Official UK procurement notice
All Age Carers Hub · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Cheshire East Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCheshire East Council is recommissioning its support offer for carers across the borough.
The service will support adult carers who provide unpaid care and support to family members, friends and neighbours living within Cheshire East.
Under the Care Act 2014, the Local Authority has a statutory responsibility to identify, assess need and support carers. The Council recognises the vital contribution unpaid carers make to sustaining families, communities, health services and social care and is
committed to ensuring carers are recognised, valued and supported as equal partners in care.
The final scope of the procurement will be confirmed following market engagement and completion of the service design process. It is anticipated the contract will include: provision of accessible information, advice and guidance; early identification and engagement; flexible preventative support; promoting wellbeing, training and skills
development; peer and community support; digital innovation; co-production; and targeted interventions for carers facing additional barriers or inequalities.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£4,627,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Cheshire East Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Cheshire East Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. 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.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
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.
Here, local means registered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West England. Less of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 39% against 74%, n=28.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 35 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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid20% / 16%
2–380% / 34%
4–60% / 29%
7+0% / 20%
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 estimate0% / 27%
Within ±2%100% / 64%
Above estimate0% / 9%
Assess each lot i
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 #1Published estimate£4.6m
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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 382 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–334%
4–629%
7+20%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| N-compass North WestEarlier contract | Integrated Carers' Hubended Dec 2022 | — | £3.6m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 27 Aug 2026, 15:16 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 18 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
C4963- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098146- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 6 Jan 2027
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
27 Aug 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published54 days ago27 Aug 2026, 15:16 BST
- Market engagement34 days ago16 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
This event is designed for service providers seeking to understand and tender for Cheshire East Carers' Support Services.
The event will take place in-person at 10:30 - 13:00 on Monday 21 September 2026, at Council Chambers, Macclesfield Town Hall, Market Place, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 1EA.
The session will cover:
- An overview of the council's commissioning intentions and ambitions.
- Learning from co-production activities and how these have informed our approach.
- Interactive table discussions to gather feedback from the market on proposals and explore opportunities for collaboration, good practice and lessons learned that may inform final service design and procurement approach.
- Insight into the procurement approach, indicative timeline and next steps.
To register attendance at the event, please confirm by emailing [email protected] and add "Acceptance of market engagement invitation" as the subject line. Please include the following information within the body of the email:
Attendee name(s)
Job title(s)
Organisation name
A calendar invitation will be sent following receipt of your request.
Registration to join the event will close at 17:00 on 16 September 2026.
- Latest notice published4 days ago16 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 34 days23 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 77 days6 Jan 2027
- Award decision expected byin 121 days18 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 253 days1 Jul 2027
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Aug 2026- Pipeline notice published27 Aug 2026, 15:16 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Aug 2026, 11:02 BSTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published16 Oct 2026, 16:00 BSTUK3
- Deadline published: 6 Jan 202716 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
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 (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender