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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Cambridge City Council

The Provision of Specialist advice and support for asylum seekers and refugees

Community ServicesCPV 98000000
Value£250k
Awarded3 Mar 2025
Published5 Feb 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£250ktotal contract value
median £134k
this tender£0£4.1m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Other Community & Personal Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 5,835 valued Other Community & Personal Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

As a service you must provide specialist advice, information, and support as required to asylum seekers and refugees.

This will include the below and full details are provided within the specification: • Specialist advice, information, and support to asylum seekers and refugees • Act as a point of contact for community groups, charities, and other agencies for the latest information and issues facing asylum seekers and refugees • Advocate for the rights of asylum seekers and refugees • Host and engage with relevant networking opportunities and events • Organise and promote cultural activities within the city • Have an office space in Cambridge city that clients can attend in-person • Provide interpreting services as required for one-to-one work clients as well as any promotional materials • Offer OISC-accredited immigration advice and support with immigration applications, such as assisting with Home Office applications • Hold local knowledge on the challenges and opportunities facing residents in Cambridge - working to overcome challenges and seize opportunities. • Understand and work to tackle institutional discrimination through promoting anti-racist practice • Awareness of the impacts of crime and how to support victims of crime, such as domestic abuse, hate crime, and modern slavery • Budgeting and financial advice, including welfare benefits • Employability rights and volunteering opportunities • Housing options and advice • Household support, such as furniture, food, and energy poverty • Hold an exemplary reputation in the community with the ability to allay any misinformation or community tension, having the ability to bring community groups together safely to resolve disputes and promote cohesion • Health awareness • Trauma-informed approach to wellbeing services • Awareness of ESOL opportunities

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

As a service you must provide specialist

As a service you must provide specialist advice, information, and support as required to asylum seekers and refugees.

02

Specialist advice, information, and support to asylum

Specialist advice, information, and support to asylum seekers and refugees.

03

Provide interpreting services as required for one-to-one

Provide interpreting services as required for one-to-one work clients as well as any promotional materials.

04

Offer OISC-accredited immigration advice and support

Offer OISC-accredited immigration advice and support with immigration applications, such as assisting with Home Office applications.

05

Awareness of the impacts of crime

Awareness of the impacts of crime and how to support victims of crime, such as domestic abuse, hate crime, and modern slavery.

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Source & provenance
OCID
80d842b8-9348-4c70-907f-6a2229aea1f3
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
CAMBDC001-DN762264-08686246
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