PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Transformation Programme

London Borough of Merton · published 9 Sept 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID02997377-7862-461b-9155-dc8620a2590e-913493
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a8bf687c-181c-48ac-a523-15f7dac736fb
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-18525
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£400,000
award field
Tender value
£40,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Direct award
Category
services
CPV
71621000
Technical analysis or consultancy services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Merton Children Lifelong Learning and Families (CLLF) Department is seeking an experienced consultancy to inform children's services transformation and ensure that service change and redesign is built upon local needs, robust financial analysis, our Merton context, national reform requirements and evidence of effective practice.\r \r The consultancy partner will support Merton throughout its discovery, mobilisation phases to build a strong investment case for transformation, potentially leading to extended work on design and implementation

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release9 Sept 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published9 Aug 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published5 Aug 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published10 Aug 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published28 Dec 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Channel 3 Consulting

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 9 Sept 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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