Stale Pre-tender

Children's Centre Outreach

Details

Buyer: Westminster City Council
Value: £900,000
Topic: Miscellaneous health services
Published: 6 August 2025
Submission: 19 September 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Westminster City Council (WCC) has completed a competitive tendering exercise to award a new contract for Outreach services to support family hubs and children’s centres. The tender has been awarded to Coram Family Lives. The provider Family Lives merged with Coram during the tender process. Outreach is an essential part of the service design delivered from the Council’s three Children’s Centre Hubs. It’s purpose is to target and reach the most vulnerable families who without it are less likely to engage, and deliver a single integrated Early Help offer in WCC. Outreach plays a pivotal role in working alongside the Early Help team in delivering their priorities, supporting early intervention and prevention, and heading-off costlier (human and financial) escalations; it is essential to the overall effectiveness of WCC Children’s Centres, Family Hubs, and multi-agency partnership working in the field of Early Help. The provider will deliver the following services: a high-quality outreach service to families. a befriending volunteer support Service for families with children aged up to 5 years an Early Help volunteering service for families with children aged 0-15

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published6 August 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Westminster City Council is a London local authority that centralised procurement into a dedicated department in 2020. Tenders above a set threshold are advertised on the council's Jaggaer-built portal alongside Find a Tender. Lower-value contracts go through a streamlined request for quote process for smaller suppliers. Larger contracts run through open procedures, restricted tendering, or frameworks and dynamic markets. The council commissions adults' and children's services with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea under a bi-borough arrangement. A Contract Management Framework, refreshed in November 2023, governs awarded contracts.

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 Westminster City Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, architectural and engineering services and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

85140000 · Miscellaneous health services
85311300 · Welfare services for children and young people
85323000 · Community health services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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