Official UK procurement notice
Community Grant Round - Specialist Domestic Abuse Group Work
Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCONTRACTING AUTHORITY: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
CONTACT EMAIL: [email protected]
BID TITLE: Specialist Domestic Abuse Group Work – Community Grant Round
BID REFERENCE: OPCC/SDAGWORK/CGR26-28 (unless instructed otherwise)
ESTIMATED TCV: £300K over two years
TERM: Effective from 01/04/2026 until 31/03/2028
- Please be aware that the total contract value and the term of funding are estimated at the time of issue and remain subject to confirmation.
Funding from the OPCC is confirmed for two years, while other delivery partners have currently approved one year with an intention to commit for two.
BID DESCRIPTION:
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is planning to run a Community Grant Round to allocate two years’ funding to local community-based providers to extend the offers of group work to domestic abuse survivors to each of the six county districts.
This includes:
- Peterborough
- Cambridge City
- East Cambridgeshire
- South Cambridgeshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Fenland
Supporting Victims and Witnesses by providing them with access to support services that are responsive to their individual needs is a key pillar within the Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan.
The intention of the Community Grant round is to:
- extend the offer and availability of place-based group support to survivors of domestic abuse across the county
- enable providers to develop and deliver group work offers which are bespoke to the needs of local victims
- address the current inequitable provision of place-based group work
- build community resilience and encourage volunteering
- reduce feelings of isolation / barriers faced by those victims in need of contact
- support victims of domestic abuse to have coped and built the resilience to move forward with daily life
This Community Grant Round will be open to charitable and community organisations based within the county boundaries of Cambridgeshire.
Details of how to bid into the fund will be published w/c 05/01/2026 on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Police and Crime Commissioner website:
Commissioning and grants
www.cambridgeshire-pcc.gov.uk/commissioning-and-gr… ↗
The deadline for bids to be submitted is 26/01/2026
Successful bidders will be awarded estimated w/c 09/02/2026
CPV: Community health services · Guidance and counselling services · Guidance services · Health and social work services · Social work and related services · Social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
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Lot #1CPV 8530Published estimate£300k
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Peterborough Womens AidLive contract | Specialist Domestic Abuse Support Service - Medium Riskruns to Mar 2029 | — | £738k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Dec 2025, 12:31 GMT
- Last source update
- 17 Dec 2025, 12:31 GMT
- Authority reference
7F-2025-C041- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-083800- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Dec 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published309 days ago17 Dec 2025, 12:31 GMT
- Market engagement268 days ago26 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
Details of how to bid into the fund will be published w/c 05/01/2026 on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Police and Crime Commissioner website: Commissioning and grants
The deadline for bids to be submitted is 26/01/2026
Successful bidders will be awarded estimated w/c 09/02/2026
- Contract starts204 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Dec 2025, 12:31 GMTUK2
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Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender