Intent to direct award to CIPFA for training on leadership in public sector finance roles
What the buyer wrote
CIPFA LEAD occupies a genuinely distinct position in the leadership development marketplace, and one that cannot be readily replicated by a generic leadership or management training provider. It is the only programme, in our view, that combines CIPFA's standing as the recognised professional body for public finance with a leadership curriculum built specifically around the statutory realities of the Section 151 and other senior roles that support it in UK local government. The programme explores political accountability, governance failure, guardianship of the public purse, and the technical currency that S151 officers and their teams are required to hold. A general leadership provider cou…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Intent to direct award to CIPFA for training on leadership in public sector finance roles
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Work starts
- 1 Nov 2026
- Work ends
- 31 Jul 2027
- Where
- in Wales
- Kind of work
- Workforce training and development
Who the buyer named
Michael Smith was the named contact on this notice.