# NEA CPA12a

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Work and Pensions](/buyers/department-for-work-and-pensions/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [PeoplePlus Group Ltd](/contract-winners/peopleplus-group/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £1,500,000
- Tender value: £1,500,000
- Award date: 29 March 2019
- Published: 23 March 2021
- Contract start: 16 April 2019
- Contract end: 23 October 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 52c4e92b-35ae-443c-96da-046558b0f882-422604
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-fe15d7de-9848-4eb5-be71-54081f32d553

## Description

To provide business advice and support, particularly Business Mentoring, to help out of work Participants who want to move into self-employment develop their business plans, commence trading and develop a sustainable business\. Further, there is a requirement to support Universal Credit \(UC\) participants already self-employed / in business who have fallen below the minimum income floor \(MIF\) deemed acceptable for UC claimants, to access mentoring support via NEA to help them develop and grow their business to achieve an average income above the MIF and sustain this for a 6 month period\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/52c4e92b-35ae-443c-96da-046558b0f882-422604)