Find a Tender · Forecast
Department for Work & Pensions
National Apprenticeship Awards Sponsorship Services
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £375,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 7 Oct 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The Department for Work and Pensions is undertaking market engagement in relation to a proposed Open Procurement for sponsorship services supporting the National Apprenticeship Awards.
Suppliers are invited to participate in a market engagement event planned for 16 October 2026, where DWP will explain the requirement in more detail and invite comments from potential bidders. The event will be held on Friday 16th October at 10.30am and will be delivered via MS Teams.
Interested suppliers wishing to participate in the market engagement event should register their interest by emailing naa.sponsorshipitt@DWP.GOV.UK no later than 09:00 on 16th October 2026. Please include the names and email addresses of all those from your organisation who wish to attend.
Following registration, suppliers will receive joining instructions for the online event.
Presentation materials and a summary of questions and answers arising from the event will be made available to all interested suppliers to support transparency and equal treatment. These will be available via DWP's e-procurement system Atamis.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 79952000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
4 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 29 Sep 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 29 September 2026.
Deadline in this release: Mon 23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 091907-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 1 Oct 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 1 October 2026. Stated change: Adding email address for supplier enquiries to replace TBC@dwp.gov.uk. Group mailbox was not previously set up when the notice was first published.
Deadline in this release: Mon 23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 092918-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 7 Oct 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 7 October 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 094940-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 7 Oct 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 7 October 2026. Stated change: To include correct contact email address
Release 094944-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ 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
- ocds-h6vhtk-077c8d
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Mon 12 Oct 2026, 20:22 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 23:57 BST
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