Official UK procurement notice
AC2426 Home from Hospital Service
Authority: Wiltshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Home from Hospital service is a highly collaborative and coordination-focused service providing, flexible practical support (not personal care) for a period of up to 4 weeks.
The service is for vulnerable Wiltshire residents (aged 18+) who are medically fit for discharge but unable to return home due to practical barriers.
The service runs from Monday to Friday with flexibility to support over weekends when there are Hospital pressures.
The service is responsive and works effectively with a range of partners to facilitate discharges.
The successful service provider will have skills in navigating and coordinating solutions that prevent an individual being discharged home.
Tasks are likely to include:
- Presence within each of the hospitals in Wiltshire (GWH, RUH and SFT) and the community hospitals
- Meeting with individuals on wards to understand barriers to their return home and being innovative in co-producing resolutions
- Supporting individuals to pay for services or goods to support their discharge home (food, locksmiths, deep clean services)
- Signposting to advice and support around benefits and accessing emergency funding
- Linking up with the individual with community support available and other services to resolve complex but practical issues (befriending, shopping, meal services, accessing property etc)
- Home preparation before discharge, accessing property (with consent), removal of clutter, coordinating access for equipment deliveries and ensuring utilities are accessible (gas, electric and food)
- Supporting individuals with building resilience upon their return home to remain independent longer term
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Wiltshire Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Wiltshire Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 34 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 22%
2–358% / 37%
4–617% / 23%
7+25% / 18%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate57% / 32%
Within ±2%43% / 66%
Above estimate0% / 2%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 85Published estimate£1.9m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 241 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–337%
4–623%
7+18%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Mar 2026, 15:52 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Aug 2026, 11:40 BST
- Authority reference
AC2426- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-077164- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067822Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Mar 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published212 days ago30 Mar 2026, 15:52 BST
- Latest notice published76 days ago13 Aug 2026, 11:40 BST
- Market engagement62 days ago26 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Wiltshire Council – Home from Hospital
Market Engagement Event Invitation
Wiltshire Council is pleased to invite interested providers to a market engagement event ahead of the procurement of a new Home from Hospital contract, with the intention to award the contract in Spring 2027.
About the Home from Hospital Service
The Home from Hospital service is a highly collaborative and coordination-focused service providing, flexible practical support (not personal care) for a period of up to 4 weeks. The service is for vulnerable Wiltshire residents (aged 18+) who are medically fit for discharge but unable to return home due to practical barriers. The service runs from Monday to Friday with flexibility to support over weekends when there are Hospital pressures.
The service is responsive and works effectively with a range of partners to facilitate discharges.
The successful service provider will have skills in navigating and coordinating solutions that prevent an individual being discharged home.
Tasks are likely to include:
- Presence within each of the hospitals in Wiltshire (GWH, RUH and SFT) and the community hospitals
- Meeting with individuals on wards to understand barriers to their return home and being innovative in co-producing resolutions
- Supporting individuals to pay for services or goods to support their discharge home (food, locksmiths, deep clean services)
- Signposting to advice and support around benefits and accessing emergency funding
- Linking up with the individual with community support available and other services to resolve complex but practical issues (befriending, shopping, meal services, accessing property etc)
- Home preparation before discharge, accessing property (with consent), removal of clutter, coordinating access for equipment deliveries and ensuring utilities are accessible (gas, electric and food)
- Supporting individuals with building resilience upon their return home to remain independent longer term
Market Engagement Event Details
This engagement event will:
- Provide an overview of the upcoming contract
- Outline the indicative procurement timeline and anticipated procurement route
- Offer interested providers the opportunity to learn more about the service and share views on proposed future delivery models
- Include time for questions and discussion
Event Format: Microsoft Teams
- Date: Thursday 3rd September 2026
- Time: 11:00am – 11:50am
- Location: Microsoft Teams (joining link provided upon registration)
How to Register
To register your interest and receive the joining link, please email Adults Commissioning at: [email protected]
Please include the following text in the subject line:
Home from Hospital market engagement event 03/09/2026
Registration deadline: Wednesday 26th August 2026
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 44 days11 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 245 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 Mar 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Mar 2026, 15:52 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Aug 2026, 11:40 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £1,950,00013 Aug 2026, 11:40 BSTwas £1,620,833
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender