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The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London

Connect to Work Programme - Delivery Partner

Business ServicesCPV 79611000
Value£30.0m
Awarded21 Mar 2025
Published27 Aug 2025
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£30.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£32.4m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is launching Connect to Work programme (formerly known as Universal Support), an employment programme aimed at assisting disabled individuals and unemployed people with complex needs in securing employment.

Central London Forward (CLF), hosted by the City of London Corporation, has been appointed as the accountable body for the Connect to Work programme in central London.

CLF is a strategic sub-regional partnership encompassing the local authorities of: Camden Council, City of London Corporation, Hackney Council, Haringey Council, Islington Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth Council, Lewisham Council, Southwark Council, Tower Hamlets Council, Wandsworth Council, Westminster City Council.

To effectively deliver the programme in line with DWP requirements, there is a need for a Delivery Partner to undertake the work on behalf of Camden Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City Council and partially for Haringey Council and Lambeth Council.

The City reserves the right to extend the service in part or in full to the rest of the councils under CLF noted above should the need arise.

Equally it reserves the right to reduce the requirement depending on DWP or other factors.

The duration of the agreement is up to 5 years only.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is launching Connect to Work programme (formerly known as Universal Support), an employment programme aimed at assisting disabled individuals and unemployed people with complex needs in securing employment.

02

To effectively deliver the programme in line

To effectively deliver the programme in line with DWP requirements, there is a need for a Delivery Partner to undertake the work on behalf of Camden Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City Council and partially for Haringey Council and Lambeth Council.

03

The City reserves the right to extend

The City reserves the right to extend the service in part or in full to the rest of the councils under CLF noted above should the need arise.

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