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Early Help for Adults Navigator Service
Manchester City Council · Local authority
In brief
Manchester City Council has announced plans to buy care work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.
The estimated value is £3,435,236 excluding VAT.
The contract runs for 4 years, starting 1 April 2027.
Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.
Can I win this?
Competition
Typical: a median of 5 bids per contract for this buyer (from 42 awards in the last 12 months).
What the notice says
Manchester City Council requires a provider to deliver a city-wide Early Help for Adults Navigator Service for adults experiencing multiple disadvantage.
The service will provide intensive, strengths-based and trauma-informed support to individuals facing complex and interconnected challenges, including housing instability, mental health needs, substance misuse, domestic abuse, social care needs and contact with the criminal justice system.
Through dedicated Navigator workers, the service will help individuals access appropriate services, build resilience, improve independence and achieve sustainable outcomes.
The provider will work collaboratively with Adult Social Care, health partners, housing organisations, voluntary and community sector partners and people with lived experience to deliver a coordinated, person-centred and preventative approach that supports wider system change and reduces inequalities across Manchester.
How to bid
- Read the full notice on Find a Tender, including any tender documents it links to.
- Register your organisation on the Central Digital Platform (through Find a Tender) if you have not already. Suppliers need to be registered to take part in procurements under the Procurement Act 2023.
- Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.
Timeline
- Pipeline notice · UK1, notice 066155-2026
- Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 066166-2026
About the buyer
Manchester City CouncilLast 12 months
Procurements
96Awards
50Suppliers it has used most for care
- Great Places Housing Group Limited2 contracts
- Specialist Care Team Limited2 contracts
- Age Concern Manchester (t/a Age UK Manchester)1 contract
- Be Caring Ltd1 contract
- Bha for Equality1 contract
Similar open tenders
All open care tenders- £82kestimated
- £8.76mestimated
- £400kestimated
- £56mestimated
- £508mframework ceiling
From notice 066155-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 14 July 2026, last updated 14 July 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.