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title: "Adoption Support Flexible Purchasing System"
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# Adoption Support Flexible Purchasing System

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/adoption-support-flexible-purchasing-system-ocds-h6vhtk-069a84). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council: "Adoption Support Flexible Purchasing System". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £6,006,244. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/stockport-metropolitan-borough-council-ons-e08000007)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £6,006,244 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Children's home construction work, Other therapeutic products, Social work and related services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD3
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/adoption-support-flexible-purchasing-system-ocds-h6vhtk-069a84#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-069a84`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/adoption-support-flexible-purchasing-system-ocds-h6vhtk-069a84#tl-md)

## Description
The FPS means that there is a compliant and consistent way of commissioning the required Therapies across the members of Adoption Counts, and also does not lock out the market once awarded. The FPS will be opened up approximately every 4 months to allow for new Applicants to apply to get on to the FPS, this means the FPS is future proofed against new and innovative therapies (which may be a providers commercial advantage, or a very niche are of the market) as the providers of these new therapies and new entrants to the market are not locked out of Adoption Counts preferred contracting method for these services. It also means that Applicants who fail to place on to the FPS for poor quality of responses, but which are known to do excellent work, are not locked out of the arrangement for long as they may apply when the next applications window is opened up, and providing they rectify the issues they will be told about, they may be successful on their next application.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 33693000, 45215215, 85300000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 14/11/2026 to 13/11/2034
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F058248-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-06-19T15:36:20.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-20T12:56:45.560Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-069a84