Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 14 Jul 2025, 14:22 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Facilitating the development of youth activity across Carmarthenshire’s rural market towns

Official notice

Authority: Carmarthenshire County Council (Local council)

ServicesBelow thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£60,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 11 Aug 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 moends 31 Mar 2026 · up to 30 Mar 2027 with extensions · starts 10 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Carmarthenshire County Council is seeking experienced youth facilitators to support the development of youth led activities across ten of the County’s rural market towns as part of an initiative supported by the County’s Ten towns programme.

The Ten Towns programme is a targeted programme of initiatives that aim to support the regeneration of Carmarthenshire rural market towns. The focus of the programme to date has been on business grants and public realm enhancements.

Since the inception of the programme, the lack of youth activity within each town alongside the underutilisation of community assets has been a common challenge that has been raised by town stakeholders.

The aim of this commission is to bring young people who have a connection to each of the rural market towns together, to co-develop new activities with other community organisations predominantly community assets.

A small amount of funding will be made available to each area to realise their projects which will be administered by Carmarthenshire County Council which falls outside the scope of this commission.

This contract is funded from the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund.

CPV: Health and social work services · Public relations services · Services provided by youth associations · Youth education services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 7 moSMEVCSE
Contract period: 10 Sept 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 (7 mo) · up to 30 Mar 2027 with extensions
Delivery: WalesEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

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
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Jul 2025, 14:22 BST
Last source update
14 Jul 2025, 14:22 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-039654
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work servicesPublic relations servicesServices provided by youth associationsYouth education services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055ea6 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 Jul 2025 → 10 Sept 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    14 Jul 2025, 14:22 BST
  2. Market engagement
    8 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST

    The purpose of this early market engagement exercise is to

    Inform potential providers about this upcoming opportunity

    Gauge supplier interest

    Understand market

    We would like to invite interested parties to email Mared Pemberton [email protected] for further information.

  3. Tender notice expected
    11 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts
    10 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Jul 2025, 14:22 BST
    UK2

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

Carmarthenshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PTVL-7854-TMRZ County Hall, Carmarthen, Wales, SA31 1JPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure