Official UK procurement notice
P396 - Bi-borough Adult Social Care Information and Advice Website - 'People First'
Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPeople First is the current Royal Borough of Kensington (RBKC) and Westminster City Council (WCC) website for Adult Social Care Services. The contract for the current People First website is reaching expiry.
The ambition is to empower users of services, their family members, residents, community partners and providers through having effective web information and advice on ASC functions, processes, support services, activities and events.
Be it seeking information about local support services, wellbeing events, or support around a safeguarding, we want all stakeholders to have immediacy of access to the guidance they need so they feel informed and in control.
Underpinning this ambition is a website that is inviting to use; one that is visually engaging, easy to navigate, responsive, reliable and safe.
This pre-market engagement exercise is seeking intelligence from the Provider Market to inform a formal sourcing activity for the People First website’s development.
CPV: Administrative social services · Compliance software development services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Industry specific software development services · Internet browsing software development services · Internet development services · Networking, Internet and intranet software development services · Social services · Social work services · Web page editing software development services · World wide web (www) site design services · World wide web (www) site operation host services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 May 2025, 17:18 BST
- Last source update
- 12 May 2025, 17:18 BST
- Authority reference
P396- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-020642- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05116dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 May 2025 → 25 Aug 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published12 May 2025, 17:18 BST
- Tender notice expected30 May 2025, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement30 May 2025, 23:59 BST
Westminster City Council is looking to procure services for the development of the Adult Social Care Information and Advice website, People First.
A Request For Information (RFI) is available to complete for interested organisations. To take part in the market engagement exercise, interested organisations should complete the RFI document which is available on the councils e-procurement tool ("Jaggaer"), reference SQ_30101 - P396 - Bi-borough Adult Social Care Information and Advice Website - 'People First', and the link to Jaggaer can be found here: wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/129836590196C4677F2A ↗. Please copy and paste onto your browser.
Further information can be found on the council’s website here: www.westminster.gov.uk/about-council/procur… ↗.
This questionnaire will not form part of the formal procurement process.
All responses are to be submitted via Jaggaer (online procurement portal ref: SQ_30101 - P396 - Bi-borough Adult Social Care Information and Advice Website - 'People First', no later than Midday (12:00 hrs (GMT)) on Friday 30th May 2025. The deadline for submitting clarification questions will be 17:00hrs Thursday 28th May 2025.
Our expectation is that a procurement will follow on conclusion of the market engagement exercise.
It is to be noted that a UK3 - Planned Procurement Notice relating to the above has also been issued.
Once registered, visit this link to find out more and complete a short questionnaire: wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/129836590196C4677F2A ↗
- Contract starts25 Aug 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 May 2025, 17:18 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender