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Adult Social Care: Workforce Support Programme Lot 3

Department of Health and Social Care (T&T)contractFind a Tender ↗Ref ocds-h6vhtk-055fdfProcurement Act 2023SME suitableVCSE suitablepending

Estimated value

—

Awarded value

£905k

Awarded 09 Nov 2025

Suppliers

1

Lots

1

1 awarded

Published

26 Mar 2026

Description

Three tendered lots for the provision of a comprehensive Adult Social Care Workforce Support Programme. -Lot 3 will award a contract to a supplier to conduct research on the themes set out in the specification to support the Buyer to achieve its strategic outcome of establishing a robust and verifiable evidence base on the adult social care (ASC) workforce and skills, which will support the Authotiry's current and future decision.

Scope

Reference
C361780
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
31 Mar 2026 to 31 Mar 2028
CPV classifications
85321000
75122000
80561000
85000000
80000000
75120000
75130000
72300000
Contract locations
UK, United Kingdom
Particular suitability
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
PricePrice per Quality point methodology used.price—
QualityAward Questions = 90% overall quality scorequality—
Social ValueSocial Value question = 10% of overall quality score.quality—

Submission & procedure

Procedure
Competitive flexible procedure

Award details

Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.

Awarded value

£905k

Award date

09 Nov 2025

Contract start

09 Apr 2026

Contract end

31 Mar 2029

Awarded to
IP
Ipsos
CH 01640855