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Effective use of data and insight to support operational management and performance oversight

Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA) · Tender notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

Working with Directors of Adult Social Services (DASS) and their teams to improve their effective use of their data and insight to support their operational management and performance oversight, embedding the use and role of data and insight to underpin effective delivery of legal duties. The core aims of this work are to • provide practical and purposeful support to up to four councils who are looking to strengthen how they use their data and insight to monitor, understand, and improve performance across their adult social care services. • work with DASS’s and their management teams to understand how they can embed the effective use of their data and insight to underpin their delivery of legal duties. • To draw on the learning from this support to provide insight to inform future support offers and related resources. • Overall, to promote and spark professional curiosity in DASSs and their management teams to enhance their use of local data and insight. Objectives: To work with DASS’s and their management teams to: - Identify areas for improvement in their use of their data and insight that will enable better evidence-based decision-making to achieve better outcomes for people who draw on care and support, and enable more efficient use of resources. - Provide practical and purposeful support that DASSs are able to act on, drawing where possible on current-state learning from councils who do this well. - To support the DASSs and their management team to develop and start to implement an action plan that enables a culture change in how they use their local data and strengthens their capacity and capability to make effective and timely use of their data and insight to support operational management and performance oversight. - Capture the learning from this work to underpin the development of further support and resources to progress councils’ overall data maturity and practical use of data in adult social care. The scope to extend the learning to other councils is recognised as integral to this work. Project Requirements: • To provide practical and purposeful support to up to five councils (who have been assessed as Requires Improvement by CQC) who are looking to strengthen how they use data and insight to monitor, understand, and improve performance across their adult social care services. • To plan and deliver the work in such a way that it can begin to enable a culture change, where the use of data and insight is routinely seen and used as a foundation to improvement. • To enable a learning opportunity between the councils as appropriate, drawing on practical experience and support of councils who are doing this well. • To report on common themes found across the councils to enable further, wider learning Areas of focus: The Provider will be expected to work alongside each council to identify opportunities to strengthen and embed the use of data and insight across their Adult Social Care services to drive improvement and assurance.

Classification

  • CPV85311000 — Social work services with accommodation
  • CPV85312100 — Daycare services
  • CPV85312400 — Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
  • CPV85320000 — Social services

Lots

  • Lot 1£37.5k

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
LG-4815
Status
active
Procurement Method
open
Procurement Method Details
Below threshold - open competition
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
No

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Submission terms

Electronic Submission Policy
allowed

Tender Period

Ends
12 Apr 2026, 17:00

Enquiry period

Ends
2 Apr 2026, 17:00

Other Requirements

Reserved Participation

smeVcse

Reserved Participation Location

Gazetteer

Scheme
GB-ONS

Identifiers

K02000001

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
active

Value

Including VAT
45,000
Amount
37,500
Currency
GBP

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Type
quality
Name
Price 10%
Description
Price 10% Capability - 30% Relevant Skills and experience - 30% Delivery methodology - 30% Ability to deliver within the set timescale - 10%

Numbers

Entry 1
Number
100
Weight
percentageExact

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Contract period

Starts
20 Apr 2026, 01:00
Ends
31 Jul 2026, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
85320000
Description
Social services
Entry 2
Scheme
CPV
Id
85312400
Description
Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
Entry 3
Scheme
CPV
Id
85312100
Description
Daycare services
Entry 4
Scheme
CPV
Id
85311000
Description
Social work services with accommodation

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
A-13668
Document Type
biddingDocuments
Format
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Entry 2
Id
025795-2026
Document Type
tenderNotice
Notice Type
UK4
Description
Tender notice on Find a Tender
Published
20 Mar 2026, 13:44
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA)
Id
GB-COH-03675577

Identifier

Scheme
GB-COH
Id
03675577

Address

Street Address
18 smith square
Locality
london
Postal Code
sw1p 3hz
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKI32

Contact

Name
Marie Coffey

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicUndertaking
Description
Public undertaking

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · london · UKI32 · sw1p 3hz · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 025795-2026Tender notice on Find a Tender ·