Awarded contract

TCS8224 Early Years Funding Software

Details

Buyer: Torbay Council
Supplier(s): The Access Group
Value: £75,179
Duration: 2 years
Published: 3 September 2025
Source: uk:procontracts

Tender description

Continuation of the Early Years Funding Software. The system is for administering funding claims and associated processes, for children attending a funded place in a childcare provider in the local area. It is a vital tool for the service and will be used to administer funding payments totalling around £5m annually. The Council’s early years’ block of the DSG is also reliant on the information within the system through the annual census process. Keywords: Software, Early Years

Timeline

Completed: Award date1 December 2024
Completed: Award published3 September 2025
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date30 November 2026in 3 weeks

About the buyer

Torbay Council is the local authority for Torbay, and its commercial services team manages procurement across the council.

Framework call-offs, dynamic purchasing systems and direct award to a fellow contracting authority offer further routes to a contract. Smaller-value work is quoted directly, with at least three suppliers invited and two of them based in Torbay.

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

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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