Scope
Description
Like many councils, we have seen our spend on support for children with disabilities grow rapidly in the last few years. We are seeking external support to help us:
- Develop our approach to care purchasing and market management
- Maximising health and education income
- Ensuring practice is sufficiently progression focused
This support needs to be a mix of putting the procedures and tools in place for us to manage long term along with practical 'doing' support, especially focused on provider negotiations. Requirements include the following:
- Care market management
o Skilling up our Arranging Care team to start purchasing for children with disabilities
o Developing procedures and tools to support the Arranging Care team
o Developing approach, procedures, and tools to support contract management
o Developing approach to reducing cost for existing high-cost placements
o Delivery of work to negotiate with most expensive provision to try and reduce cost / ensure they are working in a progression-focused manner
o To identify an approach to source specialist fostering capacity as an alternative to residential provision
- Maximising health and education income
o Putting clear procedures in place to apply for health funding
o Putting clear procedures in place to apply for education funding
o Support to make the case to NWL ICB for better working with NHS
o Delivery of work to make the case to the relevant ICBs for health funding for the most expensive provision where insufficient health funding has been agreed
o Delivery of work to make the case to the education team for education funding for the most expensive provision where insufficient education funding has been agreed
- Progression focused practice
o Review case files for most expensive provision and audit the strength of practice
o Make recommendations as to how practice can be improved
Contract 1
Supplier
Contract value
- £170,000 excluding VAT
- £204,000 including VAT
Below the relevant threshold
Date signed
22 December 2025
Contract dates
- 5 January 2026 to 4 January 2027
- 1 year
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 73220000 - Development consultancy services
Contract locations
- UKI74 - Harrow and Hillingdon
Procedure
Procedure type
Below threshold - without competition
Supplier
CHANNEL 3 CONSULTING LTD
- Companies House: 06824790
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PBZM-9426-RHNV
Capital Building
Cardiff
CF10 4AZ
United Kingdom
Email: bidteam@channel3group.co.uk
Website: https://channel3consulting.co.uk/
Region: UKL22 - Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes
Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No
Contract 1
Contracting authority
London Borough of Harrow
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PQRC-2343-GRQR
Forward Drive
Harrow
HA3 8FL
United Kingdom
Email: procurement@harrow.gov.uk
Region: UKI74 - Harrow and Hillingdon
Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government