Awarded contract

Policy Skills Development Project to support Health and Social Care Reform

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): INTERNATIONAL FUTURES FORUM
Value: £8,000
Topic: Specialist training services
Published: 8 October 2025
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

To cover two phases of activity relating to improving policy skills for those involved in public sector reform, focussed on health and social care colleagues. Phase 1 - discovery - involving interviews, desk based research; and phase 2 - workshop - to agree next steps etc. Lot 1: To cover two phases of activity relating to improving policy skills for those involved in public sector reform, focussed on health and social care colleagues. Phase 1 - discovery - involving interviews, desk based research; and phase 2 - workshop - to agree next steps etc.

Timeline

Completed: Award date1 September 2025
Completed: Award published8 October 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

80510000 · Specialist training services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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