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# Advocacy and Independent Visitor Service 2025

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/advocacy-and-independent-visitor-service-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-052bbc). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Bristol City Council: "Advocacy and Independent Visitor Service 2025". Published status: complete. Published Value: £744,000. 2 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 28 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Bristol City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/bristol-city-council-nhs-909)
- **Published Value:** £744,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 28 July 2025 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £706,810 (inc. VAT; no net value published, 2 awards)
- **Official Documents:** 7 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/advocacy-and-independent-visitor-service-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-052bbc#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-052bbc`

## 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/advocacy-and-independent-visitor-service-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-052bbc#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/advocacy-and-independent-visitor-service-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-052bbc#participate

## Description
Lot 1: Advocacy Service for Children in Care, Care Leavers and Children Subject to Child
Protection Conferences
and
Lot 2: Independent Visitor Service for Children in Care

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: Lot 1. Advocacy Service for Children in Care, Care Leavers and Children Subject to Child Protection Conferences
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Estimated Value:** £421,395
- **Description:** Advocacy is about empowering children and young people to make sure that their views and wishes are heard at all times and represented in decision making processes. The Council's vision is that all children and young people in Bristol feel listened t...
- **Contract Period:** 01/12/2025 to 30/11/2028
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 2: Lot 2. Independent Visitor Service for Children in Care
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85000000

- **Estimated Value:** £322,605
- **Description:** The service will recruit, train and support appropriate adult volunteers to act as Independent Visitors for children and young people looked after by the Authority. The Visitors role is to befriend and advise these children and contribute towards the...
- **Contract Period:** 01/12/2025 to 30/11/2028
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** Advocacy and Independent Visitor Service 2025 (LOT 1) (active)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **RECONSTRUCT (CHILDREN AND ADULT SERVICES) LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-161253`
  - Value: £400,330
  - Date: 17/09/2025

- **Award:** Advocacy and Independent Visitor Service 2025 (LOT 2) (active)
  - Award id: `2`
  - Supplier(s): **RECONSTRUCT (CHILDREN AND ADULT SERVICES) LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-161253`
  - Value: £306,480
  - Date: 17/09/2025

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** Lot 1. Advocacy Service for Children in Care, Care Leavers and Children Subject to Child Protection Conferences (active)
  - Signed Value: £400,330
  - Signed Date: 13/11/2025

- **Contract:** 2 (active)
  - Signed Value: £306,480
  - Signed Date: 13/11/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F035360-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-12-04T15:22:11.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-17T08:20:14.615Z
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