ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL

Upcoming opportunities

• F043PA - Wellbeing and Policy Support Services for Schools Market Engagement

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 29 Oct, 2026Value £500.00kSource Find a Tender

  ssex County Council is seeking an established, off-the-shelf digital solution that can be mobilised at pace across all Essex schools, enabling individual schools to develop and publish their own Inclusion Strategy aligned to the DFE inclusion priorities and Essex pillars of inclusion. Please see below microsoft forms t

• A028PA Direct Payment Support Services

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 4 Nov, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Essex County Council ("the Council") is inviting providers to participate in a market engagement exercise to inform the Councils commissioning considerations regarding the provision of direct payment support services supporting adults and children with their self-directed support offer through the delivery of direct pa

• Short Breaks, Community Clubs and Activities (SBCCA)

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 26 Nov, 202621 daysSource Find a Tender

  Short Breaks Community Clubs and Activities (SBCCA) offer parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disability (SEND) a break from their additional caring responsibilities, while ensuring children and young people have the opportunities develop, learn, socialise and interact

• Social Media Screening Services

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 28 Oct, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Essex County Council (ECC) is seeking information from suppliers of social media screening services as part of an early market engagement exercise. ECC's HR Shared Services team provides employment vetting services to over 900 schools across Essex, as well as a range of local authority and other public sector organisat

• Food Waste Treatment Services Contract

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 14 Oct, 2026Value £8.00mSource Find a Tender

  Essex County Council (ECC) is planning to issue a tender in early January 2027 for a contract(s) relating to the anaerobic digestion treatment and disposal of food waste collected from households in the Essex area. The required treatment services must start on 1 April 2028. ECC currently manages approximately 55,000 to

• Online Digital Catalogue and Archive Management Solutions (ERO Online Digital Catalogue)

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 5 Oct, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Description Essex Record Office (ERO) is seeking to engage with the market to understand available solutions and supplier capabilities that can support the modernisation of its archive management, digital preservation and public access services. ERO is undertaking this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise to in

• Materials Marketing

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 2 Sept, 2026Value £4.00mSource Find a Tender

  This contract will be for the management of the disposal of approximately 70,000 tonnes of waste and recyclate collected at RCHWs across Essex. The Authority is exploring options for procuring the service for disposal of these materials and seeking feedback from the market on how to do this.

• Scheduling Tool

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 2 Sept, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Essex Adult Community Learning (ACL) are seeking to procure a Scheduling Tool. The solution must provide a comprehensive scheduling, timetabling and resource management platform for ACL, enabling efficient planning of courses, tutors, rooms and resources across multiple delivery locations. The solution will need to in

• Healthwatch Essex Core Service

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 4 Sept, 2026Value £656.00kSource Find a Tender

  Essex County Council ("the Council") is undertaking a Soft Market Test (SMT) exercise to inform future commissioning considerations for the Healthwatch Essex Core Service. It may be worth noting that the existing contract for this service is due to end in March 2027. The Council has a statutory responsibility to commis

• Essex Carers Core Offer of Support

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 10 Aug, 2026Value £6.00mSource Find a Tender

  Essex County Council (the Council) is procuring a new support service for informal carers in Essex. The Council defines a carer as, "A carer is someone who provides support to family or friends who could not manage without this help. This could be caring for a relative, partner or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or

• Building a Lasting Legacy (BaLL) Programme Delivery Partner

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 21 Aug, 2026Value £70.00kSource Find a Tender

  Essex County Council (ECC) is seeking expressions of interest from organisations with relevant experience in programme management, employer engagement, careers education and employability and skills delivery, ahead of the release of a formal Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the delivery of the Building a Lasting Legacy

• Specialist Financial Advice Service

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingPublished 11 Aug, 2026Value £1.50mSource Find a Tender

  Essex County Council (ECC) are committed to investing in a quality financial Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) offer for our residents that enables the provision of accredited, regulated and specialist as well as maximising the role of communities to deliver preventative support. Our vision is to deliver high-qual

• Waste Service Mobile Plant

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 14 Aug, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Background: Essex is a large county with almost 1.5 million residents generating approximately 700,000 tonnes of local authority collected waste per annum. As the statutory Waste Disposal Authority for Essex, Essex County Council (the Authority) is responsible for providing a range of infrastructure and arrangements fo

• Independent Travel Training App

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 6 Aug, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Essex County Council's Travel Training team are seeking a new front-ended Travel Training app, for our Travel Trainers, Students and Parents/Carers, with an accompanying back-ended management platform. This is to replace the current desktop system that the team currently operates and to reduce the administrative pressu

• Case Notes Transcription & Summarisation Tool

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 28 Jul, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Essex County Council (ECC) is seeking to explore how artificial intelligence can support Adult Social Care practice by transcribing and summarising practitioner and resident conversations. The work forms part of ECC's wider Pioneering AI programme, established to identify safe, ethical, and effective use of AI across t

• Mental Health Supported Accommodation Pathway

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 17 Jul, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Essex County Council ("the Council") is inviting prospective providers to participate in a market engagement exercise to inform the Council's commissioning considerations regarding the provision the Mental Health Supported Accommodation Pathway. Please find below a summary of the provision below. This accommodation is

• Short and Long-Term Lease and Fleet Management

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 29 Jul, 2026Value £15.00mSource Find a Tender

  Essex County Council is seeking a provider to deliver Vehicle Leasing and Fleet Management Services. The contract will include the provision and management of long-term leased vehicles, short-term hire vehicles and specialist vehicles to support operational service delivery across the Council. Vehicle requirements are

• Minibus Fleet (Digigo)

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingPublished 30 Jun, 2026Value £2.26mSource Find a Tender

  The Authority intends to purchase 28 Minibus Vehicles for its Digital Demand Responsive Transport Service 'Digigo'. 18 of these will be standard minibuses, and a further 10 will be low-floor accessible minibuses.

• Families First Neighbourhood Grants Programme 2026 to 2029

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingPublished 25 Jun, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Essex County Council intends to launch The Families First Neighbourhood Grants Programme (FFNGP) subject to completion of internal governance. Applications will be invited from voluntary and community sector organisations to deliver neighbourhood based targeted early intervention support for children, young people and

• A007PA-Additional Reablement Capacity 2027

  Location: East of England

  UpcomingEngagement closes 17 Jun, 2026Value £20.00mSource Find a Tender

  Essex County Council ("the Council") is inviting prospective providers to participate in a market engagement exercise to inform the Council's commissioning considerations regarding the provision of Additional Reablement Capacity in 2027. Please find below a summary of the key national guidance which informs the provisi