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Who pays? Understanding cost misalignment between the NHS and Local Government

Open United Kingdom Research & development

Buyer Local Government Association (LGA)

29 days left

Key facts

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23:59 (UTC)
Estimated value
€18,816
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 28 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

28 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 19 and 31 days, based on 2,111 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

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The Local Government Association seeks a supplier to carry out a focused policy research project on the interaction between NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and local authority adult social care. The research will examine how funding and accountability arrangements across health and social care affect CHC decision-making and adult social care expenditure, whether incentives between organisations are misaligned, the impacts on local government, the NHS, people drawing on care and unpaid carers, and what reforms could improve alignment. Recent evidence cited includes the ADASS Spring Survey 2026 and The King's Fund research on falling CHC eligibility rates and variation between Integrated Care Board areas.

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The Local Government Association (LGA) is seeking a supplier to undertake a focused policy research project exploring the interaction between NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and local authority adult social care. Recent evidence has highlighted growing concerns about the relationship between CHC decision-making, adult social care expenditure and the incentives created by current funding arrangements. ADASS's Spring Survey 2026 found that 75% of Directors of Adult Social Services reported an increase in the number of people presenting to adult social care who were, or previously would have been, eligible for CHC, while 84% reported that Integrated Care Board (ICB) disinvestment in CHC was contributing to adult social care overspending pressures. Research published by The King's Fund found that CHC eligibility rates have fallen significantly despite no change to the national eligibility framework, alongside substantial variation between different ICB areas. While CHC provides the primary lens for this project, the LGA is also interested in the wider question of whether current funding and accountability arrangements across health and social care create incentives that transfer costs and risks between organisations rather than supporting whole-system decision making. The LGA wishes to better understand: • How these issues are playing out locally • Whether current arrangements create misaligned incentives between organisations • The impact on local government, the NHS, people drawing on care and support, and unpaid carers • What reforms could improve alignment between health and social care funding and accountability. This work will inform future LGA policy development and engagement with government, national partners and stakeholders.

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    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €18,816.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Research & development.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    29 days left, 21 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €53,259 and €313,321.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 4 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

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  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 224 awards for Research & development in United Kingdom.

This notice
€18,816
Median award
€116,119
Middle half of past awards
€53,259 to €313,321

The estimate is smaller than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Local Government Association (LGA)

United Kingdom

notices in the register
4

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Research & development - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD 12 €30.8M Sep 2026
WSP UK LIMITED 6 €5.9M Sep 2026
Ove Arup 6 €1.7M Sep 2026
Ipsos Mori 6 €786,482 Aug 2026
Verian Group UK Limited 5 €4.8M Sep 2026

Based on 273 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

Market context

Larger than 4% of the open notices in Research & development across Europe.

open now in Research & development
619
median open notice
€295,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Research & development

different companies won awards here
198
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
99

Based on 273 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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