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title: "HH387-26-TW10 Community Led Support (ASC)"
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# HH387-26-TW10 Community Led Support (ASC)

Buyer: NHS Highland  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06eb6c

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## Summary

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.

## Notice

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.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080788-2026 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 25 Aug 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 29 Jul 2026 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £250,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS Highland |
| Locality | INVERNESS |
| Postcode area | Inverness |
| Postcode | IV2 3BW |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM2 Highlands and Islands |
| ITL 3 | TLM20 Highlands and Islands |
| Local authority | Highland |
| Electoral ward | Inverness South |
| Westminster constituency | Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire |
| Delivery location | TLK12 Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79411100 - Business development consultancy services

## Release History

- 25 Aug 2026 at 11:59 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080788-2026

## Notice URLs

- http://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000841015
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00302

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