plannedFind a Tender · planning Update

Future Employment Support

BuyerDepartment for Work & Pensions

Statusplanned

DeadlineNot published

Value£1,200,000,000

Published12 Jun 2026

What is being bought

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is intending to procure new employment support provision for out of work Universal Credit claimants.  It will provide personalised and tailored support that is responsive to the needs of individuals and the local area. This will include skills, training and work experience; matching participants with employers through job trials, jobs fairs and job brokering; support with self-employment; intensive and repeated support with applications and interviewing; support in managing health conditions in the workplace; support with travel and childcare; and specialist support (e.g. ESOL, addiction). Support will be available across England and Wales and will be integrated within local labour markets. DWP is co-designing the provision with Mayoral Strategic Authorities to ensure it is tailored to the needs of local labour markets. This notice refers to the procurement of the service in England only. This notice seeks to invite interested suppliers to attend an upcoming virtual Market Engagement event on the 2nd June. To register interest in the event, please follow the steps set out in the Engagement Description section of this notice. Please note, that all key decisions including final programme title, budgets, contract length and dates are yet to be approved through internal governance and therefore may change. The total contract value given is excluding VAT and is estimated at this stage. **** Update 12/6/26 **** A further virtual market engagement event will be held on Thursday 9th July 2026 at 2pm. Suppliers who wish to participate in the event should ensure that they have registered their interest in the ‘Future Employment Support’ opportunity via Atamis. Further updates and event details will be issued through the system.

Delivery location

UKC, GB · UKD, GB · UKE, GB · UKF, GB · UKG, GB · UKH, GB · UKI, GB · UKJ, GB · UKK, GB

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned

Contract periodFrom 1 Feb 2028 to 31 Jan 2031

SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Education and training services, Administration, defence and social security services, Administration services, General public services, Government services, Compulsory social security services, Benefit services, Sickness benefits, Unemployment compensation benefits, Job search services, Adult and other education services, E-learning services, Training services, Specialist training services, Training facilities, Training seminars, Vocational training services, Computer training services, Computer courses, Health training services, Health and social work services, Health services, Services provided by medical personnel, Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions, Rehabilitation services, Vocational rehabilitation services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 75. The category anchor is Administration, defence and social security services (75000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 75	656	3 median · 63.8 average (133 of 656 with a bid count)	4 average (161 of 656 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	2	Not published	Not published	Not published
Delivery region: UKC	28	1 median · 1.6 average (7 of 28 with a bid count)	1 average (7 of 28 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)	21	Not published	Not published	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimelightTouch

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones1

Milestone	Type	Due	Status
The Department for Work and Pensions is procuring a new employment support provision offering personalised and tailored support to out‑of‑work Universal Credit claimants and is seeking to engage with the market to support this. As part of this process, the DWP will host a virtual market engagement event via Microsoft Teams, scheduled to take place Tuesday 02 June 2026 at 2pm. To register an interest in attending the event and access details of the market engagement, organisations should follow the steps below: 1. Suppliers should ensure that they are registered on the DWP Atamis portal. Suppliers who do not already have an account on the Atamis system can register for a new account here: New User Registration https://dwp2.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk 2. Express Interest on the Portal: Suppliers should navigate to the ‘Find Opportunities’ page and click on the title of the opportunity (‘Future Employment Support’) and click Register Interest. 3. Suppliers should navigate to the Documents section of the procurement, and access the document entitled “Market Engagement - 02 June 2026” and follow the instructions in the document including completion of the enclosed short survey. 4. DWP will issue an invite to the Market Engagement event to any suppliers who complete the above steps. Organisations should ensure that this is done by 29 May 2026. 5. Market Engagement documentation including Question & Answer logs from the session will be hosted on Atamis. 6. Information on future market engagement events will be shared via the Atamis portal. For Atamis Portal help and support, please visit: Supplier Portal Help page https://suppliersupport.atamis.co.uk/hc/en-gb/sections/4612344115359 Please note that the purpose of this Notice is for market engagement only. It does not signify the commencement of any procurement process and does not constitute any commitment by the Department. Participation in this engagement is voluntary and does not form part of any formal procurement process. A separate notice(s) will be published at the relevant time should the Department decide to commence any procurement(s).	engagement	29 May 2026	scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender planning · marketEngagementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

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Latest release ID	055672-2026
Latest release timestamp	Fri Jun 12 2026 11:42:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planned
Procurement method	Not published
Procurement method details	Not published
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Yes
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	£1,200,000,000
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	1

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
12 Jun 2026	planningUpdate	055672-2026
28 Apr 2026	planning	038568-2026
2 Apr 2026	planning	030871-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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28 Apr 2026 · 038568-2026 · planning

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2 Apr 2026 · 030871-2026 · planning

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