Official UK procurement notice
PME - Peer Mentoring Services
Authority: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London (Local council)
The Peer Mentoring Programme provides voluntary, non-clinical support to help adults with substance dependency overcome barriers, achieve greater personal stability and progress towards employment, training or other work-related activity, while engaging with appropriate recovery and wider support services. People with substance dependency often face multiple and complex disadvantages, including poor physical and mental health, unemployment, housing insecurity and disengagement from statutory services.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Peer Mentoring Programme provides voluntary, non-clinical support to help adults with substance dependency overcome barriers, achieve greater personal stability and progress towards employment, training or other work-related activity, while engaging with appropriate recovery and wider support services.
People with substance dependency often face multiple and complex disadvantages, including poor physical and mental health, unemployment, housing insecurity and disengagement from statutory services. Without tailored, trusted support, these barriers can make it difficult to access treatment, sustain recovery and make progress.
Through this grant, Central London Forward (CLF), as the Accountable Body, is funded to deliver peer mentoring in areas with the highest levels of substance misuse-related need. This involves embedding lived-experience support within local systems and strengthening joint working with treatment providers, employment services and voluntary and community sector organisations.
The Peer Mentoring Grant supports the Government’s priority to improve outcomes for people affected by drug and alcohol misuse by strengthening the links between treatment, personal stability and progression towards work.
Sustained recovery is closely linked to trusted relationships, reduced stigma and practical support that helps individuals rebuild confidence and stability. Peer mentoring draws on lived experience to build trust, improve engagement with services and support people to take positive steps towards employment, education and wider participation in society.
The grant enables local areas to embed peer mentoring within a whole-system, place-based approach to recovery, supporting better health outcomes and reducing longer-term harm.
The overarching objective of the Peer Mentoring Grant is to improve outcomes for adults with drug and alcohol dependency by embedding lived-experience peer mentoring within local systems.
Funded activity is expected to:
- Build trust and support participants to disclose their drug and alcohol dependency, related barriers and support needs safely and voluntarily to peer mentors and relevant services;
- Improve participants’ understanding of, and engagement with, appropriate treatment, recovery and wider support services;
- Improve participants’ readiness to progress towards employment, training or other positive activity by building confidence, motivation and employability skills; and
- Strengthen collaboration between local partners already supporting people with substance dependency across our boroughs.
CPV: Guidance services · Vocational rehabilitation services · Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
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Lot #1CPV 8531Published estimate£1.9m
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
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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
- 4 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104541- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b299Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published1h ago4 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 14 days18 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Suppliers capable of delivering the scope of services are invited to participate in the preliminary market engagement and respond to a questionnaire published on the City of London e-tendering portal.
Suppliers must register on the Jaggaer portal free of charge by clicking on the link below:
cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗
Once registered, they can access the questionnaire by clicking the link below.
pqq_123 - PME - Peer Mentoring Services
The opportunity to participate in the preliminary market engagement will close at 12:00 noon on 18 November.
- Tender notice expectedin 41 days15 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 147 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
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- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender