Official UK procurement notice
Early Years Mentoring Service
Authority: Islington Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEarly Help Mentoring Service
A bespoke service delivering intensive mentoring for children aged 5-11 in Islington, or those looked after by Islington Council, with behavioural difficulties. The service aims to:
Engage children and young people at risk of poor educational attendance/attainment or multiple school suspensions/exclusions.
Focus on children less likely to achieve good educational outcomes.
Represent Islington’s diverse population.
Key Points:
Referrals primarily from primary schools, but also from other agencies supporting children and families.
Targeted support to improve educational outcomes and reduce behavioural issues.
Suppliers must also demonstrate their ability to work within an integrated and safe children and family’s framework. In addition, Islington will be looking for an organisation who have the ability to lever in additional resources to expand the Islington service over the life of the contract
This procurement is dependant on securing external funding. The annual funding available is up to £150,000.
CPV: Guidance and counselling services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 13 Apr 2025, 22:26 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Apr 2025, 22:26 BST
- Authority reference
2425-0763- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-014795- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050206Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Apr 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published13 Apr 2025, 22:26 BST
- Market engagement15 May 2025, 00:59 BST
Important Information
This Notice is for informational purposes only and is not a formal invitation to tender. Its aim is to enhance transparency and competition for the upcoming contract notice. All details provided here may be updated or changed in the final contract notice.
The Council reserves the right to cancel, postpone, suspend or abort this procurement at any stage. The issue of this notice in no way commits the Council to commence the procurement process.
Engagement Session
Suppliers interested in this opportunity are invited to attend a virtual information and engagement session to be held on Microsoft Teams on 7th May 2025 at 12pm-1pm
Contact Information
Commissioner Name: Catherine Briody
Commissioner Job Title: Head of VAWG & Youth Safety Commissioning
Commissioner Email: [email protected]
Alternative contact [email protected]
- Contract starts211 days ago1 Apr 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Apr 2025, 22:26 BSTUK2
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
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