Lot 1a - Business Services
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Alternative delivery models
- Business continuity and resilience
- Business transformation
- Change management
- Commercialisation
- Corporate social responsibility
- Disaster recovery systems and testing
- Crisis and emergency preparedness, contingency planning, and response
- Funding research, applications and bids
- Improvement programmes
- Innovation
- Legislation compliance
- Net zero (design, procurement, and finance)
- Marketing services and management
- Organisational design and policy
- Process mapping
- Programme and project management
- Project management
- Quality management
- Risk management and mitigation
- Service improvement
- Staff recruitment and retention
- Strategy development
- Supply chain management
- Whole-Life carbon, cost and risk, management & planning
- Workforce planning and transformation
Lot 1b - Procurement and Contract Management Services
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Category management
- Contract management
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- E-sourcing
- Efficiencies and savings
- European and global sourcing
- Implementation support
- Post procurement support
- Process mapping and optimisation
- Procurement strategy development and implementation
- Procurement support
- Social Value
- Supplier integration
- Supplier relationship management
- Supply chain resilience
Lot 1c - Education Services
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Apprenticeships and vocational learning
- Academy conversions (including applications, funding, preopening tasks, etc)
- Adult education
- Behavioural improvement programmes
- Curriculum development
- Early years development
- Education strategies and transformation
- Employability skills and professional development
- Governance Policy & Regulations
- Healthy school programmes
- Learning
- Legislation Compliance
- OFSTED support services
- Quality and Internal Verification
- Recruitment and retention
- Research and data analysis
- Safeguarding
- School admission processes and systems
- School policies and initiatives
- School improvement plans
- School remodelling programmes
- SEND Learning
- Student journey
- Student recruitment and support services
Lot 2a - Audit Consultancy
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Audit assessments
- Audit consultancy
- Audit services
- Audit strategies and methodologies
- Benchmarking and quality assurance
- External audits
- Financial audits
- Governance, risk and internal control
- Internal audits
Lot 2b - Internal Audit Services
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Benchmarking and quality assurance
- Compliance reviewing
- Corporate governance
- Fraud investigation
- Internal control reviewing
- Internal audits
- Operational reviewing
- Risk management
- Specified purpose audits
Lot 2c - External Audit Services
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Benchmarking and quality assurance
- Compliance reviewing
- Corporate governance
- External assurance services
- External audits
- Financial audit
- Fraud investigation
- Risk management
- Specified purpose audits
- Statutory audits
Lot 2d - General Finance
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Actuary, investments and pensions
- Banking
- Business Cases
- External funding
- Financial analysis and reporting
- Financial modelling and model reviews
- Financial options
- Financial reviews, evaluations and feasibility studies
- Financial policies and strategies
- Financial procedures and processes
- Funding applications and grants
- PFI advisory services
- Taskforce Carbon Finance Disclosure TCFD)
Lot 2e - Revenues and Benefits
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Efficiency reviews
- Government returns
- Heath check programmes
- Model adoptions
- Payment arrears
Lot 2f - Tax
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Compliance and advisory
- Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)
- Corporation tax
- Customs Duties
- Efficiency schemes
- Employment tax
- Land tax
- Living and national minimum wage
- Nation Insurance Contributions (NICs)
- PAYE and IR35
- Policy development
- Stamp duty
- Tax accounting services
- Tax planning
- Tax technologies
- Value Added Tax (VAT)
Lot 2g - Treasury Management
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Accounting treatment
- Credit ratings
- Codes of practice
- Debt management
- External loan portfolios
- Investment reviews and strategies
- Legislation
- Market conditions
- Prudential indicators
- Treasury management risks
Lot 3 - Food and Catering
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Commercial feasibility and technical reviews
- Equipment and facilities
- Food and drink menus
- Food hygiene
- Healthy eating programmes
- Legislation compliance
- Nutrition
- Options appraisals
- Soft and Hard Facilities Management
- Accident statistics
- Assurance reports and model documentation
- COSHH and HACCP
- H&S legislation
- H&S policies and management
- Inspections and audits
- Notices and corrective action plans
- Risk assessments and controls
- Safe working procedures
Lot 4a - Health
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Behavioural science
- Biostatistics
- Care toolkits
- Clinical evaluations
- Collaborative working arrangements
- Commissioning models
- Departmental and service reviews
- Demand management
- Developing and implementing of public health schemes
- Environmental health
- Epidemiology
- Health education
- Health services administration
- Healthy and happy workplace schemes
- Mental health reviews
- New service business cases
- Personalisation
- Pandemic contingency
- Public health programmes and promotions
- Service efficiency plans and improvements
- Service Transformation
- Service user pathways
- Technology Developments
Lot 4b - Social Care (Adults and Childrens)
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Care toolkits
- Clinical evaluations
- Collaborative working arrangements
- Commissioning models
- Departmental and service reviews
- Demand management
- Health and social care integration
- Outreach programmes
- New service business cases
- Personalisation
- Safeguarding
- Service efficiency plans and improvements
- Service user pathways
- Technology developments
- Vulnerable adults and children's protection
Lot 5 - Highways, Traffic and Transport
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Active travel
- Business cases
- Cycle route planning or improvements
