Pipeline

Connect to Work

  • Kingston Upon Hull City Council

UK1: Pipeline notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-045011

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0556e0 (view related notices)

Published 1 August 2025, 8:41am



Scope

Description

The recently launched "Get Britain Working" White Paper outlines Government's strategy to invest £240m to support the ambition of a national 80% employment rate and help improve workplace health and keep people in work, including trials of combined public services for those out of work due to ill health. Connect to Work is the first major element of the Get Britain Working Strategy.

By encouraging join-up between health systems and employment support, Connect to Work will support those, primarily, currently outside the workforce and facing greater labour market disadvantages, to stay in work and get back into work. In turn, supporting the Government's ambition for a more inclusive economy, supporting local people to realise their potential and supporting local and national growth.

In England and Wales, Connect to Work funding will support around 100,000 disabled people with health conditions and those with complex barriers to get into employment and on in work.

Connect to Work is a new employment programme, funded by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). The programme will primarily support people who are disabled and economically inactive. The programme will be based on the Integrated Placement Support (IPS) and Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) model of supported employment. It will focus on vocational profiling, early engagement with employers and supporting people into work quickly. Ongoing support is then provided to the participant and their employer to help sustain them in work. The programme also involves flexibility to support adults at risk of unemployment due to complex needs to be supported to sustain and improve their employment.

As the Accountable Body, Hull City Council is responsible for the commissioning, implementation and management of Connect to Work but will be working in partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council on this exciting programme which will support up to 3400 residents from the Hull and East Riding Area. The programme is expected to run for 5 years.

An Invitation to Tender for Connect to Work Hull East Yorkshire programme will be launched in Late August and will be live for 30 days on the YORtender tendering system.

It is anticipated that delivery will start in late 2025.

Commercial tool

Establishes a framework

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 November 2025 to 1 November 2030
  • 5 years, 1 day

Main category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

Contract locations

  • UKE11 - Kingston upon Hull, City of
  • UKE12 - East Riding of Yorkshire

Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

1 September 2025


Procedure

Special regime

Light touch


Contracting authority

Kingston Upon Hull City Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PRNP-1874-YZZR

The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street,

Hull

HU1 1AA

United Kingdom

Contact name: Richard Gregory

Telephone: +44 1482 613256

Email: Richard.Gregory@hullcc.gov.uk

Region: UKE11 - Kingston upon Hull, City of

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government


Other organisation

These organisations are carrying out the procurement, or part of it, on behalf of the contracting authorities.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Summary of their role in this procurement: Hull City Council will be the lead authority in a joint procurement exercsie

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PZQH-9124-TMLN

Cross Street

Beverley

HU17 9BA

United Kingdom

Region: UKE12 - East Riding of Yorkshire


Contact organisation

Contact Kingston Upon Hull City Council for any enquiries.