Notice Information
Notice Title
Provision of Wellbeing Assistance Programme and Support Services for Individuals Involved in Fitness to Practise and Hearings Processes
Notice Description
The purpose of this tender is to appoint a supplier to provide a comprehensive advice, support, signposting, and counselling service for individuals involved in Social Care Wales' fitness to practise and hearings processes. This includes registered workers under investigation, their families, applicants or registered persons referred to case conferences or hearings, complainants, witnesses, whistle-blowers, and the independent panel members who sit on our fitness to practise panel hearings. The service aims to safeguard wellbeing and offer appropriate support throughout these challenging and sensitive procedures. Please see ITT for full requirements.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: The contract will run initially from 1 May 2026 until 30 April 2028 with a possibility of being extended for a further 24 months, up to a total period of 4 years.
Planning Information
We will be holding a preliminary market engagement sessions via MS Teams on: 14:00, Monday 1 December 2025 The sessions will be hosted by project lead/s Elin Harris and Lowri Jones, and a member of the Procurement team. The sessions will begin with a presentation outlining the requirements, following which an opportunity for questions and answers will follow. The sessions will be recorded and uploaded against this notice on Sell2Wales. If you are interested in joining a preliminary market engagement session, please email procurement@socialcare.wales advising the tender title who will be joining. Following the sessions the Sell2Wales question and answer portal will be live for a following 4 working days up until 5 December 2025.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05e2cd
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007598-2026
- 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
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
72253000 - Helpdesk and support services
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £166,667 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £166,667 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 28 Jan 20263 weeks ago
- Submission Deadline
- 25 Feb 20262 days to go
- Future Notice Date
- 4 Feb 2026Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 30 Apr 2026 - 30 Apr 2028 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- 2030-01-28
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SOCIAL CARE WALES
- Contact Name
- Procurement Team
- Contact Email
- procurement@socialcare.wales
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CARDIFF
- Postcode
- CF10 1EW
- Post Town
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL5 South East Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
- Delivery Location
- TLL Wales
-
- Local Authority
- Cardiff
- Electoral Ward
- Cathays
- Westminster Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007598-2026
28th January 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/074548-2025
17th November 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Assets/NoticeBuilder_FileDownload.aspx?id=359232
ITT & Specification - English -
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Assets/NoticeBuilder_FileDownload.aspx?id=359234
ITT & Specification - Welsh
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