Awarded contract

TIIAG - NEET Tracking Service - CA&FS - CSC/2023/688*

Details

Buyer: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Supplier(s): Prospectus Services Ltd
Value: £9,900,000
Duration: 5 years
Topic: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published: 18 March 2025
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Targeted Impartial Information Advice and Guidance (TIIAG) service which discharges Stoke-on-Trent's duties set out in the 2008 Act; with specific emphasis on identifying and supporting those Yr12 and Yr 13 young people who are NEET including those who are NEET up to 25 with SEND and care leavers. The Service Provider will be required to make provision for TIIAG through a digital and e-enabled service. The Service Provider will also be expected to collect and record information in accordance with the NCCIS MI Requirement and report this information to the Department for Education monthly.

Timeline

Completed: Award date27 November 2024
Completed: Award published18 March 2025
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date27 November 2029in 3 years

About the buyer

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local authority, and its Category Management team runs procurement from the Civic Centre. Contract opportunities are listed on the council's own tender-search portal and on the government's Contracts Finder service. Pro-Contract, the Supply Stoke and Staffordshire portal, hosts contract opportunities shared across Staffordshire councils. A Commercial Pipeline gives suppliers advance notice of upcoming contracts before they are formally advertised. Every tendering procedure follows the council's own Procurement Code alongside the Procurement Act 2023. An awarded contracts directory publishes the outcome of every past tender for suppliers to review.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
80000000 · Education and training services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov