Awarded· 8 Jul 2025
Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place
Improvement and Development Agency · Westminster, London
Improvement and Development Agency has awarded Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place. It is a contract for other health and social care in Westminster.
Source: Find a Tender, published 14 Jul 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Kath Smythe
2025
Contract starts
2025
Award notice published
UK7 - Contract Details Notice · 11:05
View notice2026
Contract ends
0½ years after it starts
About this tender
In brief
Improvement and Development Agency has awarded Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place. It is a contract for other health and social care in Westminster. The contract went to Kath Smythe. It was awarded on 8 July 2025. The contract value is £61,750. The contract runs from 13 July 2025 to 31 March 2026. It lasts 0½ years.
It is run as a below threshold - limited competition. Find a Tender published it on 14 July 2025. The notice number is 039565-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-055e64.
Summary of the contracting process
The contracting process was undertaken by the Improvement and Development Agency, based in London, United Kingdom, for a project titled "Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place". This procurement falls under the health and social work services industry category. The process culminated in an award and contract signing with Kath Smythe Ltd, a supplier in Manchester, for services to be delivered across the UK.
The procurement was conducted through a limited competition method due to its below-threshold status, with the legal basis aligned to UK legislation 2023/54. This contract, which began on 14 July 2025, extends to 31 March 2026, with a potential extension until 30 September 2026, if deemed necessary by the buyer.
The notice in full
A 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. To view this notice, please click here: delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html
Lots: no lot details came through with this notice. The official notice and the tender pack have the full breakdown.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- 13 Jul 2025 to 31 Mar 2026 (0½ years)
- Awarded to
- Kath Smythe
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- UK7 - Contract Details Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Below threshold - limited competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Buyer's portal
- Delta eSourcing
Values
- Contracts value
- £61,750
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Complete
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 039565-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-055e64
- CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Westminster
- Town
- South West London
- Postcode
- SW1P 3HZ
- Electoral ward
- St James's
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
- Region
- London
- Sub-region
- Westminster and City of London
- Area
- Inner London - West
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Improvement and Development Agency
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Claire Gladwell
- Phone
- 07768392010
- Address
- London, SW1P 3HZ · London · England
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Kath Smythe
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
- Contract details notice on Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039565-2025
- Delta eSourcing portal, to register and biddelta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html
- Legislation.gov.uklegislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- OCDS record ocds-h6vhtk-055e64 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h…
Questions about Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place
Who won the Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place contract?
Improvement and Development Agency awarded the contract to Kath Smythe on 8 July 2025. It is due to end on 31 March 2026, which is when a re-tender would normally follow.
How much is the Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place contract worth?
The contract value is £61,750. The contract runs from 13 July 2025 to 31 March 2026 (0½ years).
Who is the buyer for Workforce planning in a neighbourhood or place?
Improvement and Development Agency, based in Westminster, London. The named contact is Claire Gladwell, on 07768392010.
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