Official UK procurement notice
Work Ready Service for Young Adults with Mental Illness
Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEssex County Council is commissioning a service to support individuals aged 16 to 26 years old who have experienced severe mental illness to achieve their vocational goals and aspirations.
This service is in response to the disruption young adults experienced during and following Covid and the high levels of mental health illness now being experienced by young adults which is impacting on their education and employment opportunities
This is a newly commissioned service, based on the data, needs and voice of people that use services who have told us that they do not get the support around their vocational aspirations when they need it due to their mental illness.
The requirements for this service are not fully prescriptive.
Essex County Council would expect the successful provider to work with commissioners and crucially people with lived experience and their carers to inform the design and delivery using a robust approach to co-producing the service.
Lived experience and co-production should be at the heart of shaping the service and Essex County Council fully expects the service to evolve over the life of the contract to reflect this.
The purpose of the service is to support young adults to:
- Be enabled to develop the life skills necessary to access education, training or paid employment.
- Build resilience and aspirations and return to school, college and/or begin training
- Build confidence, self-esteem and motivation
- Develop plans for how to achieve their career plans and aspirations
- Build life skills such as time management, financial/budget management, organisation and team work
- Become engagement ready and access other resources in the community such as youth services
- In particular, the service is to provide opportunities for those individuals who may not have supportive families to guide them through finishing education and planning for work.
- The service will also contribute to the delivery of the outcomes set out in the Essex Mental Health Strategy.
CPV: Health services · Social work and related services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Bids received
- 11 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
- Market period
- 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs from 29 Sept 2025
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£627,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Service Delivery: 60%
- Commercial: 30%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Commercial
- Social Value
- Service Delivery
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Work Ready Service for Young Adults with Mental Illness” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 May 2025, 09:43 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Jun 2026, 13:55 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 22 Sept 2025
- Authority reference
DN777528- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-041375- Accelerated
- Light touch contract
- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051ca2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Admission period ends
- 18 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 10 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
22 May 2025 → 5 Jun 2026 · 10 dates- Planning notice published22 May 2025, 09:43 BST
- Next notice expected20 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
- Market engagementmet20 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
The Market Engagement Session was due to be held via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 3rd June at 12pm, unfortunately this has now been postposed due to unforeseen circumstances. It will be rescheduled within the next few weeks, however the exact date is unclear. Our team is hoping this will be no later than 20th June.
However, please contact [email protected] if you are interested in this opportunity or would like further information.
(Update note for transparency: the market engagement was held on 25th June 2025 at 11:30am.)
- Tender notice published18 Jul 2025, 15:17 BST
- Clarification questions by10 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown18 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by395 days ago22 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts389 days ago29 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST
- Assessment summaries sent326 days ago1 Dec 2025
- Latest notice published139 days ago5 Jun 2026, 13:55 BST
Notice history
18 events · 11 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 May 2025, 09:43 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 May 2025, 09:55 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 May 2025, 09:44 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 May 2025, 10:06 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Jun 2025, 20:17 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published18 Jul 2025, 13:40 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published18 Jul 2025, 15:17 BSTUK4
- Status changed to active18 Jul 2025, 15:17 BST
- Procurement method changed18 Jul 2025, 15:17 BST
- Deadline published: 12 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST18 Jul 2025, 15:17 BST
- Tender notice published5 Aug 2025, 16:51 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 17 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST5 Aug 2025, 16:51 BST+5 days · was 12 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Tender notice published13 Aug 2025, 13:36 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 18 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST13 Aug 2025, 13:36 BST+1 days · was 17 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Contract award notice published1 Dec 2025, 14:00 GMTUK6
- Status changed to complete1 Dec 2025, 14:00 GMT
- Contract signature expected19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published5 Jun 2026, 13:55 BSTUK7
Published amendments (7)
Clarification of the engagement date has been added.
Confirmation of dates
Confirmation of dates
The original session has been postponed. The new exact date is not clear due to unforeseen circumstances, however I have provided a timescale for rescheduling and a point of contact for further information.
For transparency: an unexpected delay took place, the market engagement session was held on 25th June 2025 at 11:30am. I am amending this notice to provide this information.
Routine re-releases (11)
- 2025-08: 1 release · 5 Aug 2025
- 2025-07: 2 releases · 18 Jul 2025, 18 Jul 2025
- 2025-06: 1 release · 2 Jun 2025
- 2025-05: 4 releases · 22 May 2025, 23 May 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get Skills Employment & Training Ltd1 Jan 2026 – 1 Jan 2029 · up to 1 Jan 2031Extensions: Optional extension | £1,045,000 | 1 Dec 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Work Ready Service for Young Adults with Mental Illness · Get Skills Employment & Training Ltd
- Signed
- 1 Jan 2026
- Value
- £1,045,000
- Period
- 1 Jan 2026 – 1 Jan 2029 · up to 1 Jan 2031 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- 2 years optional extension.
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11final-stage tenders · 13 at stage one | 8 | 5 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Suppliers admitted to the dynamic market
1 commercial party on the notice- GET SKILLS EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING LTDAdmitted to the market
Official documents & specifications (11)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
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- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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