AwardedAwarded 3 June 2026

T26-064BUS Delivery of a Customer Facing Small Business Employment Academy for DCSDC LMP

Derry City and Strabane District Council · Local authority

In brief

Derry City and Strabane District Council awarded training and education work to D.F.P.F. Ltd on 3 June 2026.

The notice gives a value of £22,000 including VAT.

The contract runs for 7 months, starting 29 May 2026.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

What the notice says

This is an invitation to tender for the delivery of a Customer Facing Small Business Employment academy for 2025/26 on behalf of Derry City and Strabane District Council’s Labour Market Partnership, hereby known as DSLMP. The 2025/26 DSLMP Action Plan strives to improve employability outcomes and / or labour market conditions locally. This procurement exercise focuses on the Skilled Labour Supply theme, to deliver the 2025/26 Customer Facing Small Business Employment Academy. To ensure residents are skilled, qualified and confident to apply for employment within small local businesses requiring customer service representatives such as retail, coffee shops, restaurants, guest houses, corner shops, take away establishments, call centres etc., DSLMP are seeking tenders from organisations who have the required experience, expertise, and qualifications in delivering and managing such an academy. This employment academy is to be targeted, and employment focused and must take into consideration individual barriers and needs. The AT will deliver qualifications and a wraparound support service to help residents of DCSDC secure employment to meet the demand within customer facing small businesses. Your submission must be submitted via etendersNI, via this CFT. No other method of submissions will be accepted. Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
D.F.P.F. Ltd (SME)
1 bid received
£24,900
Awarded 3 June 2026

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Tender notice · UK4, notice 037743-2026
  2. Contract award notice · UK6, notice 052620-2026

Last time this was bought

T26-023BUS Development and Delivery of a Graduate Employment Academy for DCSDC LMP

Awarded
21 April 2026
Value
£17,410
Bids
2

Matched on Derry City and Strabane District Council, the type of work and the title. Check the notice to be sure.

About the buyer

Procurements

131

Awards

65

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From notice 037743-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 24 April 2026, last updated 4 June 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.