Official UK procurement notice
AMCV 355 - Digital Solutions to Support Unpaid Carers
Authority: Shropshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionShropshire Council is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to understand the current market for digital solutions that support unpaid carers. This engagement will help inform the Council’s future commissioning approach before any decision is made about whether to tender, use an existing compliant route, develop an alternative model, or take no further procurement action.
Shropshire Council has an established Unpaid Carer Support offer. Recently this has become an all-age offer supporting Young Carers and Parent Carers. The Unpaid Carers portal will be an online offer which will be available to Unpaid Carers 24/7 throughout the journey of their caring role. We are aware there are a large proportion of people who do not identify as an Unpaid Carer, we envisage the portal will support with that identification and will provide relevant up to date information to support families in a preventative manner.
Any proposed solution should offer the following support:
Increase the identification recognition and early interventions for unpaid Carers
Delay and reduce the need to access high-cost statutory provision
Improve accessibility to information, advice and guidance, improve links and signposting to services that are already available nationally, regionally and locally.
Support Unpaid Carers to access self-help and self-management support to reduce the need for Unpaid Carers crisis interventions.
Include access to Unpaid Carers 'self-assessment' focused on individualised outcomes
The solution should have the capacity to collect and produce relative data regarding demographics, ethnicity, age range as well as information such as when and where the portal is accessed.
CPV: Health and social work services · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Shropshire Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Shropshire 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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
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 West Midlands.
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 26 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 bid18% / 13%
2–334% / 32%
4–632% / 34%
7+16% / 21%
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 estimate20% / 42%
Within ±2%71% / 25%
Above estimate9% / 33%
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 #1CPV 48Published estimate£380k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. 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 38 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–332%
4–634%
7+21%
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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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| Mobilise Care LimitedLive contract | AMCV 318 - Digital Support Service for Unpaid Carersruns to Mar 2027 | Digital Support Service for Unpaid Carers | £221k | 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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
55% title match.
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.
55% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (55% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
AMCV 318 - Digital Support Service for Unpaid Carers — held by Mobilise Care Limited; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2027.
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
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Sept 2026, 17:29 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Sept 2026, 17:29 BST
- Authority reference
AMCV 355- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085116- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f50cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published48 days ago8 Sept 2026, 17:29 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 4 days30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
If you would like to participate in this Preliminary Market Engagement, please complete and submit the questionnaire:
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Je5p4JsJUA ↗
The engagement period ends on 30th October 2026 All information shared through this engagement will be used to inform future commissioning and will not be treated as a tender response.
This notice is intended to support Preliminary Market Engagement under the Procurement Act 2023. Participation is voluntary and does not give any supplier an advantage in any future procurement. Information gathered may be used to refine the Council’s understanding of the market, potential service models, costs, risks, data requirements and future procurement options. If the Council proceeds to a tender or other formal route, relevant information arising from this engagement will be considered and managed so that competition is not distorted and suppliers are treated fairly.
The Council is particularly interested in solutions that support early identification of Unpaid Carers, accessible information and advice, self-assessment or pre-assessment functionality, preventative support, links to local and national support, peer support, analytics, equality and accessibility reporting, safe data handling, and measurable outcomes for carers.
- Contract startsin 156 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Sept 2026, 17:29 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender