The £10m pilot will provide 1,000 young people aged 18 to 22 with volunteering opportunities abroad in 2011/12. It will be means-tested to ensure young people from a range of back-grounds take part.
But Peter Slowe, director of Projects Abroad, one of the UK's largest private providers of international volunteering opportunities, said he feared the contract would be awarded to a non-specialist youth provider and no-one else would "know much about it".
"The government operates behind the scenes and it tells organisations 'please tender' for this. The civil servants are nice but they don't have a clue about how to deliver this type of programme."
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