
2 contracts
£1.0m
34%
Business, legal, advisory
61 contracts
£964k
33%
R&D services
54 contracts
£522k
18%
Health & social work
25 contracts
£327k
11%
IT services, software
7 contracts
£69k
2%
Government administration
5 contracts
£50k
2%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Architecture, engineering
Business, legal, advisory
R&D services
Health & social work
IT services, software
Government administration
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 2 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 2 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

82%
SME supplier share
target 33%
9
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
9
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI32
Companies House
03675577
Contact
Kulsuma Haque
Email
Kulsuma.Haque@local.gov.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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