Consultancy 

Conict has undertaken a wide variety of consultancy over the past four years.  Much of the consultancy work is carried out by Nick herself, some is delivered in partnership with colleagues that Nick has worked with for many years.  
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Organisation	Contract
​Youth Homelessness Support	Conict has been working with this charity for several years now, undertaking market research, competitor research, business development and providing tendering support.  Most recently  Nick has been successfully acting as their Trusts and Foundations Manager whilst they recruited to the post.
Homelessness Charity	Nick worked with this organisation to prepare them for a tender process.
Consortium of smaller providers	​Nick was approached to support a group of 11 smaller providers who were looking to tender for a floating support service in London.  Several of the providers were very small community groups and therefore needed significant support to enable them to tender.  Conict successfully supported them through the PQQ stage and ITT stage to become approved providers on the framework.
​Probation	​As a subcontractor to HgO Consultancy, Nick worked with Mark to undertake a strategic review of three womens’ services on behalf of a large Probation Trust.
Police Commissioner	Conict was asked to put a team together to undertake an options appraisal of potential models for a Victims Contact Unit on behalf of a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).   As a result of this work Conict was then asked to carry out a similar piece of work for another PCC
​Housing and Support Provider in the South West	Following the delivery of a Tendering Training Course, Nick provided ongoing support to help this organisation through three large tenders, all of which were successful.
​Service User Group	​Conict worked with a service user group, and through delivery of a series of bespoke training courses helped them prepare to Participate in and present to Local Authority Committees Undertake reviews of services Play an active role in Tender Panels.
New Social Care Organisation ​	Conict worked with a start-up organisation who was seeking to develop in the social care field.  Examining national, regional and local strategies as well as market need to make recommendations over the type of support that should be provided enable a full business plan to be developed.
Large Support Organisation ​	Conict developed and updated policies for support staff within this large charitable support organisation.  This work involved ensuring policies were in line with latest legal requirements, Supporting People and Care Quality Commission requirements as well as best practice.