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Reading Borough Council

Closing the Gap Cost of Living Support Service

Business ServicesCPV 85300000
Value£696,000
Awarded27 Jul 2025
Published7 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide

£696,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
CITIZENS ADVICE READING
Awarded value£696k
Award date27 Jul 2025

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
pchub@reading.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£696ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

RBC are completing a ITT exercise for the provision of Closing the Gap Cost of Living Support Service - Reducing the impacts of poverty and deprivation by providing practical tools, advice and assistance to communities and individuals.

Full details of the requirement can be found in the Specification in Annexe 1 which outlines the requirements for each funding.

The Bid documents contain proposals for the works.

Services under the Closing the Gap programme are commissioned in line with RBC’s Council Strategy, Health and Wellbeing Strategy, Poverty Needs Analysis and the Berkshire Joint Strategic Needs Analysis, and focus on community-based, preventative work.

These services are commissioned to reduce differences around healthy life expectancy, reduce health inequalities and contribute to long-term change.

Suppliers that would like to take part in this process are invited to "Express Interest" upon which they will be given access to the full documentation delivered through this portal.

Documents can be accessed from the "My Tenders" area of this website by selecting the "View Details" button for the project.

Expressions of interest will only be accepted until 25/05/2025.

Any questions relating to this opportunity should be made via the correspondence link on this portal.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

RBC are completing a ITT exercise

RBC are completing a ITT exercise for the provision of Closing the Gap Cost of Living Support Service.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
046852-2025
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