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title: "Youth Voice and NEET Strategy Development"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06ef67"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "North East Combined Authority"
published: "2026-09-09"
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# Youth Voice and NEET Strategy Development

Buyer: North East Combined Authority  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06ef67

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## Summary

North East Combined Authority commissioned a regional youth voice and employment research service. The work is intended to support system change by ensuring young people’s lived experience informs regional policy, employment practices, service improvement and decision-making. Its scope includes work across employment, skills and child poverty, together with development of a strategy for young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). It also includes extending the Youth Voice Census and associated activities. This is a services contract covering research consultancy and social research. Delivery is across North East England, for the Combined Authority as the public-sector buyer. The requirement would suit organisations experienced in youth participation, social research, employment and skills policy, and translating evidence from young people into practical regional strategy.

The procurement is complete and has been awarded through a below-threshold direct award without competition. One lot was awarded to YOUTH EMPLOYMENT UK C.I.C. for £60,000 including VAT. The award covers the full youth voice, research, census and NEET strategy requirement. The contract was signed on 8 September 2026 and runs from 9 September 2026 to 31 March 2027. The contract is active. The recorded award is below the relevant threshold, and the procurement used a single-supplier route rather than an open competitive process. Evaluation therefore did not involve competing bids or published award weightings. The selected supplier is a large voluntary, community or social enterprise, indicating that the buyer appointed an established specialist provider for this defined programme of research and strategy work.

For a supplier considering comparable work in future, this procurement shows demand for an integrated youth engagement and policy evidence offer rather than a narrow research exercise. A credible competitor would need to involve young people directly, capture and interpret lived experience, run or extend a structured youth voice census, and turn findings into recommendations for employment, skills, child poverty and service improvement. Experience developing strategies for young people not in education, employment or training would be relevant, as would the ability to work across a regional public-sector system. Organisations with strong youth-sector relationships, social research capability and a track record of influencing policy through clear evidence would be well placed when this requirement next reaches the market.

## Notice

This project will support system change by ensuring young people's lived experience informs regional policy, employment practices, service improvement and decision making across employment, skills and child poverty and includes provision for extension of the Youth Voice Census and associated activities such as the development of a NEET strategy.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/085455-2026 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - without competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 9 Sep 2026 - 31 Mar 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £60,000 |
| Contracts value | £60,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | North East Combined Authority |
| Locality | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE |
| Postcode area | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Postcode | NE4 5BZ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLC North East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear |
| ITL 3 | TLC43 Tyneside |
| Local authority | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Electoral ward | Arthur's Hill |
| Westminster constituency | Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | YOUTH EMPLOYMENT UK C.I.C. |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 73210000 - Research consultancy services
- 79315000 - Social research services

## Release History

- 9 Sep 2026 at 14:47 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/085455-2026
- 1 Sep 2026 at 12:05 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/082587-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/085455-2026
  9th September 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/082587-2026
  1st September 2026 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

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

## Provenance

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