Contracts Finder notice
VRU-Girls & Young Women Community Based Mentoring Programme
Authority: MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR POLICE AND CRIME
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGirls & Young Women's Community-based Mentoring Programme
The VRU is seeking to procure a provider that can deliver a community-based mentoring service for girls and young women. The service will offer mentoring based on the differing needs at crucial age points from 9-25 years; with support for Girls and Young Women (GYW) that (are):
- Transitioning through the education system, including the crucial transition from primary to secondary school
- Displaying risks of being involved in the criminal justice system
- Showing signs of being affected by unhealthy relationships (inc. exploitation/grooming, peer on peer abuse / criminal networks )
- Requiring careers and employment support
- Impacted by violence and abuse in the home, and other adverse childhood experiences
If you have any clarification questions, please email these to VRUProcurement@london.gov.uk ,
When sending your clarifications to the VRU procurement inbox please use the subject 'Girls & Young Women's Community-based Mentoring Programme', and the clarification deadline has been set as 29 August 2023.
Please request tender documentation by emailing VRUProcurement@london.gov.uk ,Please use the subject 'Girls & Young Women's Community-based Mentoring Programme when making your request.
You must email your completed tender response to: VRUProcurement@london.gov.uk . The tender submission deadline is 12:00 noon on 11 September 2023.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Buyer reference
- VRU-Girls & Young Women Community Based Mentoring Programme
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Yes
- Tender deadline
- Published
- Procurement method
- Open
- Additional classifications 1: Reference
- 98000000
- Additional classifications 1: Scheme
- CPV
- Additional classifications 1: Description
- Other community, social and personal services
- Tender contract period: Start date
- Tender contract period: End date
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- London, United Kingdom
- Description
This contract has an option to extend once internal approval is sought.
The contract has now been extended from 31/03/26 - 31/03/27
Key dates
Published dates- Notice published7 Aug 2023
- Award decision1 Feb 2024
- Contract starts1 Feb 2024
- Contract ends31 Mar 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR POLICE AND CRIMEContracting authority
- Identifier
- supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/R8n5Kb3J · GB-SRS
Suppliers named on the notice
- Advance CharitySupplier
- Identifier
- 04064660 · GB-CHC
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (9)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-72554560-b231-4a2d-a29f-1c673c76332d-2026-06-04T14:31:43+01:00
- Published
- 7 Aug 2023
- Latest update
- 4 Jun 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-72554560-b231-4a2d-a29f-1c673c76332d
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-72554560-b231-4a2d-a29f-1c673c76332d-1