UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

'PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PIPELINE NOTICE NOT - LIVE TENDER OPPORTUNITY - TENDER NOTICE TO FOLLOW'. Connect to Work is a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) funded programme of supported employment to be delivered over five years from April 2025 to financial year 2029/30. Its primary objective is to support people with health and disability related barriers into good quality, sustainable employment using tested models of support known as Individual Placement and Support (IPS) and the Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF). Southwark is projected to have the highest number of Connect to Work participants of all central London boroughs, with up to 700 starts per year when the programme is at full capacity. Over the five-year delivery period, over 2,000 people are expected to benefit from support. The council will take a blended approach to delivering Connect to Work in Southwark with approximately 30% of total volumes to be delivered in-house and 70% procured through external organisations. Effective integration with local employment support services delivered through the Southwark Works programme and with local health, wellbeing and social care providers will be essential to the success of this programme. A Prior Information Notice (PIN) 2025/S 000-005585 was issued on 18 February 2025 and a Preliminary Market Engagement Event was held online on 27 February 2025. The Connect to Work programme is for four years and six months commencing on 1 October 2025, for a total value of £6,490,546 including VAT. Contracts will be offered in 3 lots. The details of each lot and the maximum contract values for each are as follows: Lot 1: Working with the Southwark Resource Centre and the range of services delivered from the centre including the Disability Hub, the Wellbeing Hub, support for carers and support for people with SEND. Also working with: The Nest mental health support for young people. Services providing SEND support to younger people including council teams. Lot 1 total estimate value including VAT: £4,039,956 Lot 2: Emphasis on community outreach and engagement including VCS, faith groups, housing estates, Family Hubs and Children's Centres etc. and networks not covered in lot 1 or by the council's in-house service. Lot 2 total estimate value including VAT: £1,933,794 Lot 3: Working across all referral routes and in partnership with providers across the programme to provide support for people already in-work who are at risk of dropping out of work due to their health condition, disability or other disadvantage, or wish to move to new employment. Lot 3 total estimate value including VAT: £516,796

Southwark Council intends to undertake a procurement exercise to implement a catering services framework for nursery, primary and secondary schools within the London Borough of Southwark. The aims of the framework include: •Continued improvement of nutritional quality and consistency of school meals across Southwark •Tackling disadvantage and reducing inequalities •Enhancing social value through job creation for local people, payment of London Living Wage (LLW) and supporting the local economy •Realising the opportunities for meeting the Council’s social value, food security, environmental sustainability and climate emergency agenda. Within Southwark, there are currently 4 nursery schools, 74 primary schools (including 3 special schools) and 25 secondary schools (including 5 special schools): •The value of the school meals market in Southwark is estimated at around £8.3m (primary) and £5.3m (secondary) annually •Currently, most school outsourced contracts are for a single school, rather than a group, each with different contract terms •Most contracts are currently two to three years in duration, not all schools will require a contract at the same time The maximum framework term will be 4 years, this includes the initial contract term and the option to extend. Estimated potential sales value of the framework is £4m over the 4 years. Southwark Council will be conducting this process via Jaggaer. Suppliers will need to ensure that they have up to date logins via https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html. The Jaggaer project reference is project_9559. Please note that the DfE's Get help buying for schools’ service is assisting Southwark Council with the publishing of the associated contract notices and procurement documentation. As a result, in the e-sourcing system Jaggaer this project will show via DfE's published opportunities.   Information on lots and award criteria will be available when the tender is published.

Southwark Council intends to undertake a procurement exercise to implement a catering services framework for nursery, primary and secondary schools within the London Borough of Southwark. The aims of the framework include: •Continued improvement of nutritional quality and consistency of school meals across Southwark •Tackling disadvantage and reducing inequalities •Enhancing social value through job creation for local people, payment of London Living Wage (LLW) and supporting the local economy •Realising the opportunities for meeting the Council’s social value, food security, environmental sustainability and climate emergency agenda. Within Southwark, there are currently 4 nursery schools, 74 primary schools (including 3 special schools) and 25 secondary schools (including 5 special schools): •The value of the school meals market in Southwark is estimated at around £8.3m (primary) and £5.3m (secondary) annually •Currently, most school outsourced contracts are for a single school, rather than a group, each with different contract terms •Most contracts are currently two to three years in duration, not all schools will require a contract at the same time The maximum framework term will be 4 years, this includes the initial contract term and the option to extend. Estimated potential sales value of the framework is £4m over the 4 years. Southwark Council will be conducting this process via Department for Education (DfE) Jaggaer etendering system. Suppliers will need to ensure that they have up to date logins via https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html. The Jaggaer project reference is project_9559. Supplier Information Session A Supplier Information Session will be held on Friday 24th January at 2pm. This will outline the framework tender process and provide some information on Jaggaer, the DfE’s ‘Get Help Buying for Schools’ procurement portal. Please register for this virtual event via the link below: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/suppliers-information-session-tickets-1143808585269?aff=oddtdtcreator Copies of the slides from this session will be included in the ITT documentation when issued via Jaggaer. DfE's Get help buying for schools’ service is assisting Southwark Council with the publishing of the associated contract notices and procurement documentation. As a result, the e-sourcing system Jaggaer will be used for this project and it will show via DfE's published opportunities.   Information on lots and award criteria will be available when the tender is published.