Notice Information
Notice Title
Warrington Advocacy Hub
Notice Description
Warrington Borough Council wishes to procure integrated advocacy services provided through a single supplier offering an Advocacy Hub. The supplier will deliver a comprehensive advocacy service for adults in Warrington 50 weeks a year, 5 days a week (Monday- Friday) excluding Bank Holidays and Weekends. The Service will comprise: - Care Act Advocacy - Independent Mental Health Advocacy - Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy - Paid Relevant Persons Representative - Parent Advocacy - Project work
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: The contract will initially be for a period of 48 months with option to extend by 3 further periods of 24 months
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0597f2
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055550-2025
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- 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
85300000 - Social work and related services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £3,090,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £3,090,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Sep 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 9 Oct 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 31 May 2026 - 31 May 2030 4-5 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
- WARRINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- centralprocurement@warrington.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- WARRINGTON
- Postcode
- WA1 1UH
- Post Town
- Warrington
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD6 Cheshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD61 Warrington
- Delivery Location
- TLD61 Warrington
-
- Local Authority
- Warrington
- Electoral Ward
- Bewsey and Whitecross
- Westminster Constituency
- Warrington South
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055550-2025
10th September 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
www.the-chest.org.uk
Tender documents can be obtained via www.the-chest.org.uk using reference DN789135
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