How to win: Provision of Best Start Hubs and Healthy Babies Parenting Services

About this contract

Manchester City Council's Manchester Strategy 2025-2035 strategic theme sets out the city's overarching priorities. Our People, focuses on everyone who calls Manchester home, and seeks to ensure that all residents have the opportunity to live their best lives. This theme is centred on supporting people to be happy, healthy, safe, and active from childhood and throughout their lives. It recognises that the wellbeing of Manchester's residents is fundamental to the city's long-term success.

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Manchester City Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £2,800,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 4 September 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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