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title: "Connect to Work"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0556e0"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "KINGSTON UPON HULL CITY COUNCIL"
published: "2025-08-01"
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# Connect to Work

Buyer: KINGSTON UPON HULL CITY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0556e0

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## Summary

Kingston Upon Hull City Council, in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council, is initiating the "Connect to Work" procurement process, focusing on the health and social work services industry category. The procurement is currently in the planning stage, with a planned release of the Invitation to Tender in late August 2025 on the YORtender system, and will remain open for 30 days. The programme, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, aims to support up to 3,400 residents in the Hull and East Riding areas. Delivery is anticipated to begin in November 2025 and run for five years, offering support to disabled individuals and those with complex employment barriers, encouraging collaboration between health and employment services.

This tender offers significant opportunities for businesses, particularly SMEs and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs), with experience in service framework agreements, especially those aligned with the Integrated Placement Support and Supported Employment Quality Framework model. Companies with expertise in vocational profiling and employer engagement, aiming to enhance workforce participation and sustain employment, will find this tender advantageous. By participating, businesses can contribute to the government’s goal of increasing employment rates and fostering an inclusive economy, thereby expanding their portfolio and impact within the community.

## Notice

The recently launched "Get Britain Working" White Paper outlines Government's strategy to invest PS240m to support the ambition of a national 80% employment rate and help improve workplace health and keep people in work, including trials of combined public services for those out of work due to ill health. Connect to Work is the first major element of the Get Britain Working Strategy. By encouraging join-up between health systems and employment support, Connect to Work will support those, primarily, currently outside the workforce and facing greater labour market disadvantages, to stay in work and get back into work. In turn, supporting the Government's ambition for a more inclusive economy, supporting local people to realise their potential and supporting local and national growth. In England and Wales, Connect to Work funding will support around 100,000 disabled people with health conditions and those with complex barriers to get into employment and on in work. Connect to Work is a new employment programme, funded by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). The programme will primarily support people who are disabled and economically inactive. The programme will be based on the Integrated Placement Support (IPS) and Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) model of supported employment. It will focus on vocational profiling, early engagement with employers and supporting people into work quickly. Ongoing support is then provided to the participant and their employer to help sustain them in work. The programme also involves flexibility to support adults at risk of unemployment due to complex needs to be supported to sustain and improve their employment. As the Accountable Body, Hull City Council is responsible for the commissioning, implementation and management of Connect to Work but will be working in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council on this exciting programme which will support up to 3400 residents from the Hull and East Riding Area. The programme is expected to run for 5 years. An Invitation to Tender for Connect to Work Hull East Yorkshire programme will be launched in Late August and will be live for 30 days on the YORtender tendering system. It is anticipated that delivery will start in late 2025.

### Planning Information

A digital market briefing event is taking place on two separate dates 9th and 11th July for Hull and ERYC respectively.
The link below will allow suppliers to register accordingly:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connect-to-work-tickets-1438407338069
Attendance for the event is not mandatory and will not exclude bidders from responding to the opportunity when it is published
The procurement exercise is due to be released in early August 2025.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/045011-2025 |
| Notice type | UK1 - Pipeline Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 1 Aug 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 1 Sep 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Nov 2025 - 1 Nov 2030 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | KINGSTON UPON HULL CITY COUNCIL |
| Additional buyers | EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE COUNCIL |
| Locality | HULL |
| Post town | Hull |
| Postcode | HU1 1AA |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber |
| ITL 2 | TLE1 East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire |
| ITL 3 | TLE12 East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Local authority | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Electoral ward | St Mary's |
| Westminster constituency | Beverley and Holderness |
| Delivery location | TLE11 Kingston upon Hull, City of, TLE12 East Riding of Yorkshire |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85000000 - Health and social work services

## Release History

- 1 Aug 2025 at 07:41 - Planning - UK1 - Pipeline Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/045011-2025
- 1 Jul 2025 at 14:14 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036480-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/045011-2025
  1st August 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036480-2025
  1st July 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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