Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- North Northamptonshire Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Inner Circle Consulting Limited SME
- Value
- £58,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health and social work services (CPV 85000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 099171-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Oct 2026
- Published20 Oct 2026Published the same day
Description
The appointed consultancy will be required to: • Produce an ambitious, innovative and deliverable Supported Housing Strategy and Delivery Plan for North Northamptonshire Council. • Identify how supported housing can contribute to meeting future housing, health, wellbeing, social care, children's services and community needs across North Northamptonshire. • Provide a comprehensive assessment of current supported housing provision, accommodation pathways, housing-related support services and future requirements. • Identify unmet need, service gaps, emerging demand pressures and opportunities for improvement across the supported housing system. • Develop a clear framework for stimulating market development, commissioning activity and investment, including consideration of alternative, innovative and emerging models of supported housing and housing-related support. • Set out how North Northamptonshire Council can use its role as Strategic Housing Authority, commissioner, place shaper and …
About the supplier
Inner Circle Consulting Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06799707).