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25067 Supervised Family Time

Buyer: Cambridgeshire County Council →

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BuyerCambridgeshire County Council
StatusClosed
Deadline18 Jun 2026
Value£1,500,000
Published14 May 2026

What is being bought

Cambridgeshire County Council requires providers of Supervised Family Time, located in the Eastern Region, and across the Country, to support the Council to meet their statutory duty to ensure children enjoy time with family. This is to supplement the Council's own in house supervised family time service who cannot meet the current demand due to volume or when children live a distance from Cambridgeshire.

Categories

Health and social work services 85000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£1,500,000
Contract periodFrom 21 Sept 2026 to 20 Sept 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality — See tender documents for weighting of sub-criteria. Prices will be assessed as part of the procurement process. To get onto Tier 1 of the framework, bidders must submit a price within the ceiling set out in the tender documents. (100%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Health and social work servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health and social work services (85000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8538,3731 median · 19.7 average (22,930 of 38,373 with a bid count)1.8 average (24,592 of 38,373 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer25Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1,3544 median · 9 average (32 of 1,354 with a bid count)1.5 average (33 of 1,354 with named award suppliers)3 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Indicative price outcome

£975,899 is the median lowest-valid-bid benchmark for the broad CPV market sample, against this procedure’s published value of £1,500,000.

This is a historical comparator, not a bid-price forecast or a guaranteed saving. It excludes records where the published values cannot be sensibly compared and does not adjust for lot structure, quality weighting, framework terms or scope.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byGPA
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsIt is anticipated, that during the life of this framework, the Local Government Reform (LGR) process will commence and/or progress potentially impacting this contract. Impacts may include, but are not limited to, modifications such as a novation of the legal entity you currently contract with, increases and/or decreases in the value/volume of services required due to the change in size/scope of the Contracting Authority, and/or changes to the scope of the nature of services required. Although any contract scope changes should broadly relate to the nature of the existing scope, new services of a related nature may be required that were not previously included. The scale and exact timing of the changes are unknown at this point, but it is known that LGR will impact Cambridgeshire County Council. All suppliers who work with the Authority need to be aware and where possible, work with the Authority to adapt to any changes/modifications as required to ensure smooth transition and continuity of services.

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-060233
Latest release ID044564-2026
Latest release timestampThu May 14 2026 15:33:34 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/044564-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-06-18T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-06-08T23:59:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-08-10T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities/Index?p=ea3edb62-3a92-eb11-810c-005056b64545&v=2 1. Follow the above link 2. Search "25067 Supervised Family Time" 3. Register interest in this opportunity 4. View tender documents and complete "Open Procedure Questionnaire" 5. Submit response
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,500,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
14 May 2026tender044564-2026
8 Jan 2026planning001605-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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8 Jan 2026 · 001605-2026 · planning
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