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Partners in Care and Health Working Age Adults data and benchmarking project

Development of an automated Excel-based data tool to benchmark value for money across all upper-tier councils for working-age adult social care. The tool must integrate publicly available government data, update automatically, and comply with specific accessibility and style guide requirements for publication on the LGA website. The project requires rapid mobilisation to deliver a draft by 1st March 2026 and a final version by 31st March 2026.

Awarded value
£20k
As published
Published
17 December 2025
Awarded
19 January 2026
Oxford Brookes University
Contract length
2 months
Ends 30 March 2026

What the contract covers

Project-based services

Provision of data analysis, benchmarking services, and development of interactive data tools for the adult social care sector.

  • Carry out robust data analysis and benchmarking relating to working-age adults' adult social care offers to interrogate value for money using publicly available data.
  • Produce an internally used, most likely Excel-based data tool for the PCH learning disability and autistic people team and council adult social care senior staff.
  • Build the tool to draw in data on all upper-tier councils delivering adult social care services and update automatically as later years' central-government data is published.
  • Deliver any learning or further recommendations in writing.
  • Make produced written material, tools or content compliant with LGA accessibility requirements and style guide requirements so it can become an online report on the PCH website hosted by LGA.

Terms and requirements

Contract type
Project-based services
Procedure
Open procedure
Initial term
2 months
Contract dates
1 February 2026 to 30 March 2026
Certifications asked for
None stated
Lots
1
Suitable for SMEs
Yes
Suitable for charities and social enterprises
Yes
Category
Services
CPV codes
85000000, 85323000, 85312310, 85312100

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Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government

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Cite this contract

Link
https://bidskim.com/tender/340351/partners-in-care-and-health-working-age-adults-data-and-benchmarking-project
Buyer reference
LG-04610
Open contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f849
Last checked
5 November 2026

Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government. Partners in Care and Health Working Age Adults data and benchmarking project. Contract award, 17 December 2025. BidSkim, https://bidskim.com/tender/340351/partners-in-care-and-health-working-age-adults-data-and-benchmarking-project (accessed 5 November 2026).