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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 7 hours ago Contract notice

Connect to Work Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) Programme

Open United Kingdom Business services

Buyer Caerphilly County Borough Council

26 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€1.2M
€1,221,671 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 26 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

26 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 1,768 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 24 days (median of its last 22 calls for tender). It extended the deadline on 1 of the 12 calls we followed from publication (8%).

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Summary

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Caerphilly County Borough Council invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to deliver the Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) model under the UK Government's Department for Work and Pensions Connect to Work programme. Connect to Work is a voluntary supported employment programme delivered across England and Wales, supporting disabled people, people with health conditions and those facing complex barriers who are outside the labour market. Participants must be of working age and eligible. The programme uses the evidence based 'place, train and maintain' supported employment model, with SEQF designed for individuals facing disabilities, long term health conditions and social, emotional or environmental barriers. Tenderers must respond per the procurement documentation and the Invitation to Tender pack.

Description

Caerphilly County Borough Council is inviting applications from suitably qualified and experienced Organisation's to deliver the Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) model as part of the UK Government’s DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) Connect to Work programme. Connect to Work is a voluntary supported employment programme delivered across England and Wales, designed to support disabled people, individuals with health conditions, and people facing complex barriers who are currently outside the labour market and experiencing ‘Hidden Unemployment’, to find and sustain meaningful employment. The programme forms a key component of the Government’s Get Britain Working Strategy, targeting economic inactivity by offering tailored, intensive, and high quality employment support at the right time for the right participants. Participants of the programme must be working age, eligible, and suitable for the provision. Connect to Work delivers the evidence based “place, train, and maintain” Supported Employment model. The Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) is designed to support individuals facing complex barriers, disabilities, long term health conditions, social, emotional, or environmental barriers. Tenderers will be required to submit responses in accordance with the requirements set out within the procurement documentation. Submissions will be evaluated against the published criteria. Full details can be found in the Invitiation to Tender (ITT) Pack

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  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €1.2M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Business services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    26 days left, 19 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €7,610 and €171,765.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 42 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 7 hours ago

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 1,932 awards for Business services in United Kingdom.

This notice
€1.2M
Median award
€51,182
Middle half of past awards
€7,610 to €171,765

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Caerphilly County Borough Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
42
awards
10

Who wins its contracts

of its calls state an estimated value
95%

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Business services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Venesky Brown Ltd 76 €16.9M Oct 2026
Promar International Ltd 48 €277,984 Sep 2026
Lorien Resourcing Ltd 24 €6.4M Aug 2026
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd 24 €4.7M Oct 2026
Harvey Nash Limited 24 €3.9M Sep 2026

Based on 2100 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

9 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 68% of the open notices in Business services across Europe.

open now in Business services
7,427
median open notice
€361,451

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Business services

different companies won awards here
942
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
7%
buyers awarded contracts here
431

Based on 2,090 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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