# Understanding the future operating environment for professional regulation

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by General Medical Council \(GMC\).

## Key facts

- Buyer: [General Medical Council \(GMC\)](/buyers/general-medical-council-gmc/contract-awards)
- Supplier: Sami Consulting
- Award value: £50,000
- Tender value: £50,000
- Award date: 21 April 2016
- Published: 28 February 2017
- Contract start: 25 April 2016
- Contract end: 24 August 2016
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 470fc171-f5e5-4b79-955a-11a3767046f8-132848
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6bda9045-9ebd-48f7-b563-b7286ed581d4

## Description

The objective of the research is to inform the GMC's long-term strategic planning by modelling plausible trends and developments in our 'operating environment' as defined and discussed above\. This is with the purpose of helping us to anticipate potential developments and to enable us to consider how we may need to respond, or act to take account of such developments, in order to remain relevant and effective\. We briefly outline a suggested approach for a research project to achieve this objective in this section, which is a form of scenario planning\. However we would welcome alternative approaches, provided these are accompanied by a clear rationale, which may better achieve our objective

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/470fc171-f5e5-4b79-955a-11a3767046f8-132848)