Awarded· 10 Sept 2025
Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation Partner
Greater Manchester Combined Authority · Manchester, North West
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has awarded Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation Partner. It is a contract for other health and social care in Manchester.
Source: Find a Tender, published 18 Nov 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Sqw
2025
Contract starts
2025
Award notice published
UK7 - Contract Details Notice · 08:41
View noticeNext
2027
Contract ends
2 years after it starts
About this tender
In brief
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has awarded Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation Partner. It is a contract for other health and social care in Manchester. The contract went to Sqw. It was awarded on 10 September 2025. The contract value is £99,999. The contract runs from 10 September 2025 to 31 October 2027. It lasts 2 years.
It is run as a below threshold - without competition. Find a Tender published it on 18 November 2025. The notice number is 074585-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-05e2e3.
Summary of the contracting process
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has successfully completed the procurement process for the project titled "Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation Partner." This falls within the services sector, specifically targeting research and development, health, social work, and community services. The contract, awarded on 11 September 2025, will be active until 31 October 2027 and involves a partnership with SQW Limited.
The procurement was executed through a direct and below-threshold method, bypassing open competition, and supports initiatives within the Greater Manchester region. SMEs with expertise in analysing and improving employment support services for people with health conditions may find similar future opportunities.
The current tender exemplifies demand for detailed, outcome-based evaluation services to enhance programme delivery and outcomes, making it an ideal match for consultancies specialising in social policy and public sector consulting.
The notice in full
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.
Lots: no lot details came through with this notice. The official notice and the tender pack have the full breakdown.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- 10 Sep 2025 to 31 Oct 2027 (2 years)
- Awarded to
- Sqw
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- UK7 - Contract Details Notice
- Procurement method
- Direct
- Procedure
- Below threshold - without competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- SME
Values
- Contracts value
- £99,999
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Complete
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 074585-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05e2e3
- CPV code
- 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services; 85000000 - Health and social work services; 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
- CPV division
- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services; 85 - Health and social work services; 98 - Other community, social and personal services
Location
- Local authority
- Manchester
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M1 6EU
- Electoral ward
- Deansgate
- Constituency
- Manchester Central
- Region
- North West
- Sub-region
- Manchester
- Area
- Greater Manchester
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Greater Manchester Combined Authority
- Category
- Services
- Address
- Manchester, M1 6EU · North West · England
Not stated in the notice: contact, phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Sqw
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about this tender
Who won the Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation… contract?
Greater Manchester Combined Authority awarded the contract to Sqw on 10 September 2025. It is due to end on 31 October 2027, which is when a re-tender would normally follow.
How much is the Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation… contract worth?
The contract value is £99,999. The contract runs from 10 September 2025 to 31 October 2027 (2 years).
Who is the buyer for Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care Evaluation…?
Greater Manchester Combined Authority, based in Manchester, North West.
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