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This notice is intended to alert providers to an opportunity to deliver the Connect to Work programme for Greater Essex (Southend ,Thurrock and Essex) through its Accountable Body - Essex County Council (ECC). The e-tendering system used by ECC is ProContract. Potential applicants for Connect to Work are encouraged to register on ProContract as soon as possible. It is free to register and use the system. You will need to create an account on ProContract to access and bid for public sector opportunities issued by ECC, including this Connect to Work opportunity. Visit https://procontract.due-north.com/Register to register an account. Connect to Work The recently launched "Get Britain Working" White Paper outlines Government's strategy to invest £240m 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. 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. In Greater Essex, Connect to [...]

Essex County Council is commissioning a service to support individuals aged 16 to 26 years old who have experienced severe mental illness to achieve their vocational goals and aspirations. This service is in response to the disruption young adults experienced during and following Covid and the high levels of mental health illness now being experienced by young adults which is impacting on their education and employment opportunities This is a newly commissioned service, based on the data, needs and voice of people that use services who have told us that they do not get the support around their vocational aspirations when they need it due to their mental illness. The requirements for this service are not fully prescriptive. Essex County Council would expect the successful provider to work with commissioners and crucially people with lived experience and their carers to inform the design and delivery using a robust approach to co-producing the service. Lived experience and co-production should be at the heart of shaping the service and Essex County Council fully expects the service to evolve over the life of the contract to reflect this. The purpose of the service is to support young adults to: • Be enabled to develop the life skills necessary to access education, training or paid employment. • Build resilience and aspirations and return to school, college and/or begin training • Build confidence, self-esteem and motivation • Develop plans for how to achieve their career plans and aspirations • Build life skills such as time management, financial/budget management, organisation and team work • Become engagement ready and access other resources in the community [...]

As part of the Urban Tree Challenge Fund and Local Authority Treescape fund requirements, Essex County Council is looking to procure a contractor to water and Maintain 2151 urban standard trees across the county in 2025, 1894 in summer 2026 and 578 in summer 2027. [...]

Essex County Council (the Council) currently supports the Colchester Park and Ride Service, as part of our aims to provide a 'last mile' sustainable journey, to reduce congestion in the city centre and mitigate the resulting emissions. May/June 2025: The Council are considering potential operating models, and so request that interested parties respond to the Market Research document issued by 17:00 on 13th June 2025. [...]

This notice is intended to alert providers to an opportunity to deliver the Connect to Work programme for Greater Essex (Southend ,Thurrock and Essex) through its Accountable Body - Essex County Council (ECC). The e-tendering system used by ECC is ProContract. Potential applicants for Connect to Work are encouraged to register on ProContract as soon as possible. It is free to register and use the system. You will need to create an account on ProContract to access and bid for public sector opportunities issued by ECC, including this Connect to Work opportunity. Visit https://procontract.due-north.com/Register to register an account. Connect to Work The recently launched "Get Britain Working" White Paper outlines Government's strategy to invest £240m 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. 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. In Greater Essex, Connect to [...]

Chelmsford City Council would like to issue a tender proposal to secure merchant acquirer services. The supplier is required to provide Merchant Card Acquiring services, to facilitate the receipt, transfer and accounting of incoming domestic and foreign payment streams where current UK sanctions permit, from the payer, to Chelmsford City Council and Chelmsford City Council Payment Gateways to facilitate Cardholder present and Cardholder not present transactions. The supplier will also need to provide chip and pin terminals where required. Objectives oTo secure value for money services. oTo provide cost savings. REQUIREMENT 1. Chelmsford City Council wish to process transactions from the following cards: MasterCard (Credit & Debit), Visa (Credit & Debit), Electron, Maestro and Solo. If any additional card issuers enter the market place, the Council will discuss their specific requirements in that regard as and when necessary. The Council does not accept American Express cards or Diners Cards. The successful bidder will have to be able to operate with the following gateways: Opayo, Elavon, Worldpay and Barclaycard EPDQ. 2. The supplier must assign individual merchant numbers to each outlet specified by the council, this is currently a total of 29 merchants. oThe supplier must be able to provide new merchant numbers as and when required by the council 3. as part of the contract the supplier must be able to supply terminals to the various outlets across the council, the council currently uses 19 terminals. If a terminal is no longer required by a Council during the course of the contract, the Council must be able to return the [...]

The successful Supplier will be required to provide Ground Maintenance services for The Chelmsford Learning Trust. The successful Supplier will be required to provide Ground Maintenance services for The Chelmsford Learning Partnership. at: Roding Valley High School, Loughton, IG10 3JA The Boswells School, Chelmsford, Essex Beaulieu Park School, Secondary and Primary, Armistice Way, Chelmsford William de Ferres High School, South Woodham Ferres, Essex Lakelands Primary School, Colchester, Essex Perryfields Junior and Infant School, Chelmsford, Essex Barnes Farm Junior and Infant School, Chelmsford, Essex The Tyrells School, Chelmsford, Essex Rettendon Primary School, Rettendon Common, Chelmsford, Essex Runwell Community Primary School, Wickford, Essex Woodville Primary School, South Woodham Ferres, Essex Beaulieu Park School Primary, Remembrance Avenue, Chelmsford, Essex Contract value = £850,000.00 The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is seeking the provision of a comprehensive Grounds and Gardens Maintenance Service that is responsive to seasonal weather and growing conditions that shall achieve the following key objectives: •Development and maintenance of an aesthetically pleasing and varied landscape that is functional and complementary to the Sites and environment throughout the year •Maintenance of the Site Grounds in a safe manner and accessible to staff, student, visitors, and members of the public, including any existing rights of way •Maintenance of the grounds and gardens to facilitate the smooth running of all educational operations and ensuring access to the Facility at all times •Maintain and develop the grounds and gardens in a manner that promotes a positive image of the Chelmsford Learning Partnership to all authorised users of the Site •Provide and maintain safe, logical, and clear circulation routes across the [...]

This is a pipeline notice to inform the market of Essex County Council's intention to procure a number of mobile plant machines (predominantly materials handlers and loading shovels) for use at the 21 Recycling Centres for Household Waste (RCHW) and 5 Waste Transfer Stations (WTS). Please note that this notice is not an invitation to tender and the dates indicated in this notice are an estimation, detailed information will be provided in later notices. [...]

Library stock for Essex County Council libraries. [...]

In 2019, Essex County Council (ECC) commissioned the Floating Support Service, which provides a broad range of short and medium- term interventions to prevent homelessness and address other housing related needs. The service is currently delivered by the Peabody Trust (formerly Peabody South-East) (the Incumbent). Operating a peripatetic model, the service delivers flexible, outreach support across the County; providing targeted, cost-effective interventions to vulnerable adults and their families, who are at imminent risk of losing their accommodation, or whom may be experiencing a period of crisis. The service is aimed at people across a range of housing tenure, including those accommodated in social housing, owner-occupiers, private rented accommodation, as well as providing support to those who are homeless and require support with applying for accommodation. [...]