Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: Norfolk County Council - Framework Agreement for development and implementation of the SIGN programme (Social Investors) (GBP 75,000,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 5th October 2026 United Kingdom

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Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Norfolk County Council. Procurement: Framework Agreement for development and implementation of the SIGN programme (Social Investors). Description: Norfolk County Council (NCC) has been procuring contracts for social investor provider partnerships over the last few years as part of a wider programme of social inclusion, and is now putting in place a framework agreement to better enable departments within the council to bring on board social investors for its social inclusion projects. This strategic framework seeks to support long-term partne Category: services. Value: GBP 75,000,000 (largest of 4 stated award/contract values). Supplier(s): SIGN Outcomes Partnerships Limited, Social Finance Limited, SOCIAL INVESTMENT BUSINESS FOUNDATION.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 5th October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 5th October 2026 · 13:13

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 2 · Moderate

Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Moderate (20.4/100). Strongest contributor: Likely Event Severity (9.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Entity Criticality (2.0/20 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (62.75/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

Strongest contributor: Likely Event Severity
Limiting factor: Entity Criticality

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: Leicestershire County Council - Highway Monitoring Services_26 (GBP 3,000,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

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Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.