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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 1 week ago Contract notice

NEET Prevention & Reduction Service

Open United Kingdom Education & training

Buyer Manchester City Council

18 days left

Key facts

Closes
11:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€3.6M
€3,585,297 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 26 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

25 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 1,859 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 26 days (median of its last 12 calls for tender).

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

The Local Authority is procuring an integrated NEET Prevention and Reduction Service to meet its statutory duties for participation, tracking and support for young people aged 16 and 17. The service uses a preventative, intelligence-led model to reduce the number of young people Not in Education, Employment or Training and to reduce Unknown destinations. Support covers young people aged 13 to 16 at risk of becoming NEET, those aged 16 and 17 who are NEET or at risk of disengagement, young people up to age 25 with an Education, Health and Care Plan, Manchester Care Leavers and other identified vulnerable cohorts. It provides holistic support plus appropriate referral and signposting to specialist services so young people re-engage in education, employment or training.

Description

The service is an integrated NEET Prevention and Reduction Service to support the Local Authority in meeting its statutory duties for participation, tracking and support for young people aged 16 and 17. The service will deliver a preventative, intelligence-led model that reduces the number of young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) and reduces Unknown destinations. The service is to support young people aged 13-16 who are at risk of becoming NEET; young people aged 16 and 17 who are NEET or at risk of disengagement; young people up to age 25 with an Education, Health and Care Plan; Manchester Care Leavers; and other identified vulnerable cohorts to re-engage in education, employment and training through the provision of holistic support, and appropriate referral and signposting to specialist services.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  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 €3.6M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Education & training.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    18 days left, 13 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 €25,913 and €116,632.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 44 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.

Official source

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) 1 week ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 413 awards for Education & training in United Kingdom.

This notice
€3.6M
Median award
€52,506
Middle half of past awards
€25,913 to €116,632

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.

Manchester City Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
44
awards
18

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
14
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
21%
of its calls state an estimated value
92%

Based on 14 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.

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, Education & training - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Shannon Trust 15 €1.6M Sep 2026
TWA Certifications Ltd 10 €333,401 Sep 2026
QA LIMITED 8 €2.1M Oct 2026
Kinetic Youth Ltd 8 €775,540 Sep 2026
Cambridge Spark Ltd 7 €484,401 Sep 2026

Based on 510 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

5 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 89% of the open notices in Education & training across Europe.

open now in Education & training
1,142
median open notice
€205,955

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Education & training

different companies won awards here
342
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
7%
buyers awarded contracts here
134

Based on 478 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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