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Welsh Government is procuring Employability Support Programme services (“the Programme”) an initiative designed to support people in Wales to move closer to employment and into sustainable work. The Programme will deliver targeted, high-impact, person-centred employability support, ensuring that people regardless of their background can thrive in Wales’s evolving dynamic economy.
The Programme directly aligns with the Welsh Government’s Stronger, fairer, greener Wales: a plan for employability and skills (published March 2022), which sets out our responsibility to drive strategic change across the employability system by:
The Programme will play a central role in delivering this strategic change and contributing to national milestones, including:
To realise this strategic transformation and ensure progress towards these national milestones, a network of training providers will be required to deliver a specified employability support offer across the Regional Lots.
This will replace the present system for funding employability support programmes in Wales (existing contracted provision) which is due to end in March 2027.
The procurement will not make use of an electronic auction. Welsh Government do not propose to set the shortest minimum tendering period by reference to section 54(4) of the Procurement Act 2023.
Initial and Additional Cohorts:
To maximise the accessibility, effectiveness and impact, services delivered under the Contract will be targeted towards an Initial Cohort. Services may at the Welsh Government’s discretion subject to funding availability, service need and strategic priorities, be extended to one or both Additional Cohorts during the Contract Duration by written notice:
Initial Cohort
Additional Cohorts
Services for the Additional Cohorts will be materially similar in design and delivery method to those delivered for the Initial Cohort, with the frequency and intensity of interventions tailored to meet the specific needs of each group. Bidder(s) must not submit tenders on the assumption that any Additional Cohorts and / or Extension Period(s) will be activated during the Contract Duration.
For indicative purposes only, Welsh Government currently anticipates that for the whole Programme approximately 8,000 individuals per year may be eligible for and may access services under Cohort 1. This estimate is provided solely to support bidder understanding of the potential scale of delivery. It is not a guarantee of participant numbers, demand levels or referral volumes. Actual numbers may be higher or lower and will depend on wider labour market conditions, referral pathways and funding availability. No minimum or maximum participant volumes are guaranteed under this Contract.
The tender is split into 4 Lots by geographical locations, this procurement description applies to each Lot.
This tender notice is for the award of a public contract through an open procedure in accordance with section 20(1) and (2)(a) of the Procurement Act 2023; Section 9 Light touch applies to this contract.
Welsh Government does not consider there to be any known risks that could jeopardise the satisfactory performance of the Contract, which have not already been addressed in the Tender Documents.
No supplier information available.
This procurement was divided into 4 lots, each awarded separately.
| Lot | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Lot 1 North Wales Mar 2027 – Mar 2032 | £142,800,000 | active |
| Lot 2 Mid Wales and South-West Wales Mar 2027 – Mar 2032 | £190,400,000 | active |
| Lot 3 South -East Wales Mar 2027 – Mar 2032 | £129,200,000 | active |
| Lot 4 South -Central Wales Mar 2027 – Mar 2032 | £217,600,000 | active |
Weightings from the notice, applied to every lot.
Changes the buyer published to this notice after it first appeared.
Welsh Government have decided to extend the tender submission deadline until 2pm BST on 18 May 2026 to allow bidders additional time to review the TUPE data once received and revise their bids. The tender clarification period is also extended until 2pm BST on 6 May 2026. A revised version of the ITT (Section 1 ITT – Instructions to Bidders) has been published on etenderwales which includes the updated procurement timetable.