Look Ahead Care & Support Ltd: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Registered Society·Social housing register: Registered society·Nationwide (UK)·London
Companies HouseIP21004R ↗Websitelookahead.org.uk ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
10 awarded tenders, 13 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 40%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 40%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedures · 20%45 Construction work1 procedures · 20%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 20%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 5 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 60% (3 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 20% (1 notices)
- Framework 20% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Open 60% (3 notices)
- Limited / restricted 20% (1 notices)
- Selective 20% (1 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 5 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Architectural Decorators Ltd | 2 | 20% | 1 | 2 | 15 Sept 2025 |
| Gilmartins | 2 | 20% | 0 | 2 | 3 Feb 2022 |
| RAAM Construction Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 15 Sept 2025 |
| Nourish Care Systems Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 6 Aug 2025 |
| SEFE Energy Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 1 Nov 2024 |
| Smartdesc Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 6 Aug 2025 |
| UNIT4 Business Software Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 10 Jul 2025 |
| Chas Berger Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 15 Sept 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 30% of 10 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 13 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Look Ahead Care & Support - IT Managed Service Provider | Smartdesc Limited | — | — | £3,157,590 † |
| Look Ahead Care & Support - Case Management Software | Nourish Care Systems Limited | — | — | £1,197,750 † |
| G Cloud 14 Call Off Contract - Finance System | UNIT4 Business Software Limited | — | — | £772,781 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 11 of 11 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Look Ahead Care & Support - Small Works FrameworkArchitectural design services | Awarded / complete | 15 Sept 2025 | £10,000,000 |
| Look Ahead Care & Support - Case Management SoftwareIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | £1,800,000 |
| Look Ahead Care & Support - IT Managed Service ProviderInformation technology services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | £3,200,000 |
| G Cloud 14 Call Off Contract - Finance SystemFinancial systems software package | Awarded / complete | 10 Jul 2025 | — |
| Look Ahead Care And Support Limited - Gas Supply Contract via Inenco NTW Energy DPSMains gas | Awarded / complete | 1 Nov 2024 | — |
| Neutral Vendor and Staff Bank ServicesTime accounting or human resources software package | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2024 | — |
| Look Ahead Care and Support - Provision of cleaning servicesAccommodation cleaning services | Open | 7 Feb 2024 | £3,000,000 |
| T1-5641 Look Ahead Care and Support Fire Safety Maintenance ContractEmergency lighting equipment | Awarded / complete | 7 Feb 2023 | — |
| T1-5641 Look Ahead Care and Support Gas Servicing ContractCommissioning of heating installations | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2022 | — |
| T1-5641 Look Ahead Care and Support Planned Works ContractArticles for the bathroom and kitchen | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2022 | — |
| T1-5641 Look Ahead Care and Support Repairs & Voids ContractRefurbishment work | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2022 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£8.0m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 5 award records on 5 procedures (4 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 3 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 0 of 12 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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