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Future Employment Support
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- Thu 23 Jul 2026, 23:59 BSTA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice. The source records Thu 23 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 15 Jul 2026
- Region
- North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
AKG, a leading provider of employment, skills, health and behaviour change programmes in the UK, is preparing to bid as a prime provider in the DWP's forthcoming commissioning of the Future Employment Support programme, with the procurement process expected to start in late November 2026.
Although subject to further confirmation based on ongoing market engagement events hosted by DWP over the coming months, the indicative Contract Package Areas that AKG is currently considering include:
CPA 2: South and Local London
CPA 4: West Midlands, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Warwickshire
CPA 6: York and North Yorkshire, Hull and East Yorkshire and Greater Lincolnshire
CPA 8: East Midlands (EMCCA), Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire
CPA 11: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, Kent, Surrey and Sussex and Brighton; and
CPA12: Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Bedfordshire
We would like to engage providers with diverse specialisms, expertise and experience to support the delivery of a high quality person-centred programme which will enable individuals to access sustainable employment and thrive in work.
We intend to host a webinar on 23rd July at 11am to walk through our Expression of Interest process and plans for supply chain design and development over the coming months. We encourage applications from SMEs, VCSE, local and specialist providers to apply.
If you would like to attend please register at the following link https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d03d7950-73c5-48eb-ac0c-be370dbd5fdf@bde029d0-ff35-40f1-a99f-10cda77defa7
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 75000000 75100000 75130000 75300000 75310000 79000000 79600000 79610000 80000000 80400000 80500000 80520000 80530000 80560000 85000000 85100000 85140000 85300000 85310000 85312000
- 75110000 75131000 75311000 75314000 79611000 80420000 80510000 80522000 80533000 80561000 85141000 85312400 85312500 85312510
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 15 Jul 2026Notice
Notice published 15 July 2026.
Release 58afd629-5253-4b8f-9e92-2cf20e716e4a
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The source does not state a usable value.
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Tender hubs
More employment support tenders like this
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08/ Related
Where to go next
These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.
- Reference
- 58afd629-5253-4b8f-9e92-2cf20e716e4a
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Stage
- preprocurement · Open
- Last verified
- Fri 17 Jul 2026, 01:03 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 01:06 BST
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