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Delivery of Wirral Council's Connect to Work Individual Placement Support (IPS) Programme

Education and training services
North West (UKD74)
Published value
£4,064,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Wirral Council: "Delivery of Wirral Council's Connect to Work Individual Placement Support (IPS) Programme". Published status: planning. Published value: £4,064,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityWirral CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£4,064,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Wirral Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Wirral Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3Bids / Report
31.3% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
WIRRAL COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTTop vendor: 80.8% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 98 active published awards; 16 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
WIRRAL COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST1 win£36,975,339
KAARBON TECHNOLOGY LTD1 win£6,000,000
CORSTORPHINE + WRIGHT LIMITED1 win£725,625
TURNER & TOWNSEND PROJECT MANAGEMENT LIMITED3 wins£552,757
Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited1 win£498,750
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityWirral Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
Last source update5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationEducation and training services
Delivery area
North West (UKD74)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05f00d
What is being bought
Wirral Borough Council (the "Council") is looking for a provider to deliver under contract, the Individual Placement Support (IPS) element of LCR's Connect to Work Connect programme. The value of Wirral's IPS Fund is an estimated £4,064,000. Connect to Work is a voluntary programme to help tackle economic inactivity by providing a specific form of support targeted at the right people at the right time, based on their individual circumstances. Participants must be both eligible and suitable for the provision. Connect to Work will deliver the evidence-based Supported Employment model, 'place, train, and maintain'. The IPS element of Connect to Work will give particular attention to helping residents who because of their situation, are more likely to face significant disadvantage when trying to gain employment.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. tender value changed
    5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
  2. Status changed to planning
    5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
  4. Buyer information updated
    5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    5 Dec 2025, 16:01 GMT
  3. engagement
    16 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    Wirral Council is looking for a provider to deliver under contract, the Individual Placement Support (IPS) element of LCR's Connect to Work Connect programme. Connect to Work is a voluntary programme to help tackle economic inactivity by providing a specific form of support targeted at the right people at the right time, based on their individual circumstances. Participants must be both eligible and suitable for the provision. Connect to Work will deliver the evidence-based Supported Employment model, 'place, train, and maintain'. The IPS element of Connect to Work will give particular attention to helping residents who because of their situation, are more likely to face significant disadvantage when trying to gain employment. An online pre-market engagement is taking place as per the details below via Eventbrite. Event Details of Engagement Event Date: Tuesday 16th December 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm (Online - MS Teams) Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977020147481?aff=oddtdtcreator
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Wirral Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PBCP-8675-BHWT
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Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published