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Ceredigion - Production Of Local Housing Market Assessment (LHMA)

Awarded to ., BWB Consulting, OPINION RESEARCH SERVICES LIMITED +2 more

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Published
Published 9 August 2024
Deadline
Closed 24 September 2024

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Overview

West Yorkshire Combined Authority has awarded a £320.38 million contract for consultancy services to support transition from the existing Combined Services and Assets (CoSA) database software, with the work split among BWB Consulting, Ove Arup & Partners Ltd, and SYSTRA LIMITED. The scope covers transition support under separate software development contracts, spanning consulting, organizational change, and technical advisory services.

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Lots (28)

  • 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.

    £5,000,000Won by .
  • 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

    £62,000,000
  • 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

    £10,000,000
  • 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

    £1,000,000
  • 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

    £6,000,000
  • 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

    £2,000,000
  • 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

    £2,000,000
  • 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)

    £4,000,000
  • Lot 2e - Revenues and Benefits

    Including, but not limited to, advice around: - Efficiency reviews - Government returns - Heath check programmes - Model adoptions - Payment arrears

    £1,000,000
  • 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)

    £2,000,000
  • 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

    £6,000,000
  • 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

    £2,000,000Won by .
  • 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

    £3,000,000
  • 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

    £67,000,000
  • 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

    £66,000,000Won by .
  • 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

    £3,000,000
  • 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)

    £6,000,000
  • Lot 7 - Sport Leisure, Culture and Tourism Lot No

    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

    £7,000,000Won by .
  • 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

    £8,000,000
  • 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

    £11,000,000
  • 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

    £7,000,000
  • 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

    £2,000,000
  • 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

    £10,000,000
  • 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

    £5,000,000
  • 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

    £7,000,000
  • 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

    £8,000,000
  • 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

    £2,000,000
  • 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

    £5,000,000

Key details

Country
United Kingdom
Status
In delivery
Category
Services
Estimated value
£320,000,000
Procedure
Selective
Contract type
Framework agreement
Published
9 August 2024
Deadline
Closed
Classification (CPV)
Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house servicesFinancial consultancy servicesTreasury servicesHousing servicesFeasibility study, advisory service, analysisTransport systems consultancy servicesHighways consultancy servicesStructural engineering consultancy services+26 more

Award outcome

Awarded value
£320,411,004
Award date
13 October 2026
Contract period
31 August 2025 → 31 August 2027
Winners
  • .
  • BWB Consulting
  • OPINION RESEARCH SERVICES LIMITED
  • Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
  • SYSTRA LIMITED

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Notice history

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  1. Contract

    20 October 2026

  2. Contract

    15 June 2026

  3. Contract

    20 November 2025

  4. Contract

    30 October 2025

  5. Contract

    29 October 2025

  6. Tender Update

    24 September 2024

  7. Contract Notice

    9 August 2024

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