Official UK procurement notice
Independent Financial Support Services
Authority: Cardiff Council (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCardiff Council is committed to commissioning Financial Independence Support Services to assist vulnerable adults who have been assessed by Cardiff Council Adult Social Services as requiring support with managing their financial responsibilities. This need is based on an individual’s mental capacity, impairment and an inability to manage their own financial affairs, or risk of financial exploitation.
Cardiff Council is seeking to understand the market from providers who are committed to providing Independent Financial Support Services that meet the needs of vulnerable adults.
The Provider is to provide expert independent advice, information, practical help and statutory support to vulnerable Individuals, who have care and support needs for which Cardiff Council is Commissioning a care and support package to meet their agreed outcomes, on Individual financial management and day-to-day money matters. The service will promote the financial independence and security to Individuals identified by Adult Social Care Teams and will have the capacity to meet individuals face to face that is suitable to the individual in receipt of the service.
Nb. It is ESSENTIAL the provider can support and meet all the identified needs and services as listed below.
The Independent Financial Support Services are for:
- Adults with a learning Disability
- Adults with Autism
- Adults with Neurodiverse Needs
- Adults with Mental Health Issues and Substance Misuse
- Older People With or without dementia
- Adults with a physical and or Sensory Impairment
The purpose of the service is to provide a range of quality, personalised Independent Financial Support Services to Adults who:
- Lack capacity to manage financial matters
- Have Identified Safeguarding concerns and outcomes.
- Has Deteriorated in their ability to manage their own Individual finances based on a Mental Capacity Assessment.
- Live in a care home facility
- Are vulnerable to exploitation
The levels of Support will be identified via an Individuals Care and Support Assessment, in line with the Social Services Wellbeing (WALES) Act 2014, completed by Cardiff Council Adult Services Social Worker Team.
We are seeking organisations who are specialist in delivering the legal, financial, and advise services. Providers must have the capacity and qualified expertise to deliver the following core requirements, including but not limited to:
- Court Of Protection
- Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)
- Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) – Advice
- Appointee Advice
- Appointeeship
- Will & Trust Advice
- Will & Trust Trusteeship
- Motability Access Support
- Financial Advice
- Providing Face to Face Personal advise and Support
The Provider will have in place well trained Officers who are qualified and trained to a high level of education in understanding:
- Safeguarding,
- Mental Capacity Act,
- Money Matters and
- Department of Working Pensions (DWP) / Universal Credit etc.
The Provider will have the resources to implement a dedicated Online platform, for Cardiff Council ‘Social Worker Only’ Referral form, that is designed to ensure all required data is made available to the Provider to ensure a smooth application and speedy implementation of the services requested.
The Provider is required to have a central office located in the Cardiff area, that is accessible to all service users. The Office is to be open to the service users Monday to Friday 52-weeks of the year, except for Bank Holidays.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Cardiff Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
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1 bid14% / 33%
2–357% / 40%
4–629% / 17%
7+0% / 10%
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Below estimate83% / 29%
Within ±2%17% / 62%
Above estimate0% / 9%
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Lot #1CPV 85Published estimate£2.0m
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1 bid33%
2–340%
4–617%
7+10%
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| The Friendly TrustEarlier contract | Financial Independence Support Services for Vulnerable Adultsstarted Jun 2025 | — | £825k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
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57% title match.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
57% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (57% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Financial Independence Support Services for Vulnerable Adults — held by The Friendly Trust; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 22 May 2026, 12:04 BST
- Last source update
- 22 May 2026, 12:04 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047754- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published157 days ago22 May 2026, 12:04 BST
- Market engagement143 days ago4 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
This information request is purely for the Council to understand the market position, and we welcome expressions of interest by 12-noon Friday 5th June 2026
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 157 days31 Mar 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 157 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 May 2026, 12:04 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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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