Notice Information
Notice Title
Children's Centre Outreach
Notice Description
Westminster City Council (WCC) will shortly be running a competitive tendering exercise to award a new contract for Outreach services to support family hubs and children's centres. Outreach is an essential part of the service design delivered from the Council's three Children's Centre Hubs. It's purpose is to target and reach the most vulnerable families who without it are less likely to engage, and deliver a single integrated Early Help offer in WCC. Outreach plays a pivotal role in working alongside the Early Help team in delivering their priorities, supporting early intervention and prevention, and heading-off costlier (human and financial) escalations; it is essential to the overall effectiveness of WCC Children's Centres, Family Hubs, and multi-agency partnership working in the field of Early Help. The provider will be expected to deliver the following services: a high-quality outreach service to families. a befriending volunteer support Service for families with children aged up to 5 years an Early Help volunteering service for families with children aged 0-15
Planning Information
If you are a provider of Outreach services, we want to hear from you on how we can shape the contract and its procurement – before we commence the competition - so that when awarded, the new contract will deliver and demonstrate Best Value within the available budget. We see potential providers as key stakeholders. Your views and advice are important to us. We want to know what you think. All of the answers you give will be treated as strictly commercially confidential. They will be used solely for the purposes of shaping and informing our contract and the strategy for its procurement, with the aim of ensuring that the contract works for everyone: service users, budget holders, and providers. If you are interested in completing the Market Engagement Questionnaire, please express your interest via Jaggaer, the Councils tendering portal. Once you have expressed your interest, you will be able to download the questionnaire and current specification. If you are not already registered on Jaggaer please register on this link https://wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com Once you have registered, you will be able to express your interest and view all relating documents on this link https://wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/0050873201987FBA1953
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0582b2
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009991-2026
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK4 - Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85140000 - Miscellaneous health services
85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people
85323000 - Community health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £900,000 £500K-£1M
- Lots Value
- £1,449,600 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 4 Feb 20262 weeks ago
- Submission Deadline
- 6 Mar 20262 weeks to go
- Future Notice Date
- 19 Sep 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 30 Jun 2026 - 30 Jun 2028 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- procurementteammailbox@westminster.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1E 6QP
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- TLI32 Westminster
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009991-2026
4th February 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009986-2026
4th February 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046615-2025
6th August 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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