Award

Independent Chair

  • Sheffield City Council

UK6: Contract award notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-043124

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-056641

Published 25 July 2025, 1:01pm



Scope

Description

For an (Interim) Independent Chair to support an improvement project to set up a SEND partnership, with a focus on improvement and a secure partnership board.

The aim is to establish and move the partnership to the point where it can consider its arrangements for permanent chair. This will be when the partnership is securely established, fully functioning, and may have moved through an accelerated period of improvement following an Area SEND Ofsted Inspection, and therefore be in a stable position.


Contract 1. Independent Chair

Supplier

Contract value

  • £50,000 excluding VAT
  • £60,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Award decision date

24 July 2025

Earliest date the contract will be signed

25 July 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 August 2025 to 30 September 2026
  • 1 year, 2 months

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

Contract locations

  • UKE32 - Sheffield

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - without competition


Supplier

Grant Public Consultancy Limited

53-355 Station Road, Bamber Bridge

Preston

PR5 6EE

United Kingdom

Region: UKD45 - Mid Lancashire

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1. Independent Chair


Contracting authority

Sheffield City Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PPQT-9425-JWVM

The Town Hall, Pinstone St

Sheffield

S1 2HH

United Kingdom

Region: UKE32 - Sheffield

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government