Contract

Support Service for Staying Close Care Leavers

  • South Tyneside Borough Council

UK7: Contract details notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-065766

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05814f (view related notices)

Published 16 October 2025, 8:40am



Scope

Reference

S8897

Description

A support service for staying close care leavers will deliver high-quality, intensive support to care-experienced young people aged 18 to 25 years. The service will primarily provide peripatetic (outreach) or floating support to those living in Staying Close accommodation. There are currently 14 Staying Close accommodation properties, and these are owned and managed by South Tyneside Council.

The service aims to provide care-experienced young people with a psychological and trauma-informed environment where they can develop the interdependent living skills needed to transition successfully into adulthood and maintain stable, long-term accommodation.

The estimated annual value of the contract is £300,000.


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Supplier

Contract value

  • £300,000 excluding VAT
  • £360,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Date signed

15 October 2025

Contract dates

  • 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2026
  • 1 year

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85300000 - Social work and related services

Contract locations

  • UKC22 - Tyneside

Procedure

Procedure type

Open procedure

Special regime

Light touch


Supplier

COQUET TRUST

  • Companies House: 06251078
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PBHV-1257-QRRJ

Coquet House Queensway South

Gateshead

NE11 0ED

United Kingdom

Region: UKC22 - Tyneside

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): Yes

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Contracting authority

South Tyneside Borough Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PYPB-8737-VBHG

Town Hall and Civic Offices, Westoe Road

South Shields

NE33 2RL

United Kingdom

Region: UKC22 - Tyneside

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government