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Department for Work and Pensions

FSF Dynamic Purchasing System 2 - For the Provision of Work Focused Activities. Project_23908

EducationCPV 80500000
Value£250.0m
Deadline19 Sept 2025
Published17 Sept 2021
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 17 Sept 2021ClosedCloses 19 Sept 2025
Who to contact
CDFSF.ADHOCPROCUREMENT@DWP.GOV.UK

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How to submit
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Contract value in context
£250.0mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£270.0m

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The brief

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) intends to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to procure Work Focused Activities in Jobcentre Plus Districts in England, Scotland and Wales.

The DPS is for the procurement of social and other services referred to in Regulation 74 of the Public Contracts Regulations (2015) and as such, the intention is to use a light touch regime, rather than the full regime described in Regulation 34 (Dynamic Purchasing System).

The DPS is for the sole use of DWP.

The Flexible Support Fund Dynamic Purchasing System 2 – For the Provision of Work Focused Activities (FSF DPS 2) is the replacement for the DWP Dynamic Purchasing System for provision of work-focused activities known as the Flexible Support Fund DPS (FSF DPS).

The current FSF DPS will expire on 31st October 2021 and FSF DPS 2 will replace it for new call-offs from 1st November 2021.

The DPS will open for Supplier accreditation applications from the 20th September 2021.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Flexible Support Fund Dynamic Purchasing System

The Flexible Support Fund Dynamic Purchasing System 2.

02

For the Provision of Work Focused Activities

For the Provision of Work Focused Activities (FSF DPS 2) is the replacement for the DWP Dynamic Purchasing System for provision of work-focused activities known as the Flexible Support Fund DPS (FSF DPS).

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
FSF Dynamic Purchasing System 2 - For the Provision of Work Focused Activities.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02d223
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
023256-2021
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