Opportunity brief
Closing date not statedNational Apprenticeship Awards Sponsorship Services
The Department for Work and Pensions is undertaking market engagement in relation to a proposed Open Procurement for sponsorship services supporting the National Apprenticeship Awards. Suppliers are invited to participate in a market engagement event planned for 16 October 2026, where DWP will explain the requirement in more detail and invite comments from potential bidders. The event will be held on Friday 16th October at 10.30am and will be delivered via MS Teams. Interested suppliers wishing to participate in the market engagement event should register their interest by emailing naa.sponsorshipitt@DWP.GOV.UK no later than 09:00 on 16th October 2026. Please include the names and email addresses of all those from your organisation who wish to attend. Following registration, suppliers will receive joining instructions for the online event. Presentation materials and a summary of questions and answers arising from the event will be made available to all interested suppliers to support transparency and equal treatment. These will be available via DWP's e-procurement system Atamis.
- Other sectors
- Public sector
- United Kingdom

- Buyer / issuer
- Department for Work & Pensions
- Sector
- Other sectors
- Country / region
- United Kingdom
- Public or private
- Public sector
- Closing date
- Not stated
- Closing date not stated
- Estimated value
- £375k
- GBP
- Submission method
- Via the buyer's portal, linked from Find a Tender
- Tender number
- ocds-h6vhtk-077c8d
- Status
- Active
Scope summary
The Department for Work and Pensions is undertaking market engagement in relation to a proposed Open Procurement for sponsorship services supporting the National Apprenticeship Awards. Suppliers are invited to participate in a market engagement event planned for 16 October 2026, where DWP will explain the requirement in more detail and invite comments from potential bidders. The event will be held on Friday 16th October at 10.30am and will be delivered via MS Teams. Interested suppliers wishing to participate in the market engagement event should register their interest by emailing naa.sponsorshipitt@DWP.GOV.UK no later than 09:00 on 16th October 2026. Please include the names and email addresses of all those from your organisation who wish to attend. Following registration, suppliers will receive joining instructions for the online event. Presentation materials and a summary of questions and answers arising from the event will be made available to all interested suppliers to support transparency and equal treatment. These will be available via DWP's e-procurement system Atamis.
Category: services
Key requirements
- Procurement method: See the tender documents
- Briefing session: Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Eligibility and evaluation: set out in the tender documents. Check mandatory returnables, registrations and scoring before you commit.
Required documents
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Important dates
- Published
- 07 Oct 2026
- First seen by Atlas
- 08 Oct 2026
- Briefing session
- Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Submission deadline
- Not stated
Commercial snapshot
- Estimated value
- £375k
- Contract type
- See the tender documents
- Category
- services
- Source
- UK Find a Tender
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