Tameside Live Well Community Navigation Service - Soft Market Testing

Official notice

Authority: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85)Community & Cultural Services (98) Delivery: North West (UKD3)

Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender

Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice

Contract term 3 yrsends 28 Feb 2029 · starts 2 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

2.1 Community navigation, also known as social prescribing, is an approach that uses 'link workers' or 'community navigators' to connect people to the wider community and its offer of activities, groups and services, to best meet their practical, social and emotional needs. Tameside Live Well Community Navigation Service is a new community-sited and community-delivered service to support the health and wellbeing of local residents. Funded by Tameside Council, its delivery, recruitment, staff training, and allocation and investment of community funds would be managed by an organisation working in and with a good knowledge of the community. Further information go to www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ REF: DN789876

CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Planned 3 yrsSMEVCSE

Contract period: 2 Mar 2026 – 28 Feb 2029 (3 yrs)

Delivery: North WestEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

85000000 Health and social work services 98000000 Other community, social and personal services

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: Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime: Standard
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 9 Sept 2025, 13:34 BST
Last source update: 9 Sept 2025, 13:34 BST
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-055016
Latest notice: Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV): Health and social work servicesOther community, social and personal services
Delivery area: North West (UKD3)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0596b1 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice

Submission deadline: —

Timeline

9 Sept 2025 → 2 Mar 2026 · 3 dates

Planning notice published
9 Sept 2025, 13:34 BST
Market engagement
23 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
For further information go to www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ REF: DN789876
Contract starts243 days ago
2 Mar 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

Preliminary market engagement notice published
9 Sept 2025, 13:34 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

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PVWB-2493-LWTQ Tameside One, Ashton under Lyne, North West, OL6 0GSContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

Preliminary market engagement notice planningPreliminary market engagement noticeUK2Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender9 Sept 2025, 13:34 BST