- Demand management
- Funding and funding applications
- Highway Design
- Highway Development Management
- Impact assessments
- Intelligent transport systems
- Junction planning or improvements
- Management strategies of highway structures and assets
- Pedestrian route planning or improvements
- Public transport route planning or improvements
- Road/Route safety
- Spatial planning and health initiatives
- Strategic transport planning
- Street and traffic management
- Transport and transport links
- Travel initiatives
- Travel plans and planning
- Transport planning and modelling
- Vehicle parking, charges and EV charging
Lot 6a - Operational IT
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Artificial Intelligence technology
- Cloud Solutions
- Server solutions
- Software assurance
- Systems development and analysis
- Telecommunications
- Wireless solutions
- Cyber security solutions
Lot 6b - Strategic IT
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Capability assessment, review and development
- Cost analysis and projection
- Data Protection and cyber security
- Digital Strategy Development
- Digital services and transformation
- Disaster recovery
- Forecast, planning and strategy
- IT project and programme management
- Intelligent Automation
- Policy development, maintenance and review
- Process mapping and optimisation
- Risk assessment and risk management (specific to IT)
Lot 7 - Sport Leisure, Culture and Tourism
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Art and cultural services studies
- Child protection
- Commercial and efficiency reviews
- Customer insight information
- Funding and funding applications
- Health and Safety
- Historic site, building, and monument studies
- Increasing public use of services
- Leisure facilities and activities
- Library service studies
- Management improvement programmes
- Museum service studies
- Outsourcing of services
- Physical activity and Wellbeing
- Service strategy design
- Sport service studies
- Technical reviews
- Trusts and joint ventures
Lot 8a - Asset Management and Delivery
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Acquisitions
- Evaluations and reviews
- Liability
- Maintenance
- Management and Delivery
- Management of historic sites, buildings, and monuments
- Mapping
- Property surveys
- Rationalisation
- Remodelling
- Sale and disposal
Lot 8b - Environment and Sustainability
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Assessments and appraisals
- Alternative energy
- Archaeology studies
- Biodiversity
- Carbon foot-printing and reduction
- Carbon reduction and climate change adaptation
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Eco-towns
- Environmental audits
- Environmental initiatives
- Environmental legislation
- Energy efficiency and targets
- Flood defences, alleviation and drainage
- Green technologies
- Heat networks
- Landscape management
- Mapping
- Modelling
- Pollution
- Resource efficiency behaviour change programmes
- Smart cities
- Sustainability
- Water management
- Waste auditing
Lot 8c - Facilities Management
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Delivery Models
- Fire risk
- Hard FM consultancy
- Outsourcing of FM services
- Premises, caretaking and cleaning
- Property security
- Reorganisation of FM services
- Soft FM consultancy
Lot 8d - Health and Safety
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Accident Statistics
- Assurance reports and model documentation
- Building surveys and risk assessments
- COSHH and REACH
- H&S legislation
- H&S policies and management
- Inspections and audits
- Notices and corrective action plans
- Risk assessments and controls
- Safe working procedures
Lot 8e - Housing and Housing Support
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Asset Management
- Benchmarking
- Development project management
- Governance
- Homelessness
- Housing needs and assessments
- Investment programmes
- Living standards, stock condition surveys and risk assessments
- Management and support
- Quality assurance
- Process mapping
- Regeneration project management
- Revenue optimisation and funding
- Risk and internal control
- Service improvement and performance
- Supported housing
- Tenant participation schemes
- Tenant scrutiny
- Transfers and de-commissioning
Lot 8f - Planning, Valuation and Infrastructure
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Agricultural and retail planning
- Employment land reviews
- Local economic assessments
- Planning applications and appeals
- Planning legislation
- Planning taxes and levies
- Spatial planning
- Specialist planning
Lot 8g - Regeneration and Regional Development
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Business case development
- Employment land reviews
- Government policy and awareness
- Historic site, building and monument assessments.
- Income generation schemes
- Local business development
- Local economic assessments
- Regeneration and economic development
- Supply chain development
- Sustainable community strategies
- Sustainable economic growth plans
Lot 8h - Waste and Recycling
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Auditing services
- Alternative waste treatment
- Business cases
- Campaigns
- Carbon assessments
- Commercial waste
- Domestic waste
- Illegal waste tipping
- Legislation
- Management investment programmes
- New waste sites
- Options appraisals
- Permits and accreditations
- Policies and strategies
- Service reviews
- Street cleansing support service
Lot 9a - Research and Engagement
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Academic research
- Communication
- Community research and strategies
- Customer insight information
- Demand management
- Feedback facilitation
- Public dialogue, engagement and consultation
- Soft market testing
- Staff Surveys
- Stakeholder engagement
Lot 9b - Marketing, Communications and PR
Including, but not limited to, advice around:
- Branding
- Creative communications
- Communication and marketing materials
- Crisis management
- Digital communications
- Events management
- Market research
- Marketing campaigns, plans and strategies
- Media relations
- Training for reporting to Government, Parliament and Public Enquiries
- Public relations
- Social media
- Targeting strategies
- Website design
Lot 10 - Strategic Programmes and Projects
Consultancy advice across a wide range of disciplines in relation to high value and/or complex strategic programmes and projects.
Lot 1
Review of feasibility and to undertake detailed design work for 3 structures
