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HH387-26-TW10 Community Led Support (ASC)

NHS Highland

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24 Sep 2026 at 01:00

OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
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25 Aug 2026 at 01:00

OJEU - F15 - Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Summary of the contracting process

NHS Highland commissioned specialist advisory, facilitation and development services to establish Community Led Support as the foundation for its Highland Care Model. The work supports adult social care system change across Highland, embedding a preventative, strengths-based, community-focused and self-directed approach. It includes designing and facilitating Community Spaces and local collaboration networks, engaging statutory services, communities, third-sector organisations and people with lived experience to improve access to advice, information and early support. The supplier also supports transformation across community assets and prevention, statutory practice and outcomes-focused commissioning, through workshops, learning events, pathway redesign, leadership support, mentoring and peer learning, alongside programme coordination and reporting. Delivery is across Highland; NHS Highland is the commissioning organisation.

The procurement is complete and the contract is active. NHS Highland used a limited award procedure without a prior competition, citing the selected provider’s Community Led Support model, intellectual property, implementation method and accumulated programme learning. National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was selected for the single lot, with subcontracting involved. The contract was signed on 14 September 2026 and is valued at £230,000. The commissioned programme is intended to make Community Led Support and the Highland Care Model established practice by March 2029, with delivery specified to run through 31 March 2029. The stated award criterion for the lot was price. One bid was recorded, including one bid from an SME; the award data identifies NDTi as the supplier.

This award demonstrates demand from NHS Highland for specialist support in adult social care transformation, particularly for implementing Community Led Support and embedding prevention, strengths-based practice and self-directed support across a large geographic area. A credible future supplier would need practical capability in facilitation and system change, including working with local communities, statutory services, third-sector partners and people with lived experience. Relevant strengths include designing community collaboration networks, improving advice and early-support pathways, redesigning processes, supporting leaders and delivering workshops, mentoring and peer learning. Experience coordinating and reporting a multi-year programme would also be relevant. The buyer relied on the incumbent provider’s model, intellectual property, methodology and prior programme learning to justify a direct limited award, so comparable specialist expertise and a clear, transferable implementation approach would matter to a competing provider.

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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-r6ebe6-0000841015
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP565191
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
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
£230,000 £100K-£500K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
24 Sep 20261 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Not Specified
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

Notice Documents

  • https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG563021
    HH387-26-TW10 Community Led Support (ASC) - 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.
  • https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP565191
    HH387-26-TW10 Community Led Support (ASC) - 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.

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