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HH387-26-TW10 Community Led Support (ASC)

NHS Highland

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25 Aug 2026 at 11:59

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Summary of the contracting process

NHS Highland commissioned specialist advisory, facilitation and development support for Community Led Support, the system-change foundation and organising framework for the Highland Care Model. The work covers adult social care across Highland, embedding a preventative, strengths-based, community-focused and self-directed approach. It includes designing and facilitating Community Spaces and locality collaboration networks with statutory services, communities, third-sector organisations and people with lived experience, improving access to advice, information and early support. The wider support includes work on community assets and prevention, strengths-based statutory practice and outcomes-focused commissioning, alongside workshops, facilitated conversations, learning events, process and pathway redesign, leadership support, mentoring, peer learning, programme planning, coordination, reporting and delivery support. The service is delivered across Highland, with NHS Highland based in Inverness.

This procurement has been awarded and the contract is active. NHS Highland used a limited negotiated procedure without publishing a contract notice, relying on a particular operator’s protected intellectual property, implementation methodology and accumulated learning associated with the National Development Team for Inclusion’s Community Led Support model. One lot was awarded to the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi). The contract value is £250,000. The contract was signed on 29 July 2026. The commissioned programme is intended to make Community Led Support and the Highland Care Model business as usual by March 2029. The requirement was classified as business development consultancy services. Evaluation was conducted through the negotiated procedure, with the procurement rationale identifying NDTi’s exclusive model-related rights and specialist system-transformation expertise as central to the award.

This award demonstrates demand from NHS Highland for specialist adult social-care transformation support that combines strategic advice with practical facilitation and implementation. Credible future suppliers would need experience of preventative, strengths-based, community-focused and self-directed approaches, particularly where these are applied across statutory services, communities and third-sector partners. Relevant capability includes designing and running community spaces and locality networks, engaging people with lived experience, improving advice and early support pathways, and connecting community assets with prevention. Suppliers should also be able to support outcomes-focused commissioning, facilitate workshops and learning events, redesign processes and pathways, provide leadership support, mentoring and peer learning, and manage programme coordination, reporting and delivery. Familiarity with the Highland Care Model or an equivalent system-change framework, together with strong implementation evidence, would be important.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

HH387-26-TW10 Community Led Support (ASC)

Notice Description

Specialist advisory, facilitation and developmental support from the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi), working in partnership with Community Contacts, SDS Scotland and other relevant partners, to support the development, testing and implementation of Community Led Support as the system change foundation and organising framework for the Highland Care Model.

Lot Information

Lot 1

The commissioned scope will comprise: Support to embed a preventative, strengths-based, community-focused and self-directed approach and system change to adult social care across Highland, with the aim of making Community Led Support and the Highland Care Model "business as usual" by March 2029. Design, facilitation and support for Community Spaces and locality collaboration networks, including engagement with statutory services, communities, third-sector partners and people with lived experience to improve access to advice, information and early support. System transformation support across community assets and prevention, strengths-based statutory practice, and outcomes-focused commissioning, including workshops, facilitated conversations, learning events, process/pathway redesign, leadership support, mentoring and peer learning. Programme planning, coordination, reporting and delivery support over the contract period to 31 March 2029.

Procurement Information

The proposed commission relates to specialist system transformation support which is intrinsically linked the NDTi developed Community Led Support model, associated intellectual property, implementation methodology and accumulated learning from previous programmes.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-06eb6c
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080788-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

CPV Codes

79411100 - Business development consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£250,000 £100K-£500K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
25 Aug 2026Yesterday
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
29 Jul 20264 weeks ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS Highland
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
INVERNESS
Postcode
IV2 3BW
Postcode Area
Inverness
Country
Scotland
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM2 Highlands and Islands
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM20 Highlands and Islands
Delivery Location
TLK12 Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire
Local Authority
Highland
Electoral Ward
Inverness South
Westminster Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi)

Further Information

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