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Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Young Futures Hubs and Transformation programme: Delivery partner

Business ServicesCPV 85000000
Value£7.6m
Deadline4 Aug 2026
Published9 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 9 Jul 202610 days leftCloses 4 Aug 2026
Who to contact
commercial@dcms.gov.uk

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Contract value in context
£7.6mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£8.2m

This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is intending to procure a delivery partner for the Young Futures Hubs and Transformation programme, to provide support to Local Authorities (LAs) to deliver Young Futures Hubs (YF Hubs) and Local Youth Transformation projects, and to establish a national centre for Young Futures Hubs and transformation, producing guidance, best practices and training to share learning with Local Authorities not participating on the programme.

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2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068977
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
064903-2026
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