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title: "DHSC: FGO: Simplify & Deliver - recruitment process improvement support"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-05f5e9"
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buyer: "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE"
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# DHSC: FGO: Simplify & Deliver - recruitment process improvement support

Buyer: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05f5e9

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## Summary

The Department of Health & Social Care has awarded a contract for consultancy services titled "DHSC: FGO: Simplify & Deliver – recruitment process improvement support," under the industry category of Business and Management Consultancy Services. This procurement process, classified as direct and conducted without competition due to being below the threshold, was finalised with the supplier CANVS LTD based in London, United Kingdom. The contract commenced on 15th December 2025 and will run until 15th February 2026, with a gross value of £29,640. This initiative is part of a broader programme to optimise internal recruitment processes within the department and leverage digital systems for enhanced efficiency.

The awarded contract presents a valuable opportunity for businesses specialising in rapid process improvement and digital system integration, particularly those in business consultancy. The project calls for preparing and delivering process improvements in a live environment, offering scope for high-impact skills in technology integration and change management. Companies with expertise in these areas can find promising growth prospects by providing solutions that address inefficiency and deliver measurable enhancements to recruitment processes within governmental frameworks.

## Notice

The Simplify and Deliver programme aims to improve how our department operates in order to become more effective. Ministers, the Permanent Secretary and our own staff have cited the need to overcome unnecessary bureaucracy and inefficient processes, dismantle siloes, empower teams and make better use of supporting technology. The programme is proceeding through three phases: a) assess and prioritise the biggest opportunities for change alongside delivering some simpler changes, b) co-design harder changes, test and learn with a number of teams across the department before c) using these teams to support wider adoption of successful changes. This requirement relates to one of our simpler changes, to streamline the process for internal recruitment in the department. This has been prioritised by a network of staff as a key challenge, and is high impact as most teams engage in it. Improvements could save significant amounts of time and speed up delivery by weeks. However, internally in DHSC we do not have many people with skills and experience in rapid process improvement, or with the ability to simultaneously make changes to digital systems to deliver improvements quickly. We are proposing to use specialist skills to support this process over a period of 5-6 weeks. Objectives of the work: * Prepare for process improvement of internal recruitment through understanding current process, stakeholders, digital systems, constraints, data collection/analysis * Run a rapid improvement event to take process from current to improved state in a 'live' environment (i.e. improving the systems as the event progresses), where the new process is measurably faster and to a higher quality * Conduct any follow up activity to ensure new process can be fully embedded

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/082973-2025 |
| 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 | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 8 Dec 2025 |
| Contract period | 15 Dec 2025 - 15 Feb 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £24,700 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1H 0EU |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | CANVS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services

## Release History

- 15 Dec 2025 at 14:53 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/082973-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/082973-2025
  15th December 2025 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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