Official UK procurement notice
Ardwyn - Supported Living
Procurement agent: Aneurin Bevan University Health Board·On behalf of: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) requires a contract for the provision of supported Living Service.
We would like to invite suppliers who may be interested in providing these services and all interested parties to attend a market engagement event, to discuss our intentions and answer any questions.
Please note that costs, budgets, and specific details of the specification will not be discussed in this market engagement.
The service aims to deliver bespoke accommodation for individuals with a Learning Disability diagnosis, to provide a locally based home
for four individuals who require 24hr support.
The service will support core services in offering specialist support for people who require intensive case management to function as
independently as possible within their own accommodation. Typically, this patient group will have complex needs which traditionally
would have been delivered in more secure settings (Residential settings, Locked Rehabilitation Wards, Low Secure Units).
To ensure high quality, sustainable service delivery, the procurement of this service will be tendered through Sell2Wales in accordance with Procurement Act 2023.
CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Aneurin Bevan University Health Board buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board’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.
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. Small firms win less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 19% against 58%, n=37.
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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 Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 40 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 bid85% / 33%
2–36% / 40%
4–60% / 17%
7+9% / 10%
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 estimate67% / 29%
Within ±2%33% / 62%
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 #1CPV 85Published estimate£1.1m
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 238 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid33%
2–340%
4–617%
7+10%
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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
- 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
- 7 Sept 2026, 09:05 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Sept 2026, 16:11 BST
- Authority reference
ABU-FTS-63760- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-084187- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f304Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Sept 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published47 days ago7 Sept 2026, 09:05 BST
- Market engagement18 days ago6 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
The market engagement event details are as follows:
Date/time: Tuesday 06th October from 3.00 until 4.00pm, including 15m for questions and answers.
Location: Online via MS Teams, invite to be sent by e-mail on the afternoon by 4pm of Monday 21th September 2026.
To confirm interest and receive MS TEAMS invite please e-mail [email protected], by 12PM on Monday 21th September 2026.
Please note interest is limited to two individuals per organisation.
The ( estimated) format of the event will be as follows:
No. Item
1 Welcome and virtual introductions
2 Presentation MH & LD Division:
- Purpose - Commissioning overview
- Learning Disabilities – an introduction to our services
- Strategic Priorities
- Market Demand – what is our market now and what we predict in
future
- A new approach – Home not a placement
3 Procurement Process
- Timetable
- Sustainable Procurement
- Sell2Wales
- Bravo e-Tendering
- Contract duration
- Communications
4 Questions
5 Close
To confirm your expression of interest to attend and to receive the MS Teams link;
- Use the link that is posted on Sell2Wales portal to Email ABUHB Senior Procurement Business Manager directly: [email protected]
- Or if you don’t have access to Sell2Wales portal e-mail directly ABUHB Senior Procurement Business Manager directly: [email protected], however you will need to register afterwards with Sell2Wales after if you wish to submit a bid.
Thank you.
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 44 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 188 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 7 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Sept 2026, 09:05 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Sept 2026, 16:11 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The service aims to deliver bespoke accommodation for individuals with a Learning Disability diagnosis, to provide a locally based home for a FOUR person project individuals who require 24hr support, and not two person project as previous mentioned.
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
3 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Beneficiary authority
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Procuring entityProcurement
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