Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department for Work and Pensions · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Social Finance LTD SME
- Value
- £4,810,250
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure
- Sector
- Education & training · Training programme services (CPV 80521000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 068844-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Jul 2026
- Published21 Jul 2026Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
The WorkWell programme is a locally led, integrated programme designed to assist working-age people with disabilities or health conditions to stay in, return to, or move into employment. Delivered through the Integrated Care Boards (“ICBs”), it serves as a single gateway to existing local work, health, and skills provision.<br/>Following a grant competition, 15 ICBs were awarded grant funding to pilot the WorkWell Model over an 18-month period between October 2024 and March 2026. The learning from these existing pilot areas has been used to support the design of the next phase of the programme.<br/>WorkWell is, by design a locally developed partnership and service which requires a strategic function to provide oversight of the programmes activity and to build a cohesive picture of what works. The National Support Offer (“NSO”) is an important aspect to the success of The WorkWell Programme.<br/>The objectives of the WorkWell programme are supported by the delivery of a National Suppor…
About the supplier
Social Finance LTD: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06402143).