Closed tender

Connect to Work - Individual Placement Support Provider (CDO/2025/253)

Details

Topic
Job search services
Published
27 October 2025
Submission
27 November 2025

Tender description

Stoke on Trent City Council is seeking to appoint an IPS (Individual Placement Support) specialist to deliver a fidelity model to establish pathway back into employment or help sustain existing employment. This is part of the Connect to Work programme with Stoke on Trent City Council operating as the Delivery Area Member and Staffordshire County Council as the Accountable Body. Keywords: Connect to Work, Job Search Services , Counselling Services

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published27 October 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date27 November 2025

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

  • 79611000 · Job search services
  • 85312320 · Counselling services

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