Closed tender

Families First Partnership Programme - Integrated Front Door for children, families and professionals: Soft Market Test

Details

Buyer: Essex County Council
Topic: Health and social work services
Published: 27 February 2026
Submission: 13 March 2026
Source: uk:procontracts

Tender description

Essex County Council (“the Council”) is inviting prospective providers to participate in a soft market test to inform the Council’s commissioning considerations regarding the development of an Integrated Front Door (IFD) for children, families, and professionals across Essex. Keywords: Integrated front door children's social care

Timeline

Completed: Tender published27 February 2026
Current notice
Completed: Submission date13 March 2026

About the buyer

Essex County Council is a local authority that procures through three in-house teams, Corporate, Place and People. Larger opportunities are advertised through Open, the council's own tendering and contract management platform. Smaller and lower-value contract notices instead appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. The Place team commissions highways, waste, energy and transport work, including a dedicated Dynamic Purchasing System for bidders. Construction projects separately run through the Essex Construction Framework, a route for regional contractors. The People team commissions education, social care, adult support and public health services across the county.

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 Essex County Council's contract awards have been in IT services, construction work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

85000000 · Health and social work services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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

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