Contract

Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation Partner

  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority

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

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-074585

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05e2e3

Published 18 November 2025, 8:41am



Scope

Reference

GMCA1432

Description

The Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care service is a supported employment offer for people with health conditions and disabilities. Due to the extension of the IPSPC service, the GMCA has awarded the incumbent programme evaluation partner (SQW Ltd) a below threshold contract in order to complete an end-to-end longitudinal evaluation of the programme.

A robust evaluation is required to inform future service offers across GM. Through a mixed methods approach, the aim of this evaluation is to generate learning from the programme, testing, monitoring and evaluating the successes and shortfalls of the programme's design and delivery, offering solutions where possible. The evaluation will provide an in-depth analysis of participant needs and how these needs have been met through interventions within the service's directly delivered offer and through interventions supplied by wider integrated support services. The evaluation should understand participants' barriers to work, their intermediate improvement and the quality of outcomes they achieve.


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Supplier

Contract value

  • £99,999 excluding VAT
  • £119,998.80 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Date signed

11 September 2025

Contract dates

  • 11 September 2025 to 31 October 2027
  • 2 years, 1 month, 20 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
  • 85000000 - Health and social work services
  • 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Contract locations

  • UKD3 - Greater Manchester

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - without competition


Supplier

SQW LIMITED

  • Companies House: 01701564

Oxford Centre For Innovation Blue Boar Court, 9 Alfred Street

Oxford

OX1 4EH

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ14 - Oxfordshire

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

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Contracting authority

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PXBN-3793-LCTQ

56 Oxford Street

Manchester

M1 6EU

United Kingdom

Region: UKD33 - Manchester

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government