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Future Careers Offer for Young People
AI Summary
The Department for Education is inviting the market to engage in a preliminary dialogue concerning the future provision of careers support to schools and colleges across England. The focus is on delivering comprehensive careers education, information, advice and guidance to young people, with an emphasis on improving the quality of careers guidance from the 2027/28 academic year. The engagement will be held online via MS Teams on 31 March 2026, and partners are encouraged to attend the hour‑long session to explore the Department’s vision and obtain detailed slide material after the event.
The forthcoming demand will cover education and training services that enable schools and colleges to provide more effective careers pathways for students. The service package is expected to support partnership working with strategic and local authorities through the development of careers hubs, extending collaboration throughout the educational system. Stakeholders will be able to explore the capabilities required to deliver these enhanced guidance services and ascertain their readiness to contribute to this national priority.
Services must deliver integrated careers guidance from 2027/28 and facilitate partnership working with authorities.
Description
The Department for Education (DfE) will be undertaking an online market engagement event via MS Teams at 14:00 on 31st March 2026 for interested parties. The event is anticipated to last for a duration of an hour.
The slide deck will be published on Jaggaer (ssq_747) following the event.
If you wish to attend the market engagement event, please use the link found in the Engagement section below entitled: Attend market engagement event – 31st March 2026
We last carried out supplier engagement in November 2024 in order to inform the delivery of careers support for young people.
The purpose of this supplier engagement webinar is to:
• Build on the insight gathered in the supplier engagement conducted in 2024.
• Share our broad plans for how we want to continue to support schools and colleges to improve careers guidance from the 2027/28 academic year and support partnership working with strategic and local authorities through careers hubs.
• Test bidder appetite and delivery viability for the support to improve careers guidance for young people with potential suppliers.
This is not a binding statement of intent or a call for competition
This Notice does not signify the commencement of any competitive process and does not constitute any commitment by the DfE. If DfE decides to commence any competitive process(es) as contemplated by this notice, a separate notice(s) will be published at the relevant time.
The information contained in this notice, including information relating to the nature and scope of the authority's requirements, and the service classification of this requirement from the list of CPV codes, is only indicative of the authority's current thinking, and is neither exhaustive nor binding and the DfE reserves the right at its absolute discretion to amend this notice at the time of issue or at any other time.
The DfE will not be liable for any bid cost, expenditure, work or effort incurred by a provider in acting on the basis of this notice.
Any funding estimates referenced are indicative only and subject to change. The Department makes no commitment at this stage to the final scope or funding envelope of any future contractual activity.
The current funding estimates are between £90m and £180m for a 3-5 year agreement, plus a mobilisation period of up to 6 months if required.
Estimated date of publication of contract notice: 2026-08-14T23:59:59+01:00
Contract location: UK
Engagement process description
Attend online market engagement event – 31st March 2026
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33123569370825?p=7rcZJPhqj0MfP4f5Sn
(Meeting ID: 331 235 693 708 25
Passcode: Gr6Pm9RF)
Please direct all correspondence via Jaggaer (ssq_747), any correspondence recieved via email will be redirected to Jaggaer.
Lot: 1
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: En