Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13bd0-819a-7044-b2ff-1ff5b7787bd6/better-care-transformation-programme-consultancy awarded GB direct award procedure # Better Care Transformation Programme Consultancy [Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council](https://tendernation.io/buyers/sandwell-metropolitan-borough-council) Estimated value Not stated Published 5 May 2026 Deadline Rolling deadline ## About this tender Direct Award Procurement of specialist consultancy services. This service will provide operational and analytical capacity to undertake a strategic review of the current Better Care Fund BCF programme. The term of the commission will be 52 weeks from the award date with the option of a further 26 weeks. The new agreement builds directly upon diagnostic findings, financial modelling, and service redesign work already completed by ARCC in 2025. A direct award is considered justified and lawful under the Procurement Act 2023 (Chapter 3, Section 41 and Schedule 5, paragraph 7), which permits award to an existing supplier where a change in supplier would result in disproportionate technical or operational difficulties, duplication of costs, or incompatibility with existing work. Source Find a Tender (UK) · Notice ocds-h6vhtk-05ec94-2026-05-05T15:02:28+01:00 [View official notice](https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/ocds-h6vhtk-05ec94-2026-05-05T15:02:28+01:00) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. [Track tenders free](https://tendernation.io/register) [Buyer profile Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council: past awards and live tenders](https://tendernation.io/buyers/sandwell-metropolitan-borough-council) ## More tenders like this [Invitation to Tender Window Cleaning Services - Wirral · Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust · 33 days left · 20 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a1539a-cf1d-702b-9ffd-93cfa91d3c7c/invitation-to-tender-window-cleaning-services-wirral) [Boiler chemical and Softener Services · Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · 29 days left · 16 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a1539a-d092-736b-88d2-6bdc251cddb6/boiler-chemical-and-softener-services) [Supply of Timberwolf fixed track woodchipper TW 280 FTR and for Williams trailer TT3017 · Natural England · 19 days left · 6 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a1539a-d25f-7042-8204-c91978cd4253/supply-of-timberwolf-fixed-track-woodchipper-tw-280-ftr-and-for-williams-trailer) [Home Transition Bed Service - Winter Pressures · North Tyneside Borough Council · 4 days left · 23 Oct 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a15107-78f4-739e-9d89-50d65f165d99/home-transition-bed-service-winter-pressures) [RRE-01284 - For the provision of a Digitally Enabled Children & Young People's Mental Health Service (South Staffordshire) · Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust · 15 days left · 3 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a150b5-126d-71a0-9217-fa9167c1e352/rre-01284-for-the-provision-of-a-digitally-enabled-children-young-peoples-m) [Gardening and Landscaping Contract · Wickersley Parish Council · 33 days left · 20 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a14ee2-22ea-7053-bd7d-4e4c0fa22e9d/gardening-and-landscaping-contract)