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title: "Children Looked After Sufficiency"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-05ab1a"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "LEEDS CITY COUNCIL"
published: "2025-10-08"
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# Children Looked After Sufficiency

Buyer: LEEDS CITY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05ab1a

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## Summary

Leeds City Council has completed a public procurement process titled "Children Looked After Sufficiency" under the ESPO Consultancy Services Framework. This procurement, aimed at enhancing the understanding and delivery of high-quality and cost-effective residential placements for children, took place between 15th September 2025 and 30th November 2025. The procurement method was direct, below threshold and conducted without competition. The contract is associated with regions in the United Kingdom, specifically UKE42, and falls within the services industry category focusing on general management consultancy services. The contract value is noted at £200,000, with the process reaching the award stage on 8th October 2025.

The tender offers significant business opportunities for companies specialising in consultancy services, particularly those with expertise in the public welfare and residential placement sectors. Given its focus on consultancy and management, large consultancy firms like NEWTON CONSULTING LIMITED, which was the awarded supplier, are well-suited to compete for such contracts. Firms that can demonstrate an ability to assess organisational context and stakeholder challenges, deliver high-quality solutions, and stimulate market-based initiatives will find substantial opportunities to grow their business through similar public authority engagements. The project emphasizes collaborative efforts to improve service frameworks and optimise placements, providing a platform for scalable impact and value addition.

## Notice

The Review aims to: understand the organisation context, challenges and stakeholder landscape in order to inform and agree a scope of work to inform its clients; understand the opportunities, quantify them and prioritise them by scale of impact; and enable the Customer to ensure it receives high quality and good value for money placements from the market by ensuring that: the right children are in the Customer's residential placements, with high quality and high stability; the Customer understands the needs of CYP and matches the support provided by providers to their needs; the Customer has processes and practice that enables it to get the right best stable and best value for money placements for an individual CYP; and the customer stimulates the market and commissions the right providers on the best framework. PS200,000 15th September 2025 to 30th November 2025 ESPO Consultancy Services Framework

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063486-2025 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - without competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 8 Oct 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 5 Oct 2025 |
| Contract period | 5 Oct 2025 - 30 Nov 2025 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £200,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | LEEDS CITY COUNCIL |
| Locality | LEEDS |
| Post town | Leeds |
| Postcode | LS1 1UR |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber |
| ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire |
| ITL 3 | TLE42 Leeds |
| Local authority | Leeds |
| Electoral ward | Little London & Woodhouse |
| Westminster constituency | Leeds Central and Headingley |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | NEWTON CONSULTING |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79411000 - General management consultancy services

## Release History

- 8 Oct 2025 at 17:15 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063486-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063486-2025
  8th October 2025 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- http://www.newtonimpact.com
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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