Official UK procurement notice
WSCC Innovative Transitions Programme: Children to Adult Social Care
Authority: West Sussex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOfsted & CQC registered organisations - The Council wants to speak to Providers interested in working with Young People supported by Children's Social Care who will be transitioning to Adult Social Care.
West Sussex County Council are holding a market engagement event for providers interested in working innovatively to support Children and Young People (primarily between age 15 and 20) with social care and support needs.
The Council is seeking to work with providers who are interested in helping to support it's ambitious aims of supporting children and young people transition between Children’s and Adults services. This is by nurturing independence while proactively applying reduction strategies to reduce service dependency, whilst offering consistent relational safety enabling every young person to take meaningful steps toward their future with dignity, aspiration, independence and hope.
This online session is being held on the 23rd of June 2026 from 14:30 – 16:00. The session will look to engage with potential providers who are interested in working with the Council and are either already dual registered with both Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) or those who would be willing to do so.
The session will focus on the Council's aims and help us to establish next steps in a potential opportunity of joint working to pilot an approach.
To sign up for the session please email: [email protected]
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 8 Jun 2026, 13:48 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Jun 2026, 13:48 BST
- Authority reference
C24794- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053799- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06afc6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jun 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published140 days ago8 Jun 2026, 13:48 BST
- Market engagement125 days ago23 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
West Sussex County Council are holding a market engagement event for providers interested in working innovatively to support Children and Young People (primarily between age 15 and 20) with social care and support needs.
This online session is being held on the 23rd of June 2026 from 14:30 – 16:00.
To sign up for the session please email: [email protected]
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 66 days31 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 66 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Jun 2026, 13:48 BSTUK2
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
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