Notice Information
Notice Title
People Advisory Support
Notice Description
Subscription to a supplier offering services with research and advisory capacity that offer insights, advice and tools to achieve mission-critical priorities and help build successful organisations. Key requirements are : * Develop the skills and capabilities in HR Leadership to meet the future needs of the business. * Increase the capability of People SMT, introduce best practices and an ethos of continuous improvement. * SLC Wide Target Operating Model Review. We are seeking an ongoing advisory relationship and access to research covering the human resources sector to optimise delivery of our 3-year SLC people strategy and people aspects of the SLC wide 3 year transformation programme. Specifically, we are looking for:- * HR best practice, advisory support and HR tools, templates, maturity assessments and benchmarking data to accelerate success and mitigate against risk of mistakes. * Expert advice on leading the people and culture transformation is required to embed the new Target Operating Model and enable SLC's digital and strategic ambitions. * Build capabilities within the people Directorate to ensure success of transformation and delivery of organisational objectives * Provide unbiased, peer-informed insights and practical tools that simplify complexity, accelerate decision-making, and reduce risk.
Planning Information
Engaged with Gartner UK Limited and Forrester Research on the basis of a G-Cloud 14 search where it was reduced down to their service offerings. Engaged with them on queries around their service offerings and pricing documents to see if they could fulfil our requirements from a HR/People perspective.
Procurement Information
The process was undertaken via the CCS G-Cloud 14 Framework (Rm1557.14) Which was established through a compliant competitive procedure. The required services fall within the scope which were undertaken through objective filtering and evaluation of eligible suppliers on the digital marketplace. Two suppliers were then approached where it was realised that only one met the full specification of our requirements in terms of HR/People support.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f341
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/081727-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK5 - Transparency Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Direct
- Procurement Method Details
- Direct award
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
-
- CPV Codes
73110000 - Research services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £258,800 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Dec 20252 weeks ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 11 Dec 2025Expired
- Award Date
- 10 Dec 20252 weeks ago
- Contract Period
- 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- STUDENT LOANS COMPANY
- Contact Name
- Stuart Turner
- Contact Email
- stuart_turnergla@slc.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- DARLINGTON
- Postcode
- DL1 1RW
- Post Town
- Darlington
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLC North East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLC3 Tees Valley
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLC33 Darlington
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Darlington
- Electoral Ward
- Red Hall & Lingfield
- Westminster Constituency
- Darlington
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/081727-2025
10th December 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/081726-2025
10th December 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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