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title: "Employment support products for JCS"
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# Employment support products for JCS

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employment-support-products-for-jcs-ocds-h6vhtk-0672ee). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Work & Pensions: "Employment support products for JCS". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Work & Pensions](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-work-pensions-gov-d10)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Benefit services, Provision of services to the community, Software-related services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employment-support-products-for-jcs-ocds-h6vhtk-0672ee#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0672ee`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employment-support-products-for-jcs-ocds-h6vhtk-0672ee#tl-md)

## Description
Background:
The Get Britain Working (GBW) White Paper, co-authored by the Secretaries of State for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), Department for Education (DfE) and His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT), sets out plans to set the country on a path to bring down economic inactivity and improve employment outcomes.
A key enabler is to reform Jobcentre Plus (JCP) through the creation of a new single and universal Jobs and Careers Service (JCS).  JCS will provide support for anyone who is looking for work, who wants to get on in work, or who wants to change their career or retrain.  It will be a service that values employer engagement, working with employers to understand and support their current and future recruitment needs.
Among the key objectives of JCS are:
•  Creating a digital, universal and fully inclusive service; and,
•  Providing high-quality personalised support to help people into work, support training and get on in work.
Requirements / Contract subject-matter:
DWP Digital teams are progressing digital activity which will underpin JCS and DWP is keen to explore third party solutions which could support this new digital service.
The engagement will cover a wide range of requirements.  DWP has defined 12 areas of employment support which we are keen to explore suitable products for, including AI solutions.
JCS Employment Support categories:
The JCS ‘Employment Support’ categories are listed below:
• ES01 - Career advice
• ES02 - Career planning
• ES03 - Skills gap analysis
• ES04 - Financial planning
• ES05 - Career coaching
• ES06 - Learning / Training / Provision
• ES07 - Job discovery
• ES08 - Job market insights
• ES09 - CV support
• ES10 - Job application support
• ES11 - Application tracking
• ES12 - Interview support
DWP is conducting this preliminary market engagement to help develop the requirements and the strategy/approach for any future procurements for products/services that would align to the JCS Employment Support categories.
Following this preliminary market engagement, DWP may decide to run multiple procurements (with each procurement covering an individual or a group of Employment Support categories), either in parallel or in a phased approach, in line with the priorities of the JCS programme.
Suppliers are invited to participate even if they are only interested in specific components of the wider scope.
Due to the early stage of this engagement and the fact that it could relate to numerous separate procurements, there are certain aspects of any associated procurement activities that are yet to be determined. As a result, there are some sections of this notice which cannot be completed at this time. Where this is the case, we have stated in the relevant field that the information is “To be determined.”   The following points are examples of areas that still need to be determined:
• Procurement procedure:  will any resulting procurements be above or below the relevant thr...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employment-support-products-for-jcs-ocds-h6vhtk-0672ee)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 72260000, 75200000, 75310000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 01/01/2027 to 31/12/2027

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F078391-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-08-18T08:48:18.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T21:07:25.626Z
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