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Child Poverty Reduction Programme - In work poverty and good work grants

Buyer: North East Combined Authority →

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BuyerNorth East Combined Authority
StatusOpen
Deadline8 Sept 2026
Value£2,500,000
Published14 Aug 2026

What is being bought

This invitation to tender invites bidders to apply to deliver on the North East MSA's commitment in the North East Child Poverty Action Plan, to reduce in-work poverty through funded support for employers. This work will help more organisations to better understand the financial circumstances of their employees and make meaningful changes to improve working conditions. This work aims to drive social change within the workplace, to reduce the incidence and impact of in-work poverty, increase financial resilience, and create better jobs that make work pay. This is part of a wider programme of work delivering against the North East child poverty action plan and connects directly with SHINE, which is designed to recognise employers who lead with fairness, opportunity and respect. Tender Documentation is available at https://www.open-uk.org under project # OPEN20261761.

Delivery location

UKC14, GB · UKC2, GB

Categories

Research and development services and related consultancy services 73000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£2,500,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Nov 2026 to 31 Mar 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Price (20%)
Quality (80%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Research and development services and related consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 73. The category anchor is Research and development services and related consultancy services (73000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 732,2143 median · 31.6 average (753 of 2,214 with a bid count)2.6 average (854 of 2,214 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKC141Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)9832 median · 32 average (1 of 98 with a bid count)6 average (1 of 98 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06e4bf
Latest release ID077729-2026
Latest release timestampFri Aug 14 2026 13:23:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/077729-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-09-08T15:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-09-04T15:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-10-30T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailsTender Documentation is available at https://www.open-uk.org under project # OPEN20261761.
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,500,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
14 Aug 2026tender077729-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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