Official UK procurement notice
Connect to Work · Hull City Council (Jul 2025)
Authority: Hull City Council (Local council)·On behalf of: East Riding of Yorkshire Council
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe recently launched "Get Britain Working" White Paper outlines Government's strategy to invest £240m to support the ambition of a national 80% employment rate and help improve workplace health and keep people in work, including trials of combined public services for those out of work due to ill health. Connect to Work is the first major element of the Get Britain Working Strategy.
By encouraging join-up between health systems and employment support, Connect to Work will support those, primarily, currently outside the workforce and facing greater labour market disadvantages, to stay in work and get back into work. In turn, supporting the Government's ambition for a more inclusive economy, supporting local people to realise their potential and supporting local and national growth.
In England and Wales, Connect to Work funding will support around 100,000 disabled people with health conditions and those with complex barriers to get into employment and on in work.
Connect to Work is a new employment programme, funded by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). The programme will primarily support people who are disabled and economically inactive. The programme will be based on the Integrated Placement Support (IPS) and Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) model of supported employment. It will focus on vocational profiling, early engagement with employers and supporting people into work quickly. Ongoing support is then provided to the participant and their employer to help sustain them in work. The programme also involves flexibility to support adults at risk of unemployment due to complex needs to be supported to sustain and improve their employment.
As the Accountable Body, Hull City Council is responsible for the commissioning, implementation and management of Connect to Work but will be working in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council on this exciting programme which will support up to 3400 residents from the Hull and East Riding Area. The programme is expected to run for 5 years.
An Invitation to Tender for Connect to Work Hull East Yorkshire programme will be launched in Late August and will be live for 30 days on the YORtender tendering system.
It is anticipated that delivery will start in late 2025.
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 5 yrs from 1 Nov 2025
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Connect to Work” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Jul 2025, 15:14 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Aug 2025, 08:41 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-045011- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0556e0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
1 Jul 2025 → 1 Nov 2025 · 5 dates- Planning notice published1 Jul 2025, 15:14 BST
- Market engagement11 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
A digital market briefing event is taking place on two separate dates 9th and 11th July for Hull and ERYC respectively.
The link below will allow suppliers to register accordingly:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connect-to-work-ti… ↗
Attendance for the event is not mandatory and will not exclude bidders from responding to the opportunity when it is published
The procurement exercise is due to be released in early August 2025.
- Latest notice published1 Aug 2025, 08:41 BST
- Tender notice expected1 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts363 days ago1 Nov 2025
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Jul 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Jul 2025, 15:14 BSTUK2
- Pipeline notice published1 Aug 2025, 08:41 BSTUK1
- Status changed to planned1 Aug 2025, 08:41 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- East Riding of Yorkshire CouncilProcuring entityHull City Council will be the lead authority in a joint procurement exercsie
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender