Closed tender

Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme Open Select List (OSL)

Details

Topic
Other community, social and personal services
Published
8 May 2025
Submission
19 September 2025

Tender description

Lincolnshire County Council are seeking to invite interested parties to apply to join the Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) Open Select List (OSL) from Winter 2025. This is a re-opening of Lincolnshire County Council's HAF OSL. The HAF OSL is a list of experienced providers that meet set requirements and have minimum standards for the delivery of the HAF Programme in Lincolnshire during the period when HAF is funded by the Government. The purpose of the HAF programme is to provide free holiday provision, including healthy food and physical and enriching activities, for Lincolnshire school-aged children and young people (reception to year 11) who are eligible for and receive benefits-related Free School Meals. Only interested parties who already have experience in delivering holiday, after-school or out of school provision to secondary-age children and young people will be considered. For this re-opening Lincolnshire County Council is only seeking interested parties who are able to specifically provide drop-in sports and/or leisure sessions to eligible secondary-aged children and young people (CYP) from school Year 7 to Year 11 during the Winter 2025 school holidays. The drop-in sessions should be fully inclusive so that secondary-aged CYP with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) can also access them. Lot 1: Lincolnshire County Council are seeking to invite interested parties to apply to join the Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) Open Select List (OSL) from Winter 2025. This is a re-opening of Lincolnshire County Council's HAF OSL. The HAF OSL is a list of experienced providers that meet set requirements and have minimum standards for the delivery of the HAF Programme in Lincolnshire during the period when HAF is funded by the Government. The purpose of the HAF programme is to provide free holiday provision, including healthy food and physical and enriching activities, for Lincolnshire school-aged children and young people (reception to year 11) who are eligible for and receive benefits-related Free School Meals. Only interested parties who already have experience in delivering holiday, after-school or out of school provision to secondary-aged children and young people will be considered. For this re-opening Lincolnshire County Council is only seeking interested parties who are able to specifically provide drop-in sports and/or leisure sessions to eligible secondary-aged children and young people (CYP) from school Year 7 to Year 11 during the Winter 2025 school holidays. The drop-in sessions should be fully inclusive so that secondary-aged CYP with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) can also access them.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published8 May 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date19 September 2025

About the buyer

Lincolnshire County Council is the local authority responsible for services across the county, and buys through its own Procurement Lincolnshire team. The council favours a Lincolnshire-based approach to procurement, working with partner public bodies across the county where possible. Small and medium enterprises are encouraged to bid for council contracts directly.

Over the past 5 years, most of Lincolnshire County Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, construction work and transport services.

